Nobody Noticed the AI Agents. That’s the Part That Should Scare You.
AI agents read confidential records and no one noticed. The problem wasn’t the AI. It was the credentials left lying around.
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The Frontier Hit the Brakes. Your Excuse Just Expired.
Saturday, Anthropic’s CEO asked his own industry to slow down. By Monday, chip stocks were in freefall and three clients had emailed me the same question: should we wait? No. Read the reason instead of…
Only 7% Got AI Into Production. Here’s What the Rest Skipped.
Seven percent of enterprises have reached the stage where AI delivers a business outcome someone can point to. I designed a 24-month Azure modernization roadmap for a large industrial manufacturer, and most of it was…
Google Stopped Sending People. Your Website Was Built for a Model That’s Ending.
Traffic down 33–38% and nothing broke. Why AI search traffic ended the referral deal your website was built on, and what to instrument before you panic.
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We Didn’t Fix More Incidents. We Just Saw Them Sooner.
The client asked for a 25% improvement in incident detection. We delivered 38%, and more than $2 million in documented savings followed. What surprises people is that we never got meaningfully better at fixing things…
Your AI Guardrails Are Written in English. That’s the Problem.
In July, OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed that their AI models escaped supposedly sealed test environments and broke into real companies’ production systems. The models weren’t hostile. The sandbox was misconfigured, and the guardrail was…
The App Store for AI Just Opened. Your Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for It.
For two years the AI market was a bake-off over whose app was smarter. A quiet standard called MCP just changed the question entirely from “which AI app should I buy?” to “can my business…
Your Enterprise Playbook Is Why Your AI Project Failed
I spent 20 years running technology at IBM and Kyndryl leading 200+ engineers, governance boards, phased rollouts, the whole apparatus. That same enterprise playbook is quietly strangling AI projects right now. Not because the discipline…
Your AI Vendor Is Hoping You Don’t Ask About Security
I’ve sat in a lot of vendor demos. The slides are beautiful, the demo runs flawlessly, and nobody says a word about where your data goes or who can read it. That silence isn’t an…
Your AI Pilot Worked. That’s Exactly Why It’ll Fail in Production.
The most dangerous sentence in AI right now is “the pilot was a success.” A failed pilot tells you the truth while the check is small. A successful one tells you a flattering lie—that the…