#adoption
Every post tagged "adoption".
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Your First Production Agent Should Be Invoice Reconciliation — Because the Ledger Grades It for You
The best first agent isn't the most impressive one — it's the one whose environment tells you when it's wrong. Here's how to score candidate tasks for a built-in oracle, and the two ways that oracle quietly lies to you.
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The Screening Agent That Could Only Be Right
Every available metric said it was working — and every one of them was computed only from the candidates it advanced. The decision destroys the evidence needed to evaluate the decision.
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What Ten Years of Agent Tooling Might Look Like
Specific capability predictions age badly; layer predictions age better. Which parts commoditize, which stay differentiated — and the one prediction here most likely to be wrong.
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The Skills That Were Always the Job
Almost nothing on the durable list is new. These are what experienced engineers always said mattered — the economics just didn't reward them proportionately until now.
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Positions Worth Revising About Agents
Eight beliefs that are reasonable on their face and don't survive production. Every correction points the same direction — which makes it a useful prior for the next problem.
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Reading the Agent Discourse Without Being Misled
Two questions handle most of it: what specifically was the input, and what specifically checked the output? Almost every overstated claim is weak on one of them.
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The First Agent to Deploy in a Company That Has None
The first one shapes how much latitude every later one gets. Which means the right choice usually isn't the most valuable use case — it's the one most likely to succeed where people can see it.
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Working With an Agent as a Pair, Not a Vending Machine
Describe, wait, review, repeat — the mode most people start in and the one that hits a ceiling fastest. The difference is fifteen seconds spent on what you know that isn't written down.
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The Second-System Effect in Agent Deployments
The first agent works because it was scoped well. The second aims at exactly the cases the first one escalated — which is the residual that resisted automation for structural reasons.
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The Economics of an Agent-Heavy Team
Several line items move and only one of them is tokens. The savings are real, land on a single term, and are partly consumed by four others that grow — which is why big speedups produce modest delivery gains.