Chris.Jack

Writing & speaking

Thinking out loud.

Occasional notes on design leadership, AI, Fractional and building, plus the podcasts and talks I turn up in.

ArticlePracticeAI24 August 2026

Building got cheap. Judgement is the bottleneck now.

The loop I run every time, why context beats prompts, how a tool earns its place, and the three things I got wrong.

ArticleFractional24 June 2026

Your AI feature shipped. Nobody’s using it.

Most AI features fail on adoption, not the model. What senior design ownership actually changes.

ArticleCareerAI8 April 2026

Why I also build software as well as design it now

I still design, most of the week. What changed is that the work no longer stops at the handoff.

ArticleBuild-in-public10 August 2025

What AI changed about how I build software this year

Twenty years of building software and the last twelve months are the biggest shift I’ve been through. The honest account of what’s different day to day.