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
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
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.
Enterprise AI
Fiverr’s AI Pivot Is Unproven: Who Gets to Move Up?
Fiverr is chasing bigger projects as buyers leave. AI is shifting freelance demand, but its gains don’t reach every worker.
Enterprise AI
Policy as Code Isn't Enough: Prove the Control Ran
A policy file describes intent, not what happened in a live run. Follow Bernstein’s evidence paths to see what reaches the live route, what gets recorded, and what still requires human judgment.
Enterprise AI
Jev and Laya Put Probability Where Enterprise Workflows Need It
Rules work until messy humans touch them, and generative models ramble when code needs an exact answer. Jev and Laya turn that gap into a measurable, governable component.
research
Mozilla's 6 Open Source AI Recommendations Every Business Should Be Watching
Mozilla's new report turns the open-weight AI debate into six practical recommendations for businesses that want the freedom to change models without surrendering the harness, state, permissions, or economics around them.
Enterprise AI
Digital Twin Engineering: Test APIs Fast Without Blowing the Bill
Before an agent spends against a paid API, rehearse the workload locally. This Coffee Finder demo shows the cost, evidence, and limits leaders need to see.
AI Strategy
You Want a Software Factory? Ready Your Repositories First.
Coding models are not software factories. Repository context, bounded authority, verification, recovery, and feedback turn generated code into trustworthy change.
AI Strategy
When AI Spending Caps Become Permission Systems: Control Runaway Tokens Without Capping Experimentation
CTOs need AI spending controls. The wrong control surface can make engineers absorb production uncertainty and suppress the experiments that create leverage.
Enterprise AI
QA Is Becoming the Control System: Test the Factory, Not Just the Code
When coding agents accelerate implementation, QA must move upstream. Put quality professionals at the center of intent, authority, evaluation, and learning.
Enterprise AI
Stop Asking for MCP: The Better Agent Standard Is Already Here
ScaleKit tested MCP against command-line interfaces across 75 benchmark runs. MCP consumed 4–32× more tokens. Agent Skills offer a better standard.