Insights tagged ‘AI Guides’
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The narrow window for probabilistic agents
You can see the exact moment it goes wrong. The CIO sits through a vendor demo, watches an “AI agent” process a support ticket, look up an order, apply a returns policy, issue a refund, and send a confirmation email. It is slick, fast, and in every meaningful way, a workflow aut…
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Your org chart is not your AI strategy
If you’ve spent any time in enterprise technology over the past two decades, you’ll recognise the pattern immediately. A new category of tool emerges. Employees start using it because it makes their working lives easier. IT discovers this unsanctioned adoption, panics about secu…
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The machine that improves the machine
In May 2025, Google DeepMind released AlphaEvolve, an AI system that discovers better algorithms by evolving code through thousands of iterations. Within months, it had already optimised parts of Google’s data centre operations, improved hardware chip designs, and, most tellingl…
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The vibe coding spectrum: from weekend hacks to the dark factory
A year ago, Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet that would come to define how an entire industry talks about itself. “There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding,’” he wrote, “where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” He d…
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Out of context: strategies for managing agent memory
The ongoing contest in AI technology—a “strange arms race”—is the relentless expansion of the context window, which is the maximum input size for a large language model. This arms race is driven by the persistent notion that a larger context equals greater intelligence and capab…
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The Hot Mess: large AI models and the scaling mirage
There is a chart circulating among machine-learning circles that, depending on your outlook, will either alarm you or confirm something you have long suspected about the computers that are, at this point, writing our code, summarising our meetings, and helping decide who gets ba…
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Building a simple agent with Claude
This article covers how to build a simple AI agent using Claude, using a hypothetical sales function as a worked example. A sales team does not need a fully autonomous agent that orchestrates twelve tools and makes decisions about deal strategy. What it needs, at first, is a th…
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In the jungle: a reality check on AI agents
One of my all-time favourite films is Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The making of the film, however, was a carnival of catastrophe, itself captured in the excellent documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. There’s a quote from the embattled director tha…
