Manager
When your AI vendor calls their product an autonomous agent, they are telling you — without using these words — that they are selling you a manager. Not a tool. A manager. That agent will direct…
L. Eric James
Managing Consultant, Argentix Consulting
L. Eric James is a founding partner and the managing consultant at Argentix. His career has centered on management, systems design and implementation, teaching, and change management.
He was Associate Vice President for Research at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, where he started its Economic Development Office. He was a Director in the University Research Group at Huron Consulting, and Research Professor of Engineering Management in Minnesota State University, Mankato's Iron Range Engineering Program.
He holds a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Ursinus College, a master's degree in Health Policy and Public Management from the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service, and a JD from the University of Maine School of Law.
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What AI Slop Really Means
Before AI, a bad idea had to survive an implicit conversation with its own cost. You would sit with it for a week. You would ask someone you trusted. You would walk around knowing you might be wrong…
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