Hi, I'm Chris Loy 👋
I'm a software engineer, data scientist, and serial entrepreneur working in the AI space. This is my website, which is mostly a collection of my writing and projects.
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The AI coding trap
28th September 2025Â AI
Context engineering
3rd August 2025Â AI
Will AI replace software?
23rd March 2025Â AI
About me ›
My background is as an engineer and data scientist. As the CTO and co-founder of Datasine, I am lucky enough to have built and exited a startup in the AI space. Today, I'm working as a startup advisor and fractional CTO. You can find me in all the usual places online:
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Projects ›
Some of my tech projects outside work:
Chromavibes
Interactive colour palette generator.

Fractavibes
Procedurally-generated interactive art.
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Series
Alongside one-off articles, I have a few longer-running series that I am writing:
Machine Learning for Engineers (2 posts) ›
Explaining computational statistics and related concepts from AI and machine learning, in terms that can be understood by the software engineers who have to put them into practice.

Distance metrics for vectors
30th June 2025Â AI
Context engineering
3rd August 2025 AISee full series →
The Newtonian Team (3 posts) ›
A series of articles thinking about software team dynamics in terms as analogous to classical Newtonian physics, to give us a shared language and make it easier to reason about how to improve productivity.

The mechanics of software engineering teams
10th November 2023Â Software
Momentum and agility in software
27th October 2024 SoftwareSee full series →
Thoughts on Leadership (2 posts) ›
Essays pondering the nature of technology leadership.

Thoughts from a Chief How Officer
8th November 2024Â Tech
Constraints and innovation
8th December 2024 TechSee full series →
My Years in Books (12 posts) ›
My annual record of the books that I read in each year since this website was started.