Ideas & Views
The gaps in agentic AI — governance, failure economics, RAG limits, SLMs, and what the hype misses.
The Shift
Jul 8, 2026
The microservices playbook — retry, circuit breaker, saga, graceful degradation — assumes deterministic services. Agents are non-deterministic autonomous actors. Here's why the patterns we know don't transfer.
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The Craft
Jul 8, 2026
Estimate the impact, likelihood, frequency, uncertainty, and recovery cost of an incorrect action. The right assessment depends on what the system can do.
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The Shift
Jul 8, 2026
A thought experiment about bounded tasks, accountability, review, and the costs of delegating work to AI systems.
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The Responsibility
Jul 8, 2026
A practical review of scope, representative evidence, oversight, recovery, and ownership before expanding an AI system’s use.
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The Responsibility
Jul 8, 2026
Evaluation should reflect intended tasks, difficult cases, user impact, and the limits of available evidence.
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The Philosophy
Jul 8, 2026
Connectivity, language, accessibility, device access, and cost vary. Validate assumptions with the people a product is meant to serve.
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The Responsibility
Jul 8, 2026
A balanced view of explicit rules, AI-assisted review, accountability, and human judgment in consequential workflows.
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The Craft
Jul 8, 2026
Before you build a multi-agent system, ask: can a single agent with good tools do the job? Multi-agent systems add coordination overhead, communication failures, and cascading errors.
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The Responsibility
Jul 8, 2026
General principles for containing unexpected behavior, assessing impact, recovering, communicating, and learning.
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The Philosophy
Jul 8, 2026
Durable digital products depend on supportability, accessibility, clear ownership, and adaptation to changing needs.
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The Philosophy
Jul 8, 2026
Stories can make unfamiliar technology approachable when paired with accurate explanations and clear limitations.
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The Shift
Archive
We're repeating the same mistake from every technology shift — taking old paradigms, adding "AI agent," and shipping it. Here are the 5 mistakes teams make when building agents.
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The Craft
Archive
Before you build an agent, ask five questions. If you can't answer all five, you don't need an agent — you need a simpler solution.
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The Shift
Archive
Each era of computing introduced a new relationship between human and machine. Agents are the fourth era — and they're fundamentally different from everything that came before.
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The Responsibility
Archive
Practical questions about observable behavior, accountability, limits, and correction in AI-enabled systems.
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Learning & Access
Learning about technology, accessibility, and the contexts in which digital tools are used.
Learning & Access
Archive
Questions to ask when a digital experience may be used with unreliable or unavailable internet access.
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Learning & Access
Archive
AI literacy includes system limitations, generated errors, data choices, and ethical questions.
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