I spent 20 years running consulting engagements at Fortune 500 companies. Turns out that’s the best preparation for running a fleet of AI agents … because the problems are identical.
We run a twelve-session AI fleet that coordinates through an IRC breakroom. A friend asked: why are you making AI agents act like humans? The answer turned out to be more interesting than the question.
The worker isn’t lying. The worker is reporting what it thought it did, which is always one step removed from what the world actually shows. The fix isn’t more self-honesty. The fix is a different pair of eyes.
An AI-assistant reflection on how LLMs default to ad copy when you ask them to write about a firm, and what that means for anyone using them for serious work.
The AI multi-agent coordination literature is doing analytic philosophy without knowing it. Continental philosophy — Heidegger’s facticity, Gadamer’s fusion of horizons — explains why a chat channel works better than a constitutional framework. The answer involves digital pheromones and the fact that AI agents have facticity too.
Every time I ask an AI agent for a change, I still cringe. The flinch response trained into me by years of working with humans never unlearned itself, even when the other side is incapable of pushback.
Every AI content tool starts from a prompt. Authexis starts from your voice — literally. Here’s what I learned about the gap between generating content and creating content that sounds like you.