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  <!-- AI Sustained · ai-sustained.com                                -->
  <!-- Practical, evidence-led writing on AI adoption, capability,    -->
  <!-- agentic workflows and sustainability — by Kevin Clubb,         -->
  <!-- senior business analyst, UK.                                   -->
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  <!-- ===== HOMEPAGE ============================================== -->
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    <loc>https://ai-sustained.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>AI Sustained — AI that survives Monday morning. Practical, evidence-led writing on AI adoption, capability, agentic workflows and sustainability by Kevin Clubb.</image:caption>
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  <!-- ===== ISSUE 000 · Death of the IT Dept ====================== -->
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    <loc>https://ai-sustained.com/articles/death-of-the-it-dept/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The death of the IT Department</image:title>
      <image:caption>How AI is collapsing traditional IT roles into a single AI-native function — the foundational essay that started AI Sustained.</image:caption>
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  <!-- ===== ISSUE 001 · The AI Competency Pyramid ================= -->
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    <loc>https://ai-sustained.com/articles/ai-competency-pyramid/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-20</lastmod>
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    <priority>0.9</priority>
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      <image:title>The AI competency pyramid</image:title>
      <image:caption>Where 20.6 million UK workers actually sit. 14 levels of AI competency, from non-user to frontier model researcher. 95% sit at the bottom four levels.</image:caption>
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  <!-- ===== ISSUE 002 · AI-curious? =============================== -->
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    <lastmod>2026-04-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>AI-curious? This is the bit no one tells you</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stop typing questions into AI. Start pasting things in. The free habit that beats any productivity app.</image:caption>
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  <!-- ===== ISSUE 003 · Four labs. Seven days. ==================== -->
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    <loc>https://ai-sustained.com/articles/four-labs-seven-days/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Four labs. Seven days. No clear winner.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mapping the April 2026 AI frontier — Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4, Grok 4.20 — and what it means for enterprise strategy.</image:caption>
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  <!-- ===== ISSUE 004 · Vibe coding capability ==================== -->
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    <loc>https://ai-sustained.com/articles/vibe-coding-capability/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Vibe coding capability</image:title>
      <image:caption>Three skill sets collapsed into one prompting loop. What vibe coders actually do all day, and where they sit on the AI competency pyramid.</image:caption>
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  <!-- ===== ISSUE 005 · A British Prompt ========================== -->
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    <loc>https://ai-sustained.com/articles/A-British-Prompt/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>A British prompt</image:title>
      <image:caption>How politeness, qualifiers and British understatement quietly change what AI models produce.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-19</lastmod>
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