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Agentic AI, Harness Engineering and Organisational Architecture
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Designing a Capability Interface
Context, Codification & Cognitive Capabilities
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Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic
Guides have aided humanity throughout history. Prehistoric civilizations understood that the sun and the moon could be used to navigate vast distances on land and the high seas. Over time, various journeys facilitated the production of maps for better planning and...
đź”® Seven lessons for managing AI agents – Exponential View
In April 2025, we shared our seven lessons for building with AI. Many still hold. But agents have changed how we work, so the lessons deserve an update. Agents can now work on harder tasks for longer. They plan, use tools, work without human oversight, and act on our...
Why Microsoft’s boss is reading up on the 1873 financial crash
We are currently experiencing a reminder of the challenges that are familiar to multiple economic meltdowns — are we condemned to relive the drama yet again? Go to Source
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree | WIRED
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose. Go to Source
Scarcity and strategy – Misreading AI the way Hollywood misread streaming
An AI-native organization needs to frame the right search space, generate many possibilities within it, cheaply eliminate weak ones, test the promising ones against reality, determine where irreversible commitment is justified and then feed the results back into the...
A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide | WIRED
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe. Go to Source
Atlassian makes its case: Context is our strategic moat | Constellation Research
Atlassian's third quarter earnings made that case that agentic AI is good for the company, SaaSpocolypse fears are overblown and context is king. Go to Source
Building Organizational Intelligence – O’Reilly
How O’Reilly Expert Intelligence generates actionable guidance using AI tools grounded in our repository of frameworks and practitioner insights Go to Source
An AI Helped Build a Full Online Game World in a Weekend.
World of ClaudeCraft began as a 48-hour experiment with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. It's now a free, living multiplayer game with a global community of contributors, seeded by an AI model that was publicly available for just three days. Go to Source
AI as an Enterprise Operating System – O’Reilly
I hadn’t heard of Dan Guido until a few months ago, when I came across the video of a talk he gave at [un]prompted, an AI security practitioners’ conference. Dan is the CEO and cofounder of Trail of Bits, a software security research and development firm that works...
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