Your AI employees need a handbook
I've seen people try Claude or ChatGPT, get mediocre answers, and conclude AI is overhyped. But the power of agents doing real
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I've seen people try Claude or ChatGPT, get mediocre answers, and conclude AI is overhyped. But the power of agents doing real
4 Mar 2026 · 5 min readIn part 1 I covered the straightforward agent use cases: copyediting, onboarding, expense reports, Jira management. Those are about doing existing tasks faster. The
1 Mar 2026 · 4 min readHere's a model I use to think about how AI will change work. Some parts of every activity will cost 1,000x
4 Aug 2025 · 2 min readShorter ideas, quick updates, and experiments in progress.
There are only three categories of guardrails to prevent harm from agents. First, relying on hard constraints to only allow certain kinds of behaviour. For example, limiting which
I committed to sharing something every day in March about our AI transformation at Pactum. The pace is high, not just internally but in the entire world, so
As our employees use Claude Code for various tasks, we keep seeing agents repeat the same work. Summarizing a customer's state across Salesforce, email, product analytics,
"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" used to mean: pick the vendor nobody will question. It was a decision driven by fear, not conviction. I think
I've seen people try Claude or ChatGPT, get mediocre answers, and conclude AI is overhyped. But the power of agents doing real work for every employee
In part 1 I covered the straightforward agent use cases: copyediting, onboarding, expense reports, Jira management. Those are about doing existing tasks faster. The five below are different.
While we're in this mode of rapidly developing agent capabilities, I want to do my part in diffusing knowledge of what agents can do. Since Claude
People sometimes use the word "impossible" too lightly. When I consider whether something is possible, I consider two angles first: 1. Is it logically provably impossible?
Today I published my first agent skill: using Statistics Estonia databases. Often I have some simple question and I know data exists, but I can't be
In 2024, humans created software. In 2025, Claude Code (and Codex, and Cursor, and all the others) created software. In 2026, Claude Code is the software. It'