Archive - Richard Lowe - The Operations Room

They Hired Us to Settle an Argument, Not to Answer a Question

Before you commission a technical assessment, find out what decision it is going to be used in.

21 hrs ago • Richard Lowe

I Hired Someone Who Had Never Written a Line of the Language

A resume and an interview tell you what somebody says they can do.

Sep 18 • Richard Lowe

One Program, Any Number of Customers

Software that keeps customer rules in code has a ceiling, and you find the ceiling at the worst possible time.

Sep 15 • Richard Lowe

The Client Sent Us the Wrong Source Code

Asking for something is not the same as verifying you got it, and the gap between those two costs more project time than any other mistake I have…

Sep 11 • Richard Lowe

We Built Fraud Detection Before Anyone Called It AI

Every security vendor now sells anomaly detection with AI in the name.

Sep 8 • Richard Lowe

I Spent Weeks Debugging Code That Should Have Been Deleted

Developers using AI tools merge far more code than they used to and their organizations ship at about the same rate.

Sep 4 • Richard Lowe

The Water Kept Flowing When Nobody Was Watching

Nine out of ten enterprise AI agent pilots never reach production.

Sep 1 • Richard Lowe

August 2026

The Operations Room

Two decisions a week from thirty-three years running enterprise technology.

Aug 25 • Richard Lowe

July 2026

The Affordable Ghostwriter Problem

If you have gone looking for an affordable ghostwriter, you already know the punchline.

Jul 10 • Richard Lowe

Will You Write My Book for Free?

People ask me to ghostwrite their book for free more often than you would guess.

Jul 8 • Richard Lowe

How Ghostwriting Actually Works, Start to Finish

Ghostwriting is hiring a professional writer to create a book credited to you.

Jul 6 • Richard Lowe

How to Choose Your Book Topic: A Self-Test

After ghostwriting 54+ books, I can tell you the topic is rarely the real problem.

Jul 3 • Richard Lowe

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