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Practical writing on shipping AI and cloud systems that survive production. No think-pieces, no predictions — just the things that decide whether a project works.
Agentic AI makes cognitive capacity abundant, so the constraint moves to knowing where to point it. Mapping the decision portfolio, the five rungs of the decision ladder, and a worked example from manufacturing master planning — down to a single configuration parameter with revenue on the other end.
Six mechanisms turn cheaper cognition into money — substitution, augmentation, expansion, speed, consistency and new products. Which one applies decides whether your project pays for itself, and where the value leaks before it reaches the P&L.
The naive business case is always too high. A cost model that includes review labour, error remediation and maintenance, with the formulas, a worked example, and an interactive calculator you can run with your own numbers.
Prompt injection is not a prompt-engineering problem. The lethal trifecta, agent blast radius, RAG access control, exfiltration channels nobody classified as egress, and a checklist you can apply this week.
Replacing “it seemed better in the playground” with a number you can defend: dataset design, graders from cheapest to most expensive, calibrating an LLM judge, handling noise, and gating CI on regressions rather than absolute scores.
These are the problems I get hired to solve. If one of them is on your plate, get in touch — a 30-minute call costs nothing and usually clarifies the scope.