The archive
Every dispatch from the eye.
The weekly Windstorm — what actually happened, what it meant, and what was worth doing about it — plus the occasional longer essay. Read them all; the storm keeps its records.
Your smartest hire can't be trusted
This week the giants quietly stopped selling smarter AI and started selling ways to keep it on a leash — which tells you exactly where the real work just moved.
Read →You can own the AI now. Now what?
This week intelligence got cheaper to rent and cheap enough to own outright — which leaves exactly one question the machine still can't answer for you.
Read →The excuse just expired.
Google just unveiled one AI agent that works across the apps you already use — quietly retiring the last honest excuse for not moving, and leaving exactly one variable unsolved: you.
Read →What a $6.89 Big Mac reveals about AI
McDonald's let an algorithm price your lunch across 14,000 restaurants — and the real story isn't the machine, it's who told it what to want.
Read →You can't manage what you can't find.
A company just announced software whose only job is to find the AI agents your own company is already running — and can't account for.
Read →The agents got names. Now the hard part.
This week AI agents got first names and job titles — and a sharp reminder that hiring them was never the hard part.
Read →Can the AI? Yes. Can you?
Gartner says 40% of business software will carry an AI agent by December — but only 31% of companies can actually run one, and that gap is a choice.
Read →The tool leapt. Did you?
This week the machines learned to run your computer for you — which means the only bottleneck left in your business is you.
Read →The tools got smarter. You didn't.
97% of companies say they deployed an AI agent in the past year, but only 15% got it to scale, and the gap isn't technical.
Read →The pilot worked. That was the easy part.
Only about 1 in 8 AI pilots ever reaches production, and the reason has almost nothing to do with the technology.
Read →95% of AI pilots flopped. Not the AI.
Ninety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots returned nothing last year, and the machines were almost never the reason why.
Read →The 95% aren't losing to the machines
MIT says 95% of organizations see zero ROI from generative AI. The models work fine. It's the wiring that's broken.
Read →The tool got cheaper. The gap didn't.
Opus 5 landed at half the frontier price - and proved again that the model was never the hard part.
Read →97% deployed agents. 3.8% can direct them.
Everybody bought the electricity this year; almost nobody wired the building.
Read →Nobody's flipping the switch yet
By one estimate, four in five companies have bought into AI agents; only about one in nine got them running — and the gap isn't technical.
Read →Cisco just bought 90,000 light switches
Everyone's counting the agents; almost no one is counting the people who have to learn to conduct them.
Read →Microsoft just spent $2.5B on my thesis
The week AI stopped being about models — and became about whether your company can actually conduct them.
Read →God Is a Vibe Coder
The most complex software in the universe — a living cell — was never written. It was read. That method was perfected billions of years ago, and you can simply steal it.
Read →The Keyboard Is a Weight Around Your Neck
For two million years we conducted by voice. QWERTY is a 150-year-old speck at the tail of that story — and it's been costing you more of your mind than you ever knew.
Read →You Are a Child Monarch
When you sit down with an AI, you inherit a kingdom of advisors who each know a thousand times what you do. You will never out-think them — but you can learn to conduct them.
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