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Defining the new vocabulary
Essays on AI, management, and cybersecurity — and the work of knowing what things mean when the words keep shifting.
Category
AI
Automation, augmentation, agentic systems, and vocabulary shifts in the AI stack.
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 subo…
Defining: Manager
Self-Reflection: The Property That Makes Autonomy Real
A confident wrong answer looks identical to a confident right answer, until something bad happens downstream. The entire value of self-reflection lives in that gap. Which AI output in your business t…
Defining: Self-Reflection
What Autonomous Really Means
If your team hired a person whose job was to *build tools for the rest of the team and remember the good ones*, you would give them a budget, an onboarding plan, a manager, and a quarterly review. An…
Defining: Autonomous
Category
Management
People, policy, HR, organizational change, and leadership in the AI era.