Opinion
8 articles
Give the Agent a Smaller Keyring: Autonomy Should Be Designed Around Reversibility
The useful question is not whether an AI agent is autonomous. It is which actions it can take, which states it can alter and how cheaply a human can reverse the result.
A Human in the Loop Is Not a Control System
Human review is often added to AI products as a reassuring label, even when reviewers lack time, context, or authority. Real oversight must be engineered as an operating system for exceptions, not assigned as ceremonial responsibility.
The Best AI Products Will Stop Performing Conversation and Start Taking Responsibility
Chat was the right first interface because it lowered the barrier to entry. The more consequential question now is what happens when software is asked to carry work across time, tools, and accountability boundaries.
The Best AI Products Will Stop Performing Conversation and Start Taking Responsibility
Chat was the right first interface because it lowered the barrier to entry. The more consequential question now is what happens when software is asked to carry work across time, tools, and accountability boundaries.
The Best AI Products Will Stop Performing Conversation and Start Taking Responsibility
Chat was the right first interface because it lowered the barrier to entry. The more consequential question now is what happens when software is asked to carry work across time, tools, and accountability boundaries.
The Best AI Products Will Stop Performing Conversation and Start Taking Responsibility
Chat was the right first interface because it lowered the barrier to entry. The more consequential question now is what happens when software is asked to carry work across time, tools, and accountability boundaries.
Why the Best AI Coding Teams Spend More Time on Review, Not Less
AI has made code generation dramatically cheaper, but that does not make software easier to trust. The teams getting real leverage from coding models are reorganizing around judgment, test design, and review quality rather than celebrating raw output volume.
The Best AI Teammate Leaves Receipts
Autonomous agents will be adopted faster when they are less mysterious, not more. In software teams especially, traceability is becoming a feature every bit as important as raw capability.