The Agentic Future Needs Standard Plumbing, but Custom Judgment


Anyone who has worked in a large company has complained about silos. Sales has one version of the customer, finance has another, operations has a third, and someone eventually builds a spreadsheet to reconcile all three. We build integration layers, data lakes, master-data programs – and somehow the silos survive all of them. They areContinue reading “The Agentic Future Needs Standard Plumbing, but Custom Judgment”

Rethinking Enterprise Architecture with Jev


TypeSafe AI announced Jev this week, and the interesting question isn’t whether it can replace frontier models. Enterprises already route around expensive models when they don’t need them – smaller models for simple tasks, escalation for harder ones, deterministic code for what needs no model at all. Classifiers have handled bounded decisions for years. IfContinue reading “Rethinking Enterprise Architecture with Jev”

When Exploitation Becomes Abundant


From AI-Augmented Capitalism to the Race Between Frontier Creation and Rent Extraction For 250 years, capitalism has gotten progressively better at exploiting what it already knows. AI may compress the useful life of some forms of advantage, but not necessarily the advantage of the firm itself. Capitalism has repeatedly reinvented itself around new forms ofContinue reading “When Exploitation Becomes Abundant”