What happens when AI hits real systems

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Three categories of guardrails

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

9 Mar 2026 · 1 min read

Week 1: the gap is inside your company

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

8 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

Core vs edge agents

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,

8 Mar 2026 · 1 min read

Nobody gets fired for buying Anthropic

"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

5 Mar 2026 · 1 min read

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 work for every employee

4 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

My agent use cases, part 2

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.

1 Mar 2026 · 4 min read

My agent use cases, part 1

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

19 Jan 2026 · 2 min read

Possible

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?

17 Jan 2026 · 1 min read

Agent skill - Statistics Estonia

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

11 Jan 2026 · 1 min read

Claude Code IS the software

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'

10 Jan 2026 · 1 min read