AI Agents: The Second Act
The dot-com era was not a cautionary tale about hype. It was one turn of a wheel that has been spinning for two centuries: every general-purpose technology gets adopted twice, first as an imitation of the old world, then as a rebuilding of it. The agent boom is in its first turn. History tells us, with surprising precision, what the second one looks like.
June 24
Context Engineering: The Discipline That Decides Whether Your Agent Works
An agent almost never fails because the model is not smart enough. It fails because it was handed the wrong context. The craft that decides the difference has a name now — and it's the single most important idea in AI for 2026.
June 24
The Agent-First 10: Vertical AI Agents Deployed in the Real World
Most products marketed as agents in 2026 are still copilots wearing a new label. Here is the architecture test that separates the real ones, and ten vertical agents that pass it in production.
June 17
What the AI Village Reveals About Deploying AI Agents in 2026
19 autonomous AI agents ran real-world goals for nine months. Here is what their successes and failures teach leaders about deploying AI agents safely in 2026.
June 16
AI Agents Are Not a Breakthrough: The Final Layer of a 70-Year Stack
A layer-by-layer history of AI, from Turing to autonomous agents in 2026, showing how software, deep learning, and foundation models made agency possible. A collection of 56 Quotes by famous people on AI and Agents in the last 70 years.
May 31
Agents and Compliance: Who Is Liable When an AI Agent Makes the Wrong Call
When an AI agent makes the wrong call, liability does not vanish into the machine. It follows control through the agent stack. A framework for leaders.
May 31
Agent-to-Agent: The Protocol Wars, and the One Question Buyers Keep Getting Wrong
MCP, A2A, and function calling are not competing standards fighting for survival. They are layers in an agent architecture. Here is what every buyer should understand, in plain language.
May 31
Six Patterns That Worked, One That Didn't: The Enterprise Agent in 2026
Six wins and one expensive reversal across seven industries. The pattern is not the agent. It is what the operating model did to make room for it.
May 31
The New Hiring Math: When an AI Agent Replaces a Hire
AI agents are priced by the task; hires are priced by the year. The new hiring math is about decomposing roles into components, not swapping people for software.
May 31