Feb 25, 2026 - 4 minute read

Data Connectors Unlock Everything Else

Your AI agent might be brilliant, but if it can’t see your data, it’s useless. The first and most powerful unlock on your agentic journey isn’t a better model or a cleverer prompt — it’s connecting your agent to the apps and data you already use every day. One API key at a time, you stop being the copy-paste middleman and start running an intelligence operation. Every tool you leave disconnected is a question you’ll never have time to ask.

Feb 18, 2026 - 6 minute read

Not Every Agent Needs AI

Everyone says they’re building “AI agents.” What they’re actually building ranges from a bash script with a friendly name to a multi-model autonomous system that costs $200/day to run. The industry has collapsed an enormous spectrum into one buzzword. Teams routinely overbuild simple automations and underbuild complex ones — because they never stopped to ask what kind of agent they actually need. There’s a clean taxonomy here. Two dimensions. Four levels. Eight distinct types. Name yours before you write a single line of code.

Feb 17, 2026 - 5 minute read

Back-and-Forth Is the Bottleneck

You open your AI agent. You describe the task. It asks a clarifying question. You answer. It starts working, gets stuck, asks another question. You answer. It produces a draft, you give feedback, it revises, you give more feedback. Ninety minutes later, the thing is done — and you were involved in every single step. You didn’t delegate a task. You had a meeting. The most expensive, lowest-throughput meeting of your day, and you hold it dozens of times a week.

Feb 13, 2026 - 7 minute read

Multitasking Feels Productive. Your Brain Disagrees.

You’ve felt it. Three Slack threads, two PRs under review, a doc half-written, and a meeting in eleven minutes. Everything moving forward. Momentum everywhere. Your brain is humming. Except it’s not. The neuroscience is unambiguous: what feels like productivity is actually your brain cycling between tasks so fast it mistakes the switching for progress. You are busy. You are not doing your best work.