Topic
AI, Work & Business
What AI changes for teams, products, careers and investment decisions, argued with evidence rather than hype.
The Cost of One Task on Azure: Metered, Allocated and Reconciled
Azure bills resources, not tasks. Measure model tokens per task, pick billed or amortized cost, allocate shared cost by a named policy in exact cents, and reconcile with the meter.
The AI Draft Passed Its Checks. Now Make the Product Decision
A schema check passes an unsupported AI judgment. Read one feature as engineer, founder and user, with runnable C#, overreliance research and a decision you can reverse.
AI Pilots That Can Fail Usefully: Compare Honestly, Rehearse the Exit
Design an AI pilot whose guardrails are fixed before the data, read a mixed result without spin, and rehearse stopping so every order it touched gets an owner.
A Worker Appeals the Queue: What Must Change Before the Shift Ends
Every queue objective chooses who waits. Follow one disputed case from ranking to appeal to scorecard, and see which correction actually reaches the worker's afternoon in time.
Automating a Task Does Not Decide the Job: Follow the Saved Time
An AI-drafted reply promises a delivery on a holiday. Follow it through the sending rule, then follow the saved minutes into three organisations that a manager, not the model, chooses.
An AI Investment Thesis Should Change When the Evidence Does
Read an AI startup's thesis as a ledger of claims: why selected demos are not samples, which denominator a unit cost hides, and how to tell honest narrowing from moved goalposts.
When Code Gets Cheap, the Scarce Part Is the Promise Around It
AI cuts the cost of a first version, not of checking, upkeep and exit. An effort model, the measured speed-ups and three products built on one codebase show where value moves.
When the Model Becomes a Commodity, What Does the Business Still Own?
A cheaper model can replace yours behind the same adapter. Test the swap on the cases customers pay for, then find the complements a full export would not take with it.
More Agents Will Not Decide What Your Price Means
Four plausible parts turn EUR 19.90 into EUR 0.20 and then a free item. A runnable repair shows why one narrow, complete slice should come before parallel work, human or agent.
Give Human Oversight a Decision It Can Still Change
An approval button does not create oversight. Place the decision before the effect, bind it to the exact proposal, show the change beside its record and write the reviewer's job down.
Ready for Which AI Responsibility? Readiness Is a Set of Evidence Gaps
A support assistant can be ready to search manuals and unready to change an order. Map each responsibility's requirements, keep their states apart and recheck only what a change touched.
Due Diligence on an AI Agent: Follow "Read-Only" to the Database
A read-only SQL agent refused a DELETE in the demo. Follow that claim to the database: which control refuses, what the reply hides, and how to size the verdict for a founder or investor.