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18 posts tagged with "decision-intelligence".
Operators, Not Creators
Industrial autonomy needs less creativity, not more. It also needs to stop betting on the model.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
You Should Rent the Model. You Must Own Everything Around It.
Satya Nadella argues that the lasting advantage in AI sits in the learning loop a company builds around the model: the system that holds how the company works and improves every time it runs. He is right.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Who Controls the Orchestration Controls the Plant
Gartner just called the placement of agent orchestration the most consequential architecture decision of the decade. In industry, the stakes are physical.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
"Software Doesn't Reflect." What an Operator LLM Agent Actually Does in an Observe, Reflect, Plan, Act Loop
I hear this from skeptics a lot, and they are half right. The answer is grounded in cognitive science: the reasoning is real but non-deterministic, and the decision belongs to a deterministic layer.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The harness is the product: how XMPro avoids frontier-model lock-in
Nate Jones's GLM 5.2 video is really about model lock-in Nate B.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Agents Are Context Hungry
The better the agent, the more it demands of the context beneath it. Build that foundation now, open and governed, before you scale the agents on top of it.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
You Don't Want an Operator With Four PhDs
An engineer at a large manufacturer showed me a dashboard last week. Sharp work, built fast, and he was rightly proud of it.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Agent Skills Are the New Spreadsheets
A week or so ago I joined a call with the IT division of a large organization who thought they had figured out its agent strategy. They walked me through it with some pride: AI assistants loaded with skill files written by their subject matter experts, ready to answer questions across the business.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Decision Engineering Comes Before Agent Design
List the decisions first. Then decide, for each one, how it should be made, who holds the authority and what evidence it needs.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Intelligence Is Fungible. Operational Context Is Not.
For a model of equivalent performance, the price of intelligence falls about ten times a year. That figure is a16z's own, from their analysis of inference pricing.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Six Things Pharma Should Prepare to Demonstrate About an AI Agent
The draft European rules for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine manufacturing are blunt about language models. Annex 22 to the European Union (EU) Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, published for consultation in July 2025, says generative AI and large language models "should not be
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Should Multi-Agent Systems Negotiate?
Some decisions are negotiations. Almost no multi-agent system is built that way.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The Agent Is the Cheap Part
Owning your agent IP and owning the platform underneath it are separate commitments. Most build business cases only price the first.
Pieter van Schalkwyk