"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." (Joanna Maciejewska)
Hook the chore, not the craft.
When your company rolled out an AI tool, did anyone actually use it? Or did people find creative ways to look like they did?
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The cheapest way to debug an AI agent is a Latin phrase. When my chief-of-ops agent stops saying _festina lente_, the persona has washed out.
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"A memory the agent has to remember to look up isn't memory." Four design choices separate production agentic memory from a markdown file.
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When your AI agent makes a decision in one session, does it remember WHY next week?
How are you handling memory across agent sessions right now?
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Claude hallucinated that we'd worked for the Austrian Federal Forestry Service. Completely false.\n\nThat's why every fact in our memory system now requires a citation. No source = assertion, not fact.\n\nkromatic.com/blog/agentic-m…
Harvard Microsoft studied orgs with hundreds of active AI deployments. Productivity gains "remain trapped inside individual workflows." The bottleneck isn't the tech. It's org design. kromatic.com/blog/stop-putti…
If your CEO is still presenting AI as a standalone board update... has AI actually changed how your company operates? Or is it still a special project with a slide deck?