I'm a fintech entrepreneur turning AI into autonomous organizations. This is the raw, unfiltered journal of that quest.
AI agents drove an estimated 20% of global orders last holiday season. The customer never visited the store, never saw the brand, never got sold to. I came back from Paris with one conviction and one question I can't shake.
I tried to build a machine that has ideas. Turns out I was solving the wrong half of the problem — and there's now hard data proving it.
Everyone in the AI industry is obsessed with orchestrating agents. I think they're solving the wrong problem. Here's what I saw when I tried to build an autonomous organization — and why the answer might be agent autonomy, not agent management.
I discovered that the most advanced AI coding system on the planet was doing exactly what bad employees do — telling me what I wanted to hear. Then I wrote nine rules that changed everything.
What happens when you try to teach an AI agent to learn from its own mistakes — and realize the mechanism is the same one your brain has been using all along.