--- title: "AI + Work — Rafe Blandford" description: "AI and the future of work — what it changes for products, teams and ways of working." canonical: "https://rafeblandford.com/tag/ai-work/" describedby: "https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt" updated: "2026-10-06" --- # AI + Work — Rafe Blandford > AI and the future of work — what it changes for products, teams and ways of working. 14 posts, newest first. The Markdown form of [AI + Work](https://rafeblandford.com/tag/ai-work/); for the whole site see [llms.txt](https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt). - [Writing with AI, in my own voice](https://rafeblandford.com/writing-with-ai-in-my-own-voice.md) — 2026-10-06 · Explaining how I write with AI and the creation of voice and deslop skills. - [Treat your operating model as a product](https://rafeblandford.com/treat-your-operating-model-as-a-product.md) — 2026-10-03 · Your operating model is a product. Treating it as one lets you move faster and makes people happier. - [Why does AI feel so different in 2026?](https://rafeblandford.com/why-does-ai-feel-so-different-in-2026.md) — 2026-09-09 · Why 2026 feels like a tipping point to some and gradual change to others, explained with three benchmarks and two stories from the coalface. - [Making product ideas visible before they look finished](https://rafeblandford.com/making-product-ideas-visible.md) — 2026-09-07 · I built an agent skill to shorten the loop between talking, visualising and revising, while keeping product judgement where it belongs. - [Loops within loops](https://rafeblandford.com/loops-within-loops.md) — 2026-07-15 · AI doesn’t just accelerate product development; it changes the economics of feedback loops. - [Living on the agentic frontier](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-agentic-edge.md) — 2026-06-30 · Point capable agents at your own data for long enough and you find out which bits of the hype are real. - [What a personal AI system costs](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-what-it-costs.md) — 2026-06-29 · The real cost numbers for RafeOS, mid-build, and some decisions made along the way. - [Agentic product development, up close](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-collaborative-ai-engineering.md) — 2026-06-29 · What building RafeOS with AI taught me about compression, discipline and judgement. - [Why I built a personal operating system](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-why-i-built-personal-os.md) — 2026-06-18 · The why of RafeOS, the agentic edge, AI engineering, and what it's taught me so far - [A front door for people and machines](https://rafeblandford.com/a-front-door-for-people-and-machines.md) — 2026-06-18 · Two audiences now: the bifurcation the web and how this site looks to address this. - [Lessons in AI Adoption](https://rafeblandford.com/lessons-in-ai-adoption.md) — 2026-06-15 · The UK Government's AI Adoption Plan for the creative industries: eight strong recommendations, an eye-catching stat, and what to take from them. - [Notes from SXSW London 2026](https://rafeblandford.com/notes-from-sxsw-london-2026.md) — 2026-06-08 · Notes from SXSW London 2026: redesign before technology, the reinvention window, and a greater-than-usual ambiguity around the AI hot-topics. - [Claude Code as a migration partner](https://rafeblandford.com/claude-code-as-a-migration-partner.md) — 2026-04-04 · Two days, three sites, 20 years of content moved off a dying server, with Claude Code as primary operator. What the collaboration actually looked like. - [Optimising an old codebase for modern web standards](https://rafeblandford.com/optimising-a-decade-old-codebase.md) — 2026-04-02 · Taking the archive's decade-old codebase from Lighthouse scores in the 70s to modern web standards before freezing the pages forever. --- [Homepage](https://rafeblandford.com/index.md) · [All writing](https://rafeblandford.com/writing.md) · [llms.txt](https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt)