Insights

December 16, 2025

The Great Agentic Capture

Over the course of this series, we dissected the “definitive guides” from ten of the most powerful technology firms on earth. We waded through white papers, technical architectures, and executive playbooks released over the last six months. Each...

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December 11, 2025

The Pipeline, the Paycheck, and the Petri Dish

There is a pattern hiding in plain sight in the AI industry, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Every company talking about “AI Agents” is not actually talking about agents at all. They are describing what they already sell while wearing a...

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December 11, 2025

The “Cog” and the “Code”

The deeper we dig into the “Agentic AI” narrative, the clearer the pattern becomes. Every vendor is rushing to define “Agents” in a way that conveniently validates their existing product roadmap. We’ve seen Agents defined as queries, microservices,...

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December 09, 2025

The “HR” Fallacy and the “Headcount” Trap

In my previous posts, we debunked the notion that “Agentic AI” is just a new term for old workflows or database queries. Now, we turn our attention to the Administrators. I just reviewed two new reports: “The Agentic AI Advantage” (Dataiku) and “AI...

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December 07, 2025

The “Agentic” Masquerade

The automation industry is currently engaged in a frantic game of dress-up. In my last post, we examined how legacy workflow platforms are scrambling to rebrand their rigid, deterministic flowcharts as Agentic Orchestration. They are taking old...

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December 07, 2025

The “Agentic” Shell Game

We need to talk about “Agentic Orchestration.” The narrative is consistent: AI Agents are the future, but they can be unpredictable and high-risk. The proposed solution? Orchestration. It sounds logical. We need a conductor for the orchestra. We...

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