Will Hackett
Australian software engineer living in London. I build products, cook things and drink far too much wine. Sometimes I write about AI. Sometimes I ski. Co-founded flowstate to build the future of human and AI workforces.
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- Boring is better: Pushing 67k telemetry events per second into Postgres
- Amortising a hallucination
- AI agents won't kill your system of record. Your rate limits will.
- Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillance
- Why I moved to Microsoft 365
- Digital sovereignty requires funding, not just adoption
- The best engineering teams can turn on a dime
2025
- Agentic coding is changing the engineering workforce—just not how you think
- Reclaiming the commons: the case for an accountable internet
- Moore's Law for AI is officially dead
- Big teams, small team energy
- Search kind of sucks now
- How do you explain the £20M engineering spend?
- Fixing email spam with AI: When traditional filters aren't enough
- Pragmatic: Lessons from building (and winding down) an AI startup