Why the Simplest AI Agent Loop Beats a Sophisticated One

An AI agent is only as trustworthy as the check on its work. The loop that runs it barely matters. If you follow AI engineering at all, you have probably…

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Big Tech Says Human-in-the-Loop Fails. It’s Right, and Missing the Point.

The fixes the industry is reaching for relocate the problem. The harder question is what the human in the loop was holding. "Humans are not terribly consistent." That was Amazon's…

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Humans Forget for a Reason. Your AI Should Too.

Humans forget for a reason. It's not a flaw, it's how the mind works. The brain sheds detail on purpose. It forgets where you parked yesterday and keeps the pattern…

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The Illusion of Perfect Recall: Your AI Doesn’t Remember. It Reconstructs.

Ask someone to describe a vivid memory from ten years ago and they will give you detail. The weather. What was said. How they felt. They are not lying. They…

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Your AI Knows What It Did. Not What It Decided.

Your AI system is running well. The guardrails are structural, not prompt-based. The escalation paths have owners. The policies are written down and versioned. You have done the work. Now…

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The Disciplines AI Governance Forgot

Mythos did something unusual when it launched. It hard-coded which AI model could be used for which task category inside its platform. Customer-facing responses could only use smaller, lower-risk models.…

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From Human Supervision to Policy Governance

Supervision has latency. A human watching an AI system needs time to observe what happened, recognise that something is wrong, decide what to do and then act. That sequence takes…

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Your Regulator Won’t Tell You What to Build. That’s the Problem.

The FCA has made its position on AI clear: no new rules. Existing frameworks apply. Consumer Duty. SM&CR. Operational resilience. Work it out. This is being reported as the regulator…

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If Your AI Guardrails Live in the Prompt, They Aren’t Guardrails

When OpenClaw's security audit found over 500 vulnerabilities, the most serious category wasn't a flaw in the code. It was prompt injection. Prompt injection is what happens when an AI…

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Adding Controls To AI Isn’t Governance

Most organisations discover they have a governance problem the same way. Something goes wrong. An automated workflow sends the wrong response to the wrong customer. An AI agent escalates an…

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