strategy - AI-First Nation

Insights | aiready | airi | strategy

Walk the Talk: How I Built AIReady.sg
ByLaurence Liew July 3, 2026July 4, 2026 Reading Time: 8 minutes

How I built AIReady.sg alone, after hours, with no grant — and the engineering decisions that made it affordable to run. A 25-industry by 6-role framework generated offline in Claude Code; 5,100 personalised lesson snippets pre-built and slotted into otherwise-static lessons, served from a database with no live model call; and a runtime report path that fetches a company’s own page and grounds itself on pre-generated research instead of paying for web search on every use. The recurring cost fell well over 90%.

Read More Walk the Talk: How I Built AIReady.sg
aiadvisory | aiap | Insights | strategy

Acquire Skills, Build Judgement: Why I’m Retiring My Avengers Slide
ByLaurence Liew June 11, 2026June 13, 2026 Reading Time: 6 minutes

For the past two years, one slide has appeared in almost every keynote I have delivered. It shows the Three Stages of AI Empowerment: Audiences liked it. I liked it. It is clear, visual, and it carried the argument from individual augmentation to agentic orchestration in three beats. I am retiring it. Not because the…

Read More Acquire Skills, Build Judgement: Why I’m Retiring My Avengers Slide
100e | aiadvisory | Insights | strategy

Generative AI Won the Headlines. Classical AI Still Runs the World.
ByLaurence Liew June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 Reading Time: 9 minutes

I recently went back through nearly every project our engineers have built since 2018 — 181 projects across 100E, AIAP, SIP, AIAP for Industry and LADP (excluding our internal projects and special customer projects) — and mapped each one by the AI technique it used. I wanted to see, with evidence rather than impression, how our…

Read More Generative AI Won the Headlines. Classical AI Still Runs the World.
Insights | 100e | ai4sme | aiap | learnai | strategy

What We Have Learned About Putting AI to Work — In Government, In Classrooms, and In People
ByLaurence Liew April 30, 2026April 30, 2026 Reading Time: 7 minutes

This week, I was part of a panel in a UK government AI learning journey on AI, and separately I was also asked to comment by a publication on the same subject. I sat down to write the responses and realised something. The answers weren’t really about Singapore. They were about patterns we’ve seen across…

Read More What We Have Learned About Putting AI to Work — In Government, In Classrooms, and In People
aiadvisory | aiap | Insights | strategy

When One Human Leads Eight AI Agents in Parallel
ByLaurence Liew April 28, 2026April 28, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

A Snapshot from the frontline of the Future of Work Earlier this week, I captured a screenshot from a working session in TAAF, the agent framework I have been experimenting with. In a single run, the framework spawned eight specialised subagents in parallel — each with a distinct role, each running independently, each reporting back…

Read More When One Human Leads Eight AI Agents in Parallel
Insights | strategy

PMETs Have the Hardest Part Already. Fresh Grads Have the Harder Problem.
ByLaurence Liew April 14, 2026April 14, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Three AI agents working in parallel. One is running a 72-hour autonomous validation loop across 9,750 lesson variants. Another is building out the aiready.sg website. A third is helping me improve TAAF, our agent framework, while I use it in production. I am not writing code line by line. I am directing, judging, correcting, and…

Read More PMETs Have the Hardest Part Already. Fresh Grads Have the Harder Problem.
aiap | 100e | Insights | strategy

How We’re Future-Proofing AIAP: Staying Seven Years Ahead in the AI Talent Revolution
ByLaurence Liew June 1, 2025June 1, 2025 Reading Time: 6 minutes

Seven years ago, when we launched the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP), people questioned our approach. Real-world projects over academic theory? Skills over degrees? Training passionate self-learners instead of computer science graduates? Today, watching the global tech industry scramble to adapt to AI-augmented workflows, I can confidently say: we were not just ahead of the curve…

Read More How We’re Future-Proofing AIAP: Staying Seven Years Ahead in the AI Talent Revolution
strategy | ai4sme | aiadvisory | Insights

Ask LLX – Your AI Transformation Mentor
ByLaurence Liew April 29, 2025May 17, 2025 Reading Time: 7 minutes

In my journey developing AI capabilities for Singapore through AI Singapore’s numerous programs, one thing has become abundantly clear: organizations and individuals need personalized guidance to navigate their AI journey effectively. This is why I am excited to announce major updates of LLX – Laurence Liew Extended – a virtual assistant designed to accelerate your…

Read More Ask LLX – Your AI Transformation Mentor
strategy | aiap | Insights | learnai

AI Coding Agent: Empowering Software Development
ByLaurence Liew March 3, 2025May 17, 2025 Reading Time: 6 minutes

Over the past few months since launching my book “AI-First Nation,” I’ve been reflecting on how rapidly the development landscape is transforming with the rise of AI coding assistants. These reflections have crystallized into some insights I’d like to share with our growing community of AI enthusiasts and professionals. The Changing Reality for Developers AI…

Read More AI Coding Agent: Empowering Software Development
strategy | 100e | ai4sme | aifn book | Insights

The Art of Finding the Right AI Use Cases for SMEs
ByLaurence Liew February 25, 2025May 17, 2025 Reading Time: 6 minutes

When SMEs approach me about adopting AI, they typically ask: “What AI use cases can I use in my business?” While it seems like a straightforward question, finding the right AI application is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. It’s more art than science, requiring an understanding of both the business context and AI readiness. Beyond the…

Read More The Art of Finding the Right AI Use Cases for SMEs