Token Economy: What Every AI Dollar Actually Buys
If your AI agent runs 500 calls a day and you have never looked at the token count of a single one, how confident are you that your "cost-saving automation" is actually saving money?
Defining: Token Economy
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
What an Agentic Workflow Actually Is
Look at the last ten recurring tasks someone on your team complained about. How many of them have inputs you could write on one line, a tool set you could list on a napkin, and an output format you c…
Defining: Agentic Workflow
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…
Defining: AI Slop