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Org Age
Teams, maturity ladders, and intelligent organizations.
Dispatches
Filed from the floor — the patterns unfreeze in Miami, and the Linux moment arrives on the laptop.
- Adoption lives or dies on the middle rungs — deployments fail between scattered chatbox use and autonomy, in the layers everyone skips. — Laddering Up from Chatboxes to Autonomy · Apr 14
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Laddering up from chatboxes to autonomy
Most companies want to go from scattered ChatGPT use directly to agents and autonomy. The middle layers — the ones where deployments either become real or die — get skipped in the planning.
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Building an Intelligent Organization
From AI pilots to production systems — how we help leadership move up the maturity curve with principal-led engagements.
Instruments
Reading the gauges — before you trust an agent, you need instruments that show you when it's lying.
- AI tools fail loudly where humans failed quietly: messy codebases finally show up on the meter, and the fix was owed all along. — Good for Human, Good for AI · Dec 10
The Console
Moving into the terminal — the agents live where the work lives, and code becomes disposable material.
- Code is disposable material now: with agents that read and refactor, the ROI threshold on cleanup collapsed and experiments are nearly free. — Technical Debt and the ROI Threshold · Jul 3
