A system of record cannot act
Business software was designed to hold an accurate account of what already happened. That design decision is why a company's speed is set by how fast its staff can type.
- system of action
- ERP
- automation
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Why a system of record cannot act, what the seams between systems cost, and where intelligence stops being a lawful word to use.
The integration tax
Every company knows what its software costs. Almost none can say what the space between the systems costs, and it is usually the larger number.
- integration
- data silos
- cost
Intelligence has a lawful meaning and an unlawful one
Borrowing intelligence vocabulary for a business product is easy and mostly harmless. Borrowing the practices those words describe is a criminal offence.
- OSINT
- GDPR
- boundaries
Code written by agents still gets reviewed
An autonomous software factory is a real advantage and the easiest thing in this field to oversell. Here is exactly where the automation stops.
- AI engineering
- CI/CD
- review
Compute is a market, not a subscription
AI work is bursty and hardware sits idle. A grid where machines trade capacity is an old idea whose obstacles were never technical, and there is no token in it.
- distributed compute
- grid
- settlement