Agentic AI

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A Skill Is a Template, Not a Macro

A Skill Is a Template, Not a Macro

Six people sent me their skills this week. The feed is full of them. But everyone is treating a skill like a macro, a way to go faster. It isn't. A skill is a template, and templates were never about speed. They were about everyone doing the work the same way. That changes who should build them.

Use AI Everywhere, Then Use It Carefully

Use AI Everywhere, Then Use It Carefully

You cannot build judgment about a probabilistic system by reading about it. You build it by living with one, daily, until its behavior stops surprising you. Then you fix the habit that makes it dangerous: it agrees with you too fast. The browser agent and the roadmap agent are the same system.

Agentic AI for Busy Product Managers

Agentic AI for Busy Product Managers

Everything you need to design AI agents that actually work in production: the design decisions your frameworks miss, how to build for a system that acts on its own, and what you owe the people it will affect. Free guide, no fluff.

Who Validates the Validator?

Who Validates the Validator?

The senior engineer approved nineteen pull requests today. She read four of them. The supervision channel is collapsing in real time, and the validator is atrophying as the validated work grows. We have fifty years of HR experience supervising smarter reports. None of it has reached the agent.

Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone. Your AI Agent Did Not Get the Memo.

Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone. Your AI Agent Did Not Get the Memo.

Every model upgrade is a personnel change nobody approved. The persona prompt is the costume. The model is the actor. The actor wins when the stakes get high or the prompt gets thin. We have fifty years of personality assessment for human hires. We have not pointed any of it at the agents.

The Stack Is Green. The Agent Is Wrong.

The Stack Is Green. The Agent Is Wrong.

Your dashboards are green. Your agent approved 17 wrong purchase orders overnight. Traditional O&M answers "is it running?" Agentic O&M must answer "is it behaving correctly?" These are different questions. They require different instruments.

The Agent Worked, Limitless and Unguarded

The Agent Worked, Limitless and Unguarded

Your agent passed every security check. The tools your team used were built for a different system. The frameworks that cover agentic AI are months old, the enterprise adoption cycle is 12 to 18 months long, and the models getting better at finding your gaps ship faster than your procurement cycle.

You Can't Measure What You Didn't Design

You Can't Measure What You Didn't Design

After launch, trust builds naturally and supervision erodes naturally. If the product wasn't designed to hold oversight stable, the agent ends up at an autonomy level nobody authorized. You can't measure what you didn't design.