Tim Do · Technology leader, builder and writer
I’m Tim, a Wellington-based technology leader working across strategy, delivery and AI adoption. This is where I connect that work with hands-on experimentation: working software, creative projects and long-form writing about what AI makes possible, what it changes and where human judgement remains essential.
Perspectives
Long-form essays about AI at work, the evidence behind its answers and the human judgement that cannot simply be delegated.
Essay · AI and work
AI can make polished output cheap without making the work complete. This essay follows the verification, repair and accountability that then move into somebody else’s calendar, and asks leaders to measure the total time to a trusted outcome.
“The work did not disappear. It changed owners.”Read the essay ↗
Essay · AI and validation
A fluent AI can interpret a one-sided account brilliantly while witnessing nothing beyond the story it was given. The piece separates helpful challenge from independent evidence, and argues for using AI to interrogate a case rather than deliver the verdict.
“Coherence is not corroboration.”Read the essay ↗
Selected practical work
Working prototypes that test how AI can help without making the decisions, evidence or trade-offs disappear.
Complex work / plain view
AI project tool · Working private/local alpha
Explores whether AI-assisted building can remain legible and supervisable. It turns a rough idea into an inspectable plan, shows Codex activity and human decision points, and keeps evidence attached to what is called finished. Driftline 10 is its playable proof of concept.
Explore Vibe Companion ↗
Shared home / reviewed change
Shared-life product · Active private web alpha
Explores how software and optional AI can reduce household coordination without quietly replacing household judgement. Sources remain visible, material changes wait for review and the public page is a product window rather than a public trial.
Explore Nest ↗The less formal part of the practice: experiments people can use, play, test or hear. The serious work and the strange work sharpen each other.
Drink maths / human unknown
Interactive data toy · Live
A pub-table model for comparing pours, ethanol and timing while refusing to pretend that a human vomiting threshold is knowable.
Open the model ↗
Your drinks / the long goodbye
Interactive caffeine calculator · Live
A playful NZ-focused calculator for plotting drinks, exploring caffeine half-life and seeing what may still be hanging around at bedtime. Estimates, not a sleep prediction.
Plot the curve ↗
6 lots / build the skyline
Procedural building game · Live prototype
A deterministic skyscraper workbench where site conditions, foundations, budgets, façades and commissions turn one tower into a six-lot career.
Open the workbench ↗
15 tracks / made with Vibe
Top-down arcade racer · Live
Fifteen tracks, three surfaces, tight keyboard handling and mastery rewards. Built with Vibe Companion from brief to finished game.
Race Driftline 10 ↗
One wicket / time it
Browser cricket game · Live
One wicket, varied bowling and increasingly serious grounds, bats and kits. Point, time the shot and survive.
Play Slogger ↗
Made for Bella / make it yours
Dress-up & runway game · Live
A dress-up and runway game I made for my daughter, with hundreds of combinable pieces, solo and two-player play, studio activities, photos and saved favourite looks.
Enter the studio ↗
Closed test / report for duty
Physics party game · Closed pre-alpha
Run, collide, ragdoll and respawn inside a continuously rotating ring-world while the floor, the crowd and the performance targets keep moving.
Enter the wheel ↗
18 tracks / play loud
Music showcase · Live
An 18-track showcase with mood filters, playable covers and a visualiser, turning domestic life into rave lore.
I’m a Wellington-based senior technology leader with more than 20 years’ experience. My career has included CIO and multinational technology leadership, public-sector strategy and governance, international payment-processing platforms and cybersecurity.
My current work includes enterprise AI adoption and governance: helping an organisation use fast-moving capability deliberately, with clear ownership, evidence and human judgement still attached.
Outside the day job I build software, games and music projects, then write about what those experiments reveal. That hands-on practice keeps strategy connected to how technology actually behaves.
If you want to talk about technology leadership, responsible AI adoption, a prototype or something difficult that software might make simpler, send me a note.