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What Separates a Real AI Agent From a Chat Bot or Pipeline With a Name

AI Agent... The word has been stretched to cover almost anything that calls a model twice. The useful test is not how autonomous a system is, but whether it holds a position it can be caught being wrong about.

Ben WaldJUL 29 202615 MIN READ

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Agency Was the Easy Axis: The Architecture of an Agent That Improves

Most of the argument about AI agents is still about whether they can act. Inside our fleet that question is settled. The harder one is whether an agent gets better, and the answer turns out to be an argument about where a lesson should live.

Ben WaldJUL 29 202616 MIN READ

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The Future of Interactive: Why the Best Judgment Comes From Argument

The most interactive software most professionals have ever used was not built for work. It was a game. The tools we make our most consequential decisions with have stayed inert, and the lineage that fixes that runs through forty years of teaching software to hold a point of view.

Ben WaldJUL 13 20269 MIN READ

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Intelligence Was Never One Thing: The Paradox That Shaped How We Built Vantage

The most useful idea for deciding what machines should do in your firm is almost forty years old. It is the cornerstone of why we built Vantage, and most of the industry is reading it backwards.

Ben WaldJUL 10 202611 MIN READ