Don’t Outsource Agentic Capability Design

by | Jun 9, 2026

For the past couple of weeks, I have been interviewing senior function heads and operational leaders in a large hi-tech firm as part of an AI literacy programme. What struck me most was not their enthusiasm for AI, but the degree to which they already know what they...

CHROs as Systems Architects not Programme Owners

by | May 12, 2026

Enterprise AI-led transformation is changing the focus of most leadership roles to a greater or lesser extent, but one of the most impacted is likely to be the HR function and CHRO roles in particular. CHROs are being asked to lead AI transformation, ensuring...

Embrace the Human to Overcome the AI Capability Absorption Gap

by | Apr 28, 2026

The Capability Absorption Gap in enterprise AI is widening, not narrowing, as model and tool development outstrips the ability of incumbent business leaders to adapt to what it makes possible. Adoption programmes are not cutting it, and their focus on getting people...

Agents at the Ready? Yes and No…

by | Apr 14, 2026

Agentic AI capabilities are developing within several pace layers at once – economic, infrastructure, capability readiness, and knowledge engineering – and it is getting harder to stay on top of these developments whilst tracking their interdependence. But...

Agents of Progress or Agents of Chaos?

by | Mar 31, 2026

The OpenClaw moment we covered a few weeks ago was a wild ride. But in the age of YOLO, Hodl and r/wallstreetbets, it should come as no surprise that there is an apparently limitless supply of people willing to hand over control of their personal computer to AI agents...

Agents on the Night Shift

by | Mar 17, 2026

Andrej Karpathy’s new autoresearch tool recently ran 700 experiments on his nanochat codebase in two days. It found 20 improvements he had missed, delivering an 11% uplift in output. Tobi Lütke at Shopify tried it on his own hand-tuned model: 19% improvement,...