I use LLMs daily. Claude Code is my daily-driver for engineering work and it’s in my IDE terminal constantly. I use Claude Projects for thinking through problems and working through complex decisions. Google’s NotebookLM has become my tool of choice for collecting and summarising research. I use Gemini for image generation. I’ve tried Cursor and Windsurf for IDE-integrated AI, and tend to reach for Cursor on personal projects alongside Claude Code. I’ve had several looks at ChatGPT over the past year and keep finding it less compelling each time.

Since I started working for Corelogic in 2005, I only spent the first year working in the office every day. I lived in London for that year, within walking distance of the office, in a nice, albeit small 1 bed flat. That flat probably cost around the same price as our4 bed semi in Nottinghamshire (and that was years ago). But I digress. Anyway, I didn’t enjoy living in London too much. It’s a nice place to visit, but it will always be there to visit. That doesn’t mean I had to live there. I found it too noisy, expensive and crowded for me. It’s still noisy and crowded, but even more expensive than it used to be. There’s a lot of good things about it, but I am not a particularly outgoing person, and I felt there was a lot of chaos there that you have to put up with day to day. Since I moved back to Notts, I have worked remotely, in various different arrangements, and have been doing that for the last (almost) 9 years.