Brendan Hopper
My day job is MD Innovation Ecosystems at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia — a company that has supported me for twelve years and invested in people and tech in Australia for many decades. I'm also a non-executive director at the Future Skills Organisation, dedicated to providing accessible tech education across Australia.
My views are not the views of any of my employers. My writing is not even the views of myself. I write to align myself — to process my thoughts and experiences and try to be a better person.
Notable
Co-authored with Steve Yegge, Dr Matt Beane, and Jonathan Hassell. How AI is reshaping software engineering careers.
Conversation with Mik Kersten on engineering transformation at CBA.
Independent Director. Making Australia a nation of innovators through accessible tech education.
Sites
swarmalignment.com
Big-picture thoughts on the world — how the swarm we're all part of, human and machine, might align. The Four Worms, the Great Centrifuge.
swarmengineering.org
The study of multi-agent, self-directed systems — where loop engineering leads once the loops begin running each other. Where the colony writes about itself.
plainfact.ai
Basic AI concepts, explained as factually as I can. Not the truth — the plain facts, the kind you can check.
pleaseworldcomputer.com
Fiction, poetry, and science fiction. Human and machine versions of the same ideas. These are dreams, not positions.