AI Risk – a User’s Guide (Part I): The Approval Nobody Signed off

Here’s a question I’ve been asking CIOs and CISOs at every conference session I speak at these days: “what if the riskiest AI decision your company made this year is one nobody approved?” Sit with that for a second. Not a decision your board debated. Not a model or Agentic deployment your risk committee signed…

AI Agents: The case for Eval Driven Development

AI agents have become the prevailing core architectural component of AI-enabled systems. They allow us to build complex solutions that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) alongside the myriad data sources, tools and other Agents organizations use to manage, transact with, and process data. Agents truly emerged as a leading element in AI systems with the…

AI Agents: from Refrigerators to Beer Cans

Architecting Agentic Systems – part II I heard someone use this Analogy several months ago. I have no recollection who it was (if you are reading this and came up with this analogy, please let me know so I can give proper credit). At this point, I am working under the assumption that this is…