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AI Agents

What an AI-Native SDLC Looks Like on a Real Production System

I replaced a hosted mailbox with my own mail system on AWS, built with coding agents, and had real mail flowing in production within days. The speed was not the interesting part. The interesting part was what the human had to do so that speed was safe: define approval boundaries, insist on evidence, and keep every irreversible decision in human hands.

· 9 min read

AI Business Transformation

The Question Your AI Benchmark Cannot Answer

Leaders need to distinguish checkable conditions, contextual judgments and observed outcomes before treating an AI score as evidence of business value.

· 6 min read

AI Product Strategy

An Agent’s Spending Limit Is Part of the Product

Useful agent products need predictable spending, shared limits across the entire task, and a clear way to preserve progress when an allowance runs out.

· 6 min read

AI Business Transformation

Your Agent Team Doesn’t Need to Mirror Your Org Chart

Designing an app makes agent coordination concrete: review the design system, data model and translations, agree shared interfaces, then verify code quality and web/mobile coverage.

· 7 min read

AI Agents

Before You Give an Agent a Goal, Define Its Authority

As agents take actions across business systems, leaders need an explicit account of what each agent may access, change and commit the organization to. Useful autonomy depends on enforceable limits, evidence of completion and a workable recovery process.

· 6 min read

AI Product Strategy

Cheap Intelligence Is Changing What We Can Afford to Build

AI is changing both the effort required to create software and the economics of embedding useful intelligence in products. Personal applications, focused business tools and smaller markets become worth reconsidering, provided leaders account for quality, operating costs and ongoing ownership.

· 7 min read

AI Progress

Stop Asking Which AI Model Is Best

One model or vendor is unlikely to be the right answer for every part of an application. Technology and product leaders should select capabilities by task, evaluate the full economics, and make switching a tested property of their architecture.

· 7 min read

AI Leadership

Your Competitive Advantage Isn’t Prompt Engineering. It’s Taste.

Domain knowledge, experience, taste and judgment help leaders turn AI output into useful work today. These advantages matter precisely because they shape direction and evaluation, but leaders should prepare for agents to take on more of those responsibilities over time.

· 7 min read