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AI controls, agent systems, banking governance, production practice. 412 essays, newest first.
- AI Controls Architecture
Risk teams know risk. The open problem is designing controls for systems that are non-deterministic, probabilistic, and attackable in natural language.
- Governing Agents the Way Cells Govern Themselves
Six cell biology mechanisms that reveal what the networking 'control plane' metaphor misses about governing AI agents.
- The Risk Without an Engineering Solution
Every other agentic AI risk has an engineering answer. Prompt injection doesn't. That changes everything about how you design controls.
- Don't Ask Your AI to Find Problems
Ask for bugs and you'll get bugs — whether they exist or not. Sycophancy is a design feature, and the fix isn't better prompting.
- What Makes a Great AI Consultant (Beyond Technical Skills)
The most dangerous person in an AI consulting engagement knows how the model works but has never sat in a credit committee.
- HK/APAC as an AI Hub for Financial Services: The Story Being Missed
Hong Kong has quietly run one of the most sophisticated GenAI experiments in global banking. Almost no one outside the region is paying attention.
- AI Agent Frameworks for Enterprise FS: What Actually Works vs. Hype
Most enterprise AI agent pilots in financial services fail at the same point: the second tool call. The problem isn't the framework.
- RAG for Compliance: The Hard Problem Is Chunking, Not Retrieval
Banks are deploying RAG for compliance and discovering the hard problem isn't retrieval. It's the pipeline before it.
- Banking DS to AI Consulting: What the Transition Actually Teaches You
The operational instincts built in production banking don't belong in the past. They're exactly what makes a practitioner-turned-consultant useful.
- Most Banks Don't Need an AI Strategy
The real project isn't artificial intelligence. It's the data infrastructure that AI exposes as broken.
- Why Every Tool Now Needs Two Faces - CLI for Humans, MCP for AI
We're building parallel interfaces for the same functionality because humans and AI agents parse the world through fundamentally different grammars. The future isn't human OR machine interfaces - it's both, simultaneously.
- Ambient Agents: When AI Disappears Into Capability
The real revolution isn't making AI smarter - it's making it invisible
- The Hidden Violence of Vague Instructions
LLMs aren't just tools we prompt - they're forcing functions for human linguistic evolution
- MCP is Not a Glorified API
The protocol that looks like plumbing but acts like philosophy - how MCP fundamentally changes the agent-tool relationship
- I Don't Read Documentation Anymore
When AI can execute complex setups through conversation, learning shifts from reading documentation to observing execution.
- Claude Code, Analyze My Spending
When AI coding assistants become workflow orchestrators, the most powerful compiler processes reality, not code.
- Claude Code Mobile is Better Than Desktop
Walking meetings, voice input, and location changes unlock cognitive advantages desktop workflows can't access.
- How Claude Code Helps You Think
AI becomes most powerful when it helps you discover what your ideas actually are. Cognitive partnership over replacement.
- Claude Code is Not a Coding Agent
Why I use Claude Code for everything except coding: cognitive compiler for strategy, decisions, and understanding.
- Production AI vs Demos: The Intent Classification Reality Check
Building AI systems that work in the real world requires thinking beyond the demo. What actually matters when users depend on your models.
- Intelligence on Tap
When artificial intelligence becomes as mundane as running water, how does thinking itself change?
- What and Why Beat How
When implementation becomes automated, human intelligence reallocates to purpose and strategy. The cognitive hierarchy inverts.
- The Invisible Puppeteer
When algorithms shape decisions we think are ours
- Everyone Becomes Middle Management
The automation tool that creates more coordination work
- AI Agents Need Passports, Not Passwords
The authentication systems we're building assume AI agents are tools. What happens when they become economic actors with their own accounts, credentials, and legal standing?