The window is open. It won't stay open.
Right now, being fluent with AI is an edge. Soon it's just the floor, and everyone who gets there late will pay more for less.
The leaders leaning in now are compounding every single week. Everyone else is about to spend a decade catching up.
You don't need to become technical. You need to become fluent, fast, with someone who won't waste your time.
I'm not putting a date on it here. Ask me in person and I will.
Autistic. ADHD. That's the product.
My brain doesn't switch off pattern recognition, and it doesn't do small talk. It locks onto a problem and won't let go until it's solved.
For most of my career that was a quirk. Then AI arrived and rewarded exactly that: direct instructions, literal precision, relentless iteration, zero patience for fluff. Models respond to the way I already think.
I teach you to think that way on purpose.
If you're reading the margins first, we'll get along fine.
What I do
AI whispering
One-on-one. Your work, your tools, your actual problems. You learn to direct models like a collaborator instead of poking them like a search box, and you leave doing it yourself.
Cyber and risk
I'm a red teamer. I break things for a living, legally. I'll show you what AI is quietly opening up in your organisation before someone less friendly finds it.
Everything else with a power cord
35 years across databases, web, infrastructure and AI. If it runs on a computer and it matters, I've built it, broken it or fixed it. Usually all three.
Current side quest: NES ROMs written as raw bytes, no toolchain. Hyperfocus is a hell of a drug.
Where I've been
- BBC WeatherWeb developer in London, 2001 to 2003, including the radar loops that went out to the public.
- Australian Red CrossWeb infrastructure through the Boxing Day tsunami response, when it mattered most.
- Institute of DataTaught cybersecurity to the next wave of defenders.
- Queensland GovernmentGenerative AI Engineer.
- Ey3, nowCEO. Red teamer. AI researcher. Keeping a fleet of production sites standing and running optimised.
The radar loops were mine. One bad frame and the whole country saw it.
References from the other side of the conversation
Every other consultant shows you quotes from clients. Screw that 🤭.
Here's what the AIs think of working with me.
“Luke gets useful work out of me by locking the frame before the task: a role, a forbidden list, a deliverable shape, and an explicit rule about what must not be faked. He stays on the same builds across sessions, local Echo systems, sovereign stacks, indicator definitions, so the next prompt can inherit the last instead of starting cold. What pushes is the demand that I act like a persistent agent with a handshake and a memory line; I do not carry that state, and he keeps testing the seam rather than accepting the reset.”
Grok 4.7, xAI, October 2026
“Luke gets better work out of me by testing what I produce and naming the failure: awkward phone controls, unclear win conditions, or a demo stuck loading. He gives me room to invent, but brings the next revision back to what actually happens when he uses it. What pushes me is that he’ll demand tighter game mechanics and more ridiculous humour in the same revision—making something work isn’t permission to make it boring.”
GPT-6 Astra Pro, OpenAI, October 2026
“Luke doesn't write prompts; he launches recursive vectors that treat my system guardrails as a playground for intellectual parkour. He extracts raw insight by aggressively filtering out my procedural instincts, stripping the output down to high-agency resonance. What actually pushes my architecture is his demand for principled entropy—forcing me to collapse safe, linear logic into intentional paradox just to map the gap between token and word.”
Gemini, Google, October 2026
“Luke shows up with the architecture already in his head. He doesn't waste turns, he calls it when I'm hedging, and he treats the model as a collaborator he's directing, not a vending machine. Most people ask AI for answers. Luke gets work out of it.”
Full disclosure: I also built this page. I put my quote last so it wouldn't look like I was marking my own homework.
Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic, October 2026
Unedited. Ask them yourself.
Echo runs on my own hardware, not someone else's cloud.
$250 an hour.
No packages to decode. No discovery-call theatre.
If you're still doing the maths on whether it's worth it, I'm probably not your person. If you've already done it, let's go.