TL;DR: As Scam Prevention Frameworks roll out, telecom and financial institutions face a massive operational challenge: complying with extensive obligations across six principles while adversaries use automated tooling to operate at machine speed. In this …

TL;DR: When my family and friends picture scam prevention, they assume a single magic box labelled “Filter”. But as technologists working under Australia’s new Scam Prevention Framework (SPF), our job is breaking that assumption down into …

TL;DR: I used pi.dev to verify my tax return by co-designing a 7-stage SKILL.md with a Visual-Reasoning Loop. The agent found a missing investment-loan statement that my accountant had missed—proving that deterministic tasks need deterministic procedures, …

This is a true story.

A friend’s wife received a call from someone claiming to be from the ATO. The caller was aggressive and convincing. He told her that her husband had been arrested for tax fraud and, because of the “seriousness” of the case, the family …

Scam!

We’ve all seen the headlines. It’s usually a variation of the same story: the “good guys” chasing the “bad guys,” with the villains always appearing to be three steps ahead. For a long time, I never really questioned who those …

“I am so disappointed. You wasted $0.35 and actually broke my blog completely.”

“No, that did not fix the blog. Can you roll back all the changes you just made?”

“You deleted my draft write-up for Post#4. Where is it?” …

I can’t remember how many times I have faced the same dilemma every time I have started working on a new program -

• How do I quickly understand what has been built so far?
• How do I know which systems are talking to each other?

Knowing what exists …

This long weekend, I finally managed to do something I have been putting off for months: I started a digital diary (blog).

In the past, I’ve shared my thoughts on LinkedIn, but I’ve realised that content on LinkedIn is a nightmare to manage. I …

Scams are real, and they’re everywhere#

Who hasn’t heard of scams? Many of us have. For most of the lucky ones, it’s just news we’ve heard. It’s not close or personal. But they are very real - In Australia in 2024, people lost …

My two daughters have distilled my entire career down to a single sentence:

“Dad gets paid to talk and draw boxes.”

They aren’t wrong.

I have been very fortunate to live in the space between a problem and a solution. Usually that space is …