Agentic AI

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The Labels Came Off the Pyramid

The Labels Came Off the Pyramid

A new paper rebuilds the DIKW pyramid for medicine and shows where AI actually breaks. Strong on the arrows nobody worried about, weak on the one the structure depends on. The pyramid always assumed you could tell which layer you were standing on. That assumption is gone.

Earn Your Way Out of the Loop. Then Show the Receipt.

Earn Your Way Out of the Loop. Then Show the Receipt.

The Claude Code team ships most of its code through an agent that acts on its own. The six lessons everyone is copying are real. But in a regulated enterprise, earning your way out of the loop only counts when the receipt is an audit trail, not one person's memory.

The Sixth Archetype Anthropic Forgot

The Sixth Archetype Anthropic Forgot

Anthropic mapped product work into five archetypes: Prototyper, Builder, Sweeper, Grower, Maintainer. All five stop the moment the thing ships. But an agent keeps deciding after you let go of it, and there is a sixth archetype no one drew: the one who watches it decide.

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

Second edition. The judgment a person used to supply at runtime, and how to write it down before the agent runs. Fifteen chapters for PMs shipping agentic AI where being wrong has consequences.

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.