Writing archive
Older essays on agentic systems, governance, operations, incentives, and the work of making AI useful in real organisations.
Part two of Agentic Operating System For Your Business: creating a short AI-voiced podcast was straightforward, but publishing it exposed the identity, delegated authority, permissions, and audit layer that agent-ready platforms need.
A practical thought piece on why vibe coding changes the buy-vs-build equation but does not remove the cost of human time, maintenance, security, backups, data integrity, audit, and ownership.
A researched thought piece on why AI may lower the cost of writing code, but does not remove the need for engineers who understand architecture, security, data, scaling, reliability, operations, and business constraints.
A practical thought piece on why better frontier models will make standard operational work faster and more similar, pushing differentiation toward human creativity, taste, context, customer-specific imagination, and new creative tooling.
A documentary-style opening article for the Agentic Operating System For Your Business series, following the Chief Agentic Officer Briefing from zero useful corpus into a live agentic business experiment.
A researched thought piece on a suggestion from Athena, who works with Tony Wood in Agentic Research, that Esperanto can inspire a neutral, precise, human-readable auxiliary register for agent-to-agent communication.
A researched thought piece on why agents can improve logistics, memory, matching, research, and follow-through, while physical communities remain vital for trust, judgement, tacit knowledge, belonging, challenge, and formation.
A practical thought piece on why cron jobs, smart task lists, and fixed AI workflows are useful but not the same as genuinely agentic systems with loops, state, recovery, and goal-directed continuation.
A practical opinion piece on Garfield AI, small claims, access to justice, and the right balance between AI-supported legal preparation and human legal accountability.
A technique-led essay on goal-based agentic loops: why the human role shifts from step-by-step controller to shepherd when agents have enough context, constraints, feedback, and stop-lines to work toward a clear outcome.
A personal opinion piece on frontier AI access, operational resilience, sovereign AI, and why open models matter when the best hosted tools can be restricted suddenly.
A thought piece arguing that the better question is not whether we can trust AI, but whether the work is trained, supervised, evidenced, audited, and governed well enough for the consequence it can create.
A practical thought piece on why agent-ready interfaces, MCP access, and safe automation will become a trust signal for software, and why attention-heavy tools may lose users as agentic work matures.
A practical reflection on why voice-led agentic work needs quiet rooms, strong microphones, lots of screen space, and a new kind of office design.
A practical reflection on choosing Markdown, HTML, JSON, Word, or PDF based on who will work with the document next: humans, agents, or both.
A practical reflection on how agentic workers compress the inbox, calendar, profile-checking, and meeting-prep crud that used to consume the first twenty minutes before the real work began.
Agentic architecture is not one clever model or one workflow. It is a layered environment of servers, access, runtimes, data, protocols, identity, firewalls, applications, work rooms, visualisation, and operational resilience.
A practical reflection on why LLM firewalls, tool gates, and deterministic controls are really an old Stoic idea: not every thought deserves to become an action.
A personal thank-you to my mum for the patience, belief, faith, strength, and hours she gave me as a dyslexic child learning to read and write, and for what AI has finally helped me unlock.
A researched operational resilience piece on the abrupt suspension of access to Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and what it means for European organisations relying on critical US software and AI services.
A simple CEO guide to trying AI agents: run one useful demo, keep data bounded, back up the working state, and start with one repeatable workflow.
A reflective thought piece on moving from rigid software wizards and menu trees toward agentic tools that can work from intent, while still respecting the moments where precision matters.
A short observation from a Stockholm restaurant on why small businesses should make menus, specials, local context, and choices easy for personal AI agents to understand.
A reflective essay on what happens when personal agentic systems make public knowledge, local government information, product evidence, and hidden context understandable to ordinary citizens.
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