AI Adoption: Why Businesses Struggle to Move from Development to Production - Day Two AI Operations: “This interchangeability means the real differentiators lie elsewhere: how you integrate your company data, design safety and guardrails, and adapt your development processes."
Model Context Protocol Bridges LLMs to the Apps They Need - The idea of having the AI sort out which tools to use is cool. What’s also cool is that you natural language to tell the AI what the tools do and when to use them. It then sorts them out. What’s also cool is that Spring AI is the official Java implementation.
Build a Campaign-Unique Faction List - “faction list turn our world’s lore to specific things the characters interact with during the game. Faction lists turns fuzzy concepts into a practical list we can use in the next game we run."
Affording your AI chatbot friends - ‘An “AI Agent” is just a model with access to tools like “escalate ticket”, “run SQL query”, or “draw an image”. The rest of the hype comes from fitting it into existing workloads like ETL nonsense with MuleSoft or something banal like that. This is really what all the hype is about: hooking AI models up to existing infrastructure so that they can do “useful things”.'
For enterprise AI, avoid repeating the wasted DIY year
You're about to waste at least a year and millions of dollars on enterprise AI projects. Here's how to avoid it. Here’s a new article on enterprise AI from me and a co-worker. As with most maturity models, it’s 2/3 prescriptive and 1/3 “here’s some ideas that might help.” A bit of map and territory.
With AI, we’re seeing a familiar anti-pattern, but this time flavor-injected with generative AI: the board charters a tiger team, gives them budget.
What do tariffs on Canadian goods have to do with me? - Sherwood News - Bacon and lumber to be more expensive, among other things.
Do these dual images say anything about your personality? - It doesn’t matter if you saw a rabbit, a vase, or an old woman. // “We didn’t find very much support for the claims, but there were some correlations in our data."
One ‘Bad Apple’ Correct Interpretation - On the use and mis-use of “bad apples."
What is "O-Ring Theory"?
One bad apple ruins the bunch.
The O-Ring Theory, proposed by economist Michael Kremer in 1993, describes how small failures in complex, interdependent tasks can lead to major breakdowns. Named after the Challenger disaster, where a faulty O-ring caused the shuttle’s destruction, this model applies to production, labor markets, and economic development.
In an O-ring system, tasks must be performed at a consistently high level because a single weak link can compromise the entire process.
What is "Median Voter Theory"?
Median Voter Theory (MVT) suggests that in a majority-rule election, the candidate closest to the median voter’s views will win. Since most voters are partisan and vote predictably, elections are decided by swing voters in the middle. To win, candidates adjust their positions to attract this decisive group, often moving toward the political center.
Developed by Anthony Downs in 1957, MVT explains why general election candidates tend to sound more moderate than during primaries, where they appeal to their base.