<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alexandre Courtiol: Writing</title><description>Notes on engineering leadership, applied AI, and the transformations I have run.</description><link>https://alexandrecourtiol.com/</link><item><title>I was doing AI before it was cool</title><link>https://alexandrecourtiol.com/blog/ai-before-it-was-cool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alexandrecourtiol.com/blog/ai-before-it-was-cool/</guid><description>A decade of applied AI, from OCR and chatbots at a bank in 2016 to retrieval-augmented LLMs in production in 2025, and the one lesson that survived all of it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>