Recent reports of AI going rogue are misleading and sensationalist. The AI is not rogue: agentic systems pursue objectives literally, making explicit boundaries, constraints, and escalation paths as important as the goals themselves.
Estimates are poor tools for managing uncertainty and humans are poor at generating them.
The AI race may not be won by the smartest model, but by whoever can embed enough intelligence into the physical economy at the greatest scale.
LLMs excel at generating new artefacts but fail when asked to interpret and safely update existing ones. Their value lies in text creation tasks (research, summary, explanation, deep dives), not system modification.
Agentic systems generate far more code but also around 1.2 production defects per day, requiring extra fix capacity to stay stable.
Explaining a problem to your manager is only half a solution. How to complete the circle, identify solutions, and show cost, benefits and delivery timelines.
LLM-centred agentic systems will always make mistakes, just like human engineers. Human-authored tests are all that can stop an agentic quality drop.
A walk‑through of how gossip communication alone produces a single global order without leaders, coordination, or messages in a Byzantine faulty distributed system.
Most technical debt is not debt at all. It is the unavoidable cost of changing yesterday’s decisions to support today.
An idempotent service must never trust client‑supplied names. This piece shows how server‑side identity, atomic state, and UUIDv4 naming prevent double‑spend and keep distributed systems safe under failure.