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2020-2025

The 6 security shifts AI teams can’t ignore in 2026

Subscribe • Previous Issues The AI-Native Security Playbook: Six Essential Shifts As we expand from AI-assisted tools to AI-native operations, the security landscape is undergoing a structural transformation. Those building, scaling, and investing in generative AI applications, are starting to see a shift from static models to autonomous agents with the authority to interact directly with enterprise systems. This evolution brings a…

Your AI passed benchmarks. Why is it failing in production?

Subscribe • Previous Issues AI Reliability Patterns That Generalize Beyond Medicine The gap between pilot projects and production deployments has emerged as a defining challenge for enterprise AI teams. Recent surveys indicate that only a small percentage of generative AI initiatives reach full production, with most stalling due to brittle workflows and integration failures. At last year’s AI Conference, several colleagues independently…

Emerging AI patterns in finance (what to watch in 2026)

Subscribe • Previous Issues What’s Emerging in Financial AI: From Foundation Models to Compliance-as-Code While the public discourse remains fixated on Artificial General Intelligence, the more immediate and consequential story is the diffusion of AI into specialized enterprise domains. Having spent time as a quant within the hedge fund industry, I have long viewed financial services as the primary bellwether for how…

Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring

Subscribe • Previous Issues Agent Optimization: From Prompt Whispering to Platform Engineering Agent optimization is the work of making an agent workflow dependable — despite long tool chains, multiple roles, and the inherent variability of large language models. In day-to-day engineering terms, it is closer to debugging a complex system than “making the model smarter”: you are tuning roles, prompts, routing, memory,…

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