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Offshorly has been recognised in the 2026 Clutch Global Awards for IT & Development. I'm proud of this one !! Clutch doesn't take our word for anything. Every rating comes from a verified conversation with a client about what it was actually like to work with us. The good bits, and the bits we'd rather forget. So this isn't really our award. It belongs to the clients who took the time to talk honestly about us. Thank you :)) And to our team in the Philippines, who earned every one of those reviews, week after week, demo after demo. We'll keep doing the unglamorous things that got us here: weekly demos, full code access from day one, and telling you early when something's going wrong. If we've worked together and you haven't left a review yet, I'd love to hear how we did.

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One of our designers had never written a line of code. Two months later, they’d built our whole team a 3D office. It has personalised avatars, rooms you walk into rather than links you click, and your colleagues in there with you. We’ve been fully remote since before Covid, with the team spread right across the Philippines. Remote work can be lonely, and we’ve spent years working on that with offsites, a culture committee and an HR-run coffee room. Those all brought us closer. This gives us somewhere to actually be together. The result is seriously impressive. And the AI is only half of why it worked. The other half is the process. They built it with Claude Code, following the AI playbooks we’ve written for our own teams. Most people who build with AI and no structure end up with a demo that looks great and falls over the moment it’s used properly. A clear process is what turned a designer’s idea into something the whole company now uses. The mantra behind the project was “the only limitation is my imagination.” After twelve years running a software company, I’d normally add budget, deadlines and the odd bug at 11pm to that list. This time I’ll let it stand. It’s changed how I think about who on a team can build things. Has anyone on your team built something with AI you never expected them to? We’ve put together a short preview below

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This headline feels wrong on so many levels. “Be afraid” — which I read as “invest or legislate so we remain the market leaders” — followed by “trust us”. Haha. No thanks. As Scott Galloway has argued, we shouldn’t expect socially beneficial or philanthropic behaviour from big tech CEOs. Their fundamental responsibility is to create value for shareholders. Regulation needs to come from governments. But the chances of meaningful action in the US feels increasingly uncertain when some of the country’s most influential voices continue to dismiss the risks. Could other governments fill the gap? Perhaps. I also suspect that making AI companies more accountable for the damage caused by autonomous or rogue agents would focus minds very quickly. Also potentially could open source fill the legislative gap by allowing a concerned community to drive safety. More profoundly, though, how should we actually feel about all of this? I work in the AI space myself, and I look at what is happening with equal parts wonder and despair. We now have agent harnesses that allow AI agents to talk to one another, execute tasks and deliver outstanding work 24/7. They can also occasionally act outside the boundaries we intended. HR is beginning to think about managing agents. Project delivery is being reshaped. And entire categories of work could potentially be automated or cannibalised. I do think some form of regulation is necessary — or, at the very least, far more robust testing and consideration before increasingly capable models are released into the world. Open source could also be part of the answer. It gives a wider community the ability to scrutinise, test and challenge these systems rather than leaving so much of the conversation in the hands of a few companies and their CEOs. And when Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders find common ground on AI, you know the politics around this technology are getting complicated. But there’s another part of this debate that I think gets far less attention. Social media AI algorithms may already be doing enormous damage. The systems deciding what millions of people see every day amplify outrage, polarise and deliver increasingly extreme narratives. They influence how we understand the world — and how we understand each other. That deserves far more scrutiny than it currently gets. Yes, we need to think seriously about AI. We need safeguards, accountability and a plan for what happens when things go wrong. But we shouldn’t ignore the technology that is already staring us in the face. And let’s not simply “trust them”.

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