<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>https://smcgowan.me/</id><title>Stephen Mc Gowan</title><subtitle>Talks, media and writing from Stephen Mc Gowan: applied AI consultant and founder of TrolleyRelay.</subtitle> <updated>2026-08-26T13:20:54+10:00</updated> <author> <name>Stephen Mc Gowan</name> <uri>https://smcgowan.me/</uri> </author><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://smcgowan.me/feed.xml"/><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="https://smcgowan.me/"/> <generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator> <rights> © 2026 Stephen Mc Gowan </rights> <icon>/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico</icon> <logo>/assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png</logo> <entry><title>Show me what you think we built</title><link href="https://smcgowan.me/posts/show-me-what-you-think-we-built/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Show me what you think we built" /><published>2026-08-26T00:00:00+10:00</published> <updated>2026-08-26T00:00:00+10:00</updated> <id>https://smcgowan.me/posts/show-me-what-you-think-we-built/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://smcgowan.me/posts/show-me-what-you-think-we-built/" /> <author> <name>Stephen Mc Gowan</name> </author> <category term="ai-sdlc" /> <summary>Generated customer updates, questionnaires with assumptions attached, and a solution design that audits its own citations: reading what the AI thinks you built is how you test architecture and finish the last 10 per cent.</summary> </entry> <entry><title>Engineered disagreement</title><link href="https://smcgowan.me/posts/engineered-disagreement/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Engineered disagreement" /><published>2026-08-20T00:00:00+10:00</published> <updated>2026-08-20T00:00:00+10:00</updated> <id>https://smcgowan.me/posts/engineered-disagreement/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://smcgowan.me/posts/engineered-disagreement/" /> <author> <name>Stephen Mc Gowan</name> </author> <category term="ai-sdlc" /> <summary>Four AI personas that changed nothing, one that changed everything, and what it actually takes to stop two agents on the same model from agreeing with each other.</summary> </entry> <entry><title>You can't install an AI-SDLC</title><link href="https://smcgowan.me/posts/you-cant-install-an-ai-sdlc/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="You can&amp;apos;t install an AI-SDLC" /><published>2026-08-11T00:00:00+10:00</published> <updated>2026-08-11T00:00:00+10:00</updated> <id>https://smcgowan.me/posts/you-cant-install-an-ai-sdlc/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://smcgowan.me/posts/you-cant-install-an-ai-sdlc/" /> <author> <name>Stephen Mc Gowan</name> </author> <category term="ai-sdlc" /> <summary>Why an AI-enabled software development lifecycle (SDLC) has to be grown, not installed: eighteen weeks of evidence from one human directing AI agents on a production system.</summary> </entry> </feed>
