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Blair is the Chief Engineer of Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, overseeing nine to ten teams building the AI platform that powers Australia’s largest bank and its millions of customers. Including me, a Dollar Mite since primary school.

His origin story is not what you would expect. He was a self-described hacker who grew up clicking through every system configuration setting he could find on his mum’s school computers after hours. That curiosity took him from building on GPT-2 before ChatGPT even existed, to the heart of one of Australia’s most important institutions.

In this episode we get into:

• The litmus test he uses to spot bad AI use immediately

• Why context matters more than prompting

• What an AI platform actually is and why your company probably needs one

• Why software engineers need to take more accountability for what they build

• The single security mistake most people are still making

• Why it is absolutely not too late to figure AI out for yourself

Practical, candid, and full of things you can action today.