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Barry Buck·17 June 2026·1 min read
The AI solved the problem. The paperwork didn't. Barry Buck explores what happens when the future arrives and compliance arrives five minutes later.

The dragon wasn't the problem.

Finding the sword wasn't the problem either.

The problem started when somebody decided who was allowed to hold it.

Barry Buck's latest article isn't really about AI, export controls or compliance.

It's about something far more familiar.

Finding the solution.

Then watching bureaucracy arrive before the victory parade.

A story about dragons, software, governments, modern AI and the strange reality that sometimes the biggest obstacle isn't the problem you're trying to solve.

It's the paperwork waiting on the other side.

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Written by
Barry Buck
Founder, SauceCode

Barry runs the operator voice for SauceCode from Johannesburg. Twenty years of watching businesses scale manual work instead of systems. Writes about the gap between the tools companies buy and the execution they actually need.

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