Hey, I'm Matt.

Cloud consultant by trade, AI tinkerer by obsession, surfer by priority. I spend my mornings in the ocean on the Sunshine Coast and my working hours as a consultant in the Microsoft ecosystem — Azure, Security, and Modern Work. The AI stuff? That's what I do on the side.

This is where I share what I'm learning along the way.

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February 2026 19 min read

I Built an AI Tool That Does My Job Better Than Me. I'm Not an AI Guy.

After months of building AI-powered analysis tools for Microsoft cloud security, I discovered that everything the industry teaches about prompting is correct — but only for half the problem. Here's what nobody talks about: when structure kills reasoning, and what to do instead.

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