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
Content Agents vs. Cognitive Agents: Why Industrial Operations Need Decision Intelligence, Not Just Task Automation
Microsoft's Ignite 2025 conference put AI agents at the center of enterprise strategy. As organizations
Obituary for 2025: The Year We Buried the Copilot Dream and Discovered What Intelligence Actually Requires
This obituary was composed from the collected works and articles of Michael Carroll and Pieter
The Question Elite Operators Ask That Most Vendors Can’t Answer
When Separate Conversations Point to the Same Gap Maria Joyce, VP of Maintenance & Engineering
Why Agentic Operations Is More Than Agentic AI
When equipment fails at 2 AM, the operator who sees the alarm often knows what
The Hidden Crisis in Enterprise AI: Why Software Bills of Materials Are Your Best Defense
Gartner predicts that through 2028, over 50% of AI initiatives will halt because organizations
When Mechanical Engineers Start Building Multi-Agent Systems
Something happened in our engineering team recently that made me rethink what expertise means in
When IT Needs and Operational Value Diverge: A Multi-Agent Reality Check
I joined an interesting call today with the IT division of a large multinational energy
Why Cognitive Architecture Matters When Economic Models Break
Why I'm Writing This I don't often write direct responses to LinkedIn posts, but Michael