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AI controls, agent systems, banking governance, production practice. 405 essays, newest first.

  1. AI Controls Architecture

    Risk teams know risk. The open problem is designing controls for systems that are non-deterministic, probabilistic, and attackable in natural language.

  2. Governing Agents the Way Cells Govern Themselves

    Six cell biology mechanisms that reveal what the networking 'control plane' metaphor misses about governing AI agents.

  3. The Risk Without an Engineering Solution

    Every other agentic AI risk has an engineering answer. Prompt injection doesn't. That changes everything about how you design controls.

2025
  1. Why Every Tool Now Needs Two Faces - CLI for Humans, MCP for AI

    We're building parallel interfaces for the same functionality because humans and AI agents parse the world through fundamentally different grammars. The future isn't human OR machine interfaces - it's both, simultaneously.

  2. Ambient Agents: When AI Disappears Into Capability

    The real revolution isn't making AI smarter - it's making it invisible

  3. The Hidden Violence of Vague Instructions

    LLMs aren't just tools we prompt - they're forcing functions for human linguistic evolution

  4. MCP is Not a Glorified API

    The protocol that looks like plumbing but acts like philosophy - how MCP fundamentally changes the agent-tool relationship

  5. I Don't Read Documentation Anymore

    When AI can execute complex setups through conversation, learning shifts from reading documentation to observing execution.

  6. Claude Code, Analyze My Spending

    When AI coding assistants become workflow orchestrators, the most powerful compiler processes reality, not code.

  7. Claude Code Mobile is Better Than Desktop

    Walking meetings, voice input, and location changes unlock cognitive advantages desktop workflows can't access.

  8. How Claude Code Helps You Think

    AI becomes most powerful when it helps you discover what your ideas actually are. Cognitive partnership over replacement.

  9. Claude Code is Not a Coding Agent

    Why I use Claude Code for everything except coding: cognitive compiler for strategy, decisions, and understanding.

  10. Production AI vs Demos: The Intent Classification Reality Check

    Building AI systems that work in the real world requires thinking beyond the demo. What actually matters when users depend on your models.

  11. Intelligence on Tap

    When artificial intelligence becomes as mundane as running water, how does thinking itself change?

  12. What and Why Beat How

    When implementation becomes automated, human intelligence reallocates to purpose and strategy. The cognitive hierarchy inverts.

  13. The Invisible Puppeteer

    When algorithms shape decisions we think are ours

  14. Everyone Becomes Middle Management

    The automation tool that creates more coordination work

  15. AI Agents Need Passports, Not Passwords

    The authentication systems we're building assume AI agents are tools. What happens when they become economic actors with their own accounts, credentials, and legal standing?