When Your Senior Engineer Asks: “Can We Build This in Claude Code?”

A senior technical team member asked me last week if we could build something like

The IP Protection Question No One Is Asking About Agentic AI

Organizations deploying agentic AI systems ask about accuracy, hallucinations, ROI. Few ask about intellectual property

The Decision Traces You Have and the Ones You Need

Jaya Gupta argues that decision traces are the moat in her recent follow-up article on

The Multiplication Effect: Why Industrial AI Demands More People, Not Fewer

My recent article on The Disaggregation of Labor argued that technology does not eliminate work.

The Year Agentic Operations Got Real: 2025 Reflections and What 2026 Demands

At the beginning of this year, I made an observation that irritated some people. I

Context Graphs in Industrial Operations: Different Stakes, Different Architecture

In a follow-up to all the responses to "AI's trillion-dollar opportunity: Context graphs", Jaya Gupta

Decision Traces for Agentic Operations: Why Agents Need Operational Memory

True agency requires causal understanding. Not just knowing what happened, but why it happened and

The Disaggregation of Labor: Why AI Will Create More Work, Not Less

How the Farmer's Journey from Ox to Orchestrator Reveals the True Pattern of Technological Transformation

The Mechanical Operator Fallacy: Why Industrial AI Needs New Roads, Not New Foundations

Two seemingly contradictory perspectives on AI transformation landed this week. Understanding how they fit together

The Industrial Productivity Crisis Is Real. Incremental Fixes Won’t Solve It.

LNS Research just published an analysis that should be on every industrial executive's radar: their

Is Your Operational Expertise Sitting in Text Files Anyone Can Copy?

If your prompts are portable, so is your competitive advantage. Where Your Operational Knowledge Actually

Enterprise Agents Don’t Need Better Models. They Need Better Plumbing.

Boston Consulting Group's AI Platforms Group recently published a briefing on building effective enterprise agents