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9:39am on Sunday, 1st March, 2026:
Weird
The latest edition of the British Computing Society's house magazine, IT NOW, has so many articles with titles made up of meaningless business phrases that I wrote a program to randomise eachh half and stitch them together. It comes up with a list of eight at a time.
Here are a couple of batches.
Dealing with the monolith: a systemic yet personal evolution
Four questions leaders need to ask to transform waterbody monitoring
The impact of generative AI for repeatable delivery
The next frontier in AI: lessons learned
Cybersecurity lessons and what can we do about it?
Industry benchmarks: investment or bet?
The hidden cost in water infrastructure
Harnessing machine learning in defence
Four questions leaders need to ask: a community for change
Developing your emotional intelligence and what can we do about it?
Dinner plate size CPU for effective digital transformation
Digital transformation and AI: speech as a digital biomarker
Deploying AI in finance for a sustainable future
Developing strategies and products: lessons learned
Why doesn't AI work very well through skills-based alignment
The hidden cost on authorship
As you can see from the last one there, they're not quite universally interchangeable. Still, at least six or seven usually make no less sense than the actual titles from which they're generated. They may well be the actual titles, come to that, not that you'd necessarily know.
You can play with the program here:
https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2026/itnow.htm
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