The headlines report the opposite: companies getting surprise bills and eating up their budget in a fraction of the year. This sets the tone for panic. As always with multi-perspectivity, both statements are true at the same time…

The AI backlash is in full swing. The Economist made it a title story. Your CFO is probably grumpy about the token cost…

“By that time, the stream had grown up, … it did not run and jump as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly… For it knew now where it was going.” When observing the flurry of AI announcements, I am often reminded of this beautiful metaphor from A.A…

As a kid, I loved making paper airplanes. You fold. You throw…

I guess you know the feeling: you stand under a nice warm shower, and suddenly the water stops. Annoying to say the least. And very noticeable…

As kids, we built our own telephone: two tins and a cord were enough for a remote communication device. We loved it. And tested its limits…

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As a child, I loved building towers with wooden blocks (even more so with a system called Cuboro, where the aim is to build a marble run). The first instinct: higher is better. Until your tower starts to wobble…

CEOs ask me often: how does AI contribute value in my business? When you are confronted with the daily announcements from frontier labs - better batteries, new materials, biomedical discoveries - you ask yourself: we do not have this R&D branch, we will never have such flashy cases. This misses a key point: value is created in the detail…

What can playing in a band teach us about working in project teams? Quite a lot. It looks effortless…

To polish. To finish. To refine…

Sounds like a trivial question. Yet it is interesting from many angles. The obvious one is distribution…

Remember when you wanted to start your journey and your car would not start? This has become rather rare for me. Still, I vividly recall the associated stress…

Has it happened to you that your navigation system proposed a route which you ignored for a shortcut you had in mind? Sometimes you were right. Sometimes the system had seen a constraint you had not…

A recent experiment in “autoresearch” caught my attention: parts of the ML research loop can be automated. Karpathy’s setup optimizes the validation loss. What is this…

As a kid playing soccer, this was the big disappointment: you scored a goal, only for the referee to call offside. You thought you were behind the invisible line … but apparently not. This maps well to our third TODO when working with autonomous agentic systems (remember, the first was about circuit breakers and the second about fallbacks): guardrails and monitoring…

Imagine you plan a city trip. You set a budget. A date…

Training an AI model is hard. It requires skill and persistence. And the methods evolve constantly in this fast-moving field…

In the last Workflow Wednesday, we talked about interruptibility by design and promised more todos when building agentic systems. Here is the second: fallback and override. Suppose you introduce transport robots in a warehouse…