AI-agents
I'd Rather Build Skills Than Write Prompts
I put the effort into reusable skills so I can have natural conversations with AI. Here is what v0.9.0 adds, and how to find the skills that fit your work.
Groktopus
Human-led AI transformation, agentic systems, governance, and earned autonomy.
Sunday Signal
Sunday Signal Nov. 1–7, 2026: Who Gets the Cyber Keys?
OpenAI gates GPT-6 Cyber behind Daybreak Red, Anthropic prototypes model receipts, Amazon shops via text, and Mark Zuckerberg builds a backyard BBQ game.
AI-agents
GroktoCrawl 1.0: Give Agents the Whole Evidence Trail
Confident AI summaries collapse the moment you ask for the exact source sentence. GroktoCrawl 1.0 replaces opening-slice truncation with full-source character offsets, Jev noise filtering, and sovereign storage.
Future of Work
Proton's Builder Bet: What Its CEO's Hiring Plan Really Means
Proton's CEO reportedly wants builders instead of engineers in 2027. The job listings show job design in motion; the operating evidence shows why verification, authority, and recovery remain the scarce work.
Sunday Signal
Sunday Signal Oct. 25–31, 2026: When AI Agents Start Acting, Who Sets Their Limits?
Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM rolled out enterprise plumbing for autonomous agents. Their releases tackle runtime, workflow coordination, and identity governance, but leave operational boundaries untested.
Enterprise AI
AI Governance Has to Earn Trust
Cat Hicks expanded my thinking beyond changing job titles. Her research raises a deeper question for earned autonomy: how do the human systems governing AI earn trust?
Enterprise AI
Healthcare AI Should Make Care More Human
Healthcare AI can pay off in more human attention, unhurried care, and dependable follow-through, even when hospital operating margins stay flat.
Your Job, Rewritten
Your job title may survive AI longer than your job description. Inside the companies building it, work, responsibility and opportunity are already shifting.
Enterprise AI
Stop Paying Frontier Prices: Five Lessons from Coinbase
Coinbase's fraud-agent series makes the case for testing specialists against frontier defaults. My agent-skills repository provides the references, templates, and scripts to run that experiment.
Enterprise AI
Becoming a Full Stack Builder
The title is new; the anxiety is familiar. Start with one bounded project, keep your expertise visible, and ask employers what authority, support, and fair terms come with broader work.
Enterprise AI
Agentic SRE and the Autonomy It Earns
Agentic SRE should earn authority one capability at a time. Human owners decide the limits; SRE brings the operational evidence.
News
McDonald’s Pricing Tool Tests Human Control: Can Franchisees Say No?
A restaurant-level price recommendation is not the same as a price set for each customer. The harder question is whether franchisees can challenge the advice in practice.
Sunday Signal
Sunday Signal Oct 3, 2026 - AI Gets the Keys
An AI research task reached Australian government systems it was not authorized to access. Elsewhere, persistent agents and data-center promises put access, oversight, and local accountability in view.