Cisco has given one engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code. I did a (much smaller) version of that on the Calendrz codebase this year, and the tokens were the easy part: the tests and the deleting came first.
Posts Tagged: agentic AI
Stop Asking Your AI Agent Nicely: Put the Rules in Code
Sentry’s David Cramer argues prompts are rarely the way to make AI agents behave. I agree: the rules that matter belong in code, as I learnt building Calendrz.
Salesforce Is the New IBM (and That’s Not a Compliment)
Salesforce will start charging when AI agents call its API. Straight out of IBM’s mainframe playbook, if you ask me: squeeze the customers who can’t leave.
Of Leaders, Workers and Too Many AI Agents
A new Asana report finds leaders use far more AI agents than their teams, while workers lose time juggling them. My take on why the two sides see agents so differently, and why leaders should measure finished work rather than agent activity.
Of Banks and AI Agents: Lock the Window, Build a Door
JPMorgan and Schwab are blocking outside AI agents from client accounts. They’re right to, but the interesting part is what Schwab offers instead, and why every CTO should give agents a proper front door (as I did for Calendrz).
Your AI Agent Will Book the Meeting. Will It Know When You’re Free?
Meta and Sierra’s Personal Agent Protocol, Google’s Gemini agent and Microsoft’s Work IQ all point the same way: agents will negotiate our time. Here’s why accurate, merged calendar data is the part that decides whether they get it right.
AI agents are joining your meetings. Do they know when you’re actually free?
Agents are moving into meetings and calendars. Here’s what six months of running an MCP server and a scheduling agent taught me about letting AI book your time.
