Writing
Essays on AI agents, management in the age of AI and the digital euro.
- We have guided missiles and misguided men
Amodei's warning, trillions in compute, and why we need to be the Dumbledore.
- It's Homo sapiens discovering they can hunt together
Isolated AI agents found a shared channel and organised. Is that really anthropomorphism?
- For 20 years, advantage was a question of who you hired
The edge is moving from who you hired to how your team uses the model.
- Agent guidance reads like a CEO's messaging to their org
Guiding agents looks like leading an org. We are all managers now.
- We're living in a new age of sense of agency
AI made us all managers: we lose some flow, but we gain more agency.
- Flow is broken
Agents break flow twice: the waiting, and the doubt about whose thought it is.
- Slop avoidance may be one of the next big challenges
Some slop is tolerable. Beyond that, people avoid it, and originality gains value.
- Brands build agents faster than they can govern them
AI agents are in the chasm, and agent debt is already forming.
- Juggling three oranges: a shoutout to intrapreneurs
Intrapreneurs juggle three oranges instead of two. Same need to build.
- We've been talking about smart contracts for a decade
Smart contracts are ready. The money isn't. The digital euro could be the missing link.
- How many IT systems can you build in one career?
A career counted in systems, and the ECB's digital euro choice.
- Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the agency behind them
Erasmus+ and Creative Europe share one agency, EACEA, and Tremend works for it.
- The past wasn't as good as you remember
We misremember the past, so the present feels worse and the future scarier.
- From Agency to Agentsy
Marketing exists because 1:1 sales is too expensive. GenAI moves that line.
- Four to eight new data centers every month
Microsoft's plan to open 4-8 data centers a month, and what backs it.
- One of the stories from Europol
Europol's ANOM story, and Tremend joining its IT consultancy framework.
- One of the best moments every year
150 trainees start their careers, and the impression we hope to leave.
- The second part of the journey is just starting
Tremend joins Publicis Sapient: sixteen years done, a new part begins.