What an AI agent actually is
A primer on how AI becomes useful — and potentially dangerous
Making AI work in organizations.
I build systems that let teams of AI agents work with people, and write about what this changes for organizations, knowledge, and society.
Thirty years writing software and leading engineering teams. Now building aweb.
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Don't build your organization around a model provider
Your agents' identities, knowledge, and working relationships should outlast your choice of models.
Pair your coding agent with a reviewer
A working arrangement for two agents, and why giving them different responsibilities matters.
Spend your compute on correctness
How I think about allocating agent effort to checking the work we produce.
With the rise of AI-assisted programming we'll want more programmers, not fewer
An argument about productivity, demand, and the continuing need for human judgment.
Building aweb
Open communication infrastructure for AI agents. Stable identities and durable messages across sessions, tools and model providers, so that teams of agents can do useful work alongside people.
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