AI & Agents
Articles about AI & Agents, with practical notes on AI-written enterprise software, governed data, application development, and agent workflows.
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PublishedHow to Configure Your AI Coding Agent to Write ObjectStack Apps
Three wires point a coding agent at ObjectStack: a scaffolded rule file, an 11-skill bundle, and an in-runtime tool server. Each one verified against 17.2.0 — including the real output of the gate rejecting a wrong definition.
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PublishedContext Is the Bottleneck in Enterprise AI: Every Fix Solves Only the Read Half
Two of the largest data platforms built their June 2026 keynotes around the same claim, and it is correct. But semantic layers, catalogs and ontologies all ground what an agent reads. The write half runs on borrowed enforcement.
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PublishedForward Deployed Engineer vs Solutions Engineer vs Solutions Architect vs Consultant
Four roles that look identical in the customer's conference room and diverge on the org chart. A comparison table on outcome ownership, production code, quota, reporting line and pay — plus the one question that separates them.
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PublishedThe Forward Deployed Engineer Model: Why Copying Palantir Builds a Consultancy
Four AI giants stood up forward-deployed orgs in 2026. Palantir earns roughly 11x the revenue per employee Accenture does — and the gap is not the role, it is the substrate the role writes into.
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PublishedOntology vs Semantic Layer vs Knowledge Graph: What Is Actually Different
A semantic layer defines what a number means. A knowledge graph stores what connects to what. Only an ontology carries actions and permissions. Precise definitions, a decision table, and a test for which one your agent needs.
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PublishedWhat Is Ontology MCP? Turning an Enterprise Ontology Into Agent Tools
Ontology MCP exposes an ontology's object types, action types and functions as MCP tools any agent can call. What Palantir shipped, what Microsoft is previewing, and the tool-surface asymmetry to plan for.
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PublishedWhat Tools Do Forward-Deployed Engineers Use? An Ontology-First Open Stack
What forward deployed engineers actually build across a 60–180 day deployment, the five pains that define the work, and why the 2026 copycat wave copied the role but not the substrate underneath it.
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PublishedHow Many Tokens Is a Business App? A Complete CRM Under 150k
A complete CRM—business logic, permissions, workflows, and UI—fits under 150k tokens of typed metadata. Business logic stays under 100k; UI adds ~50k. The bundled reference CRM is ~16k.
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PublishedWhen an AI Agent Deletes Production Data: Runtime Guardrails Beat Prompts
The Replit database incident shows a structural lesson: an agent's blast radius must be controlled by runtime permissions, approvals, and audit logs, not only by a prompt.
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PublishedHow to Write Agent Rules That Generate Governable Apps
Most agent rule files police style, not governance. Use AGENTS.md, .cursor/rules, and an open declarative target so AI-generated apps are reviewable from day one.
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PublishedMCP Security for Enterprise Agents: Why Protocols Need Governed Tools
MCP can connect agents to tools quickly, but enterprise systems need identity, permissions, approvals, and audit behind every tool call.
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PublishedWhy AI Agent Pilots Fail Before Production: The Four Missing Layers
A project drew applause on demo day, then was killed four months later by one question from legal. The problem was not the model; it was missing semantics, permissions, approvals, and audit.
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PublishedAgentforce vs. an Open Self-Hosted Runtime: When to Choose Each
A company nearly signed with Agentforce until it found that half its data lived outside the suite. Here is when to choose a closed suite, when to choose open self-hosting, and when to use both.
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