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title: "Blog"
url: "https://hurukan.com/blog"
description: "Why a system of record cannot act, what the seams between systems cost, and where intelligence stops being a lawful word to use."
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# Blog

Why a system of record cannot act, what the seams between systems cost, and where intelligence stops being a lawful word to use.

September 4, 2026·3 min read

## [A system of record cannot act](https://hurukan.com/blog/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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August 21, 2026·2 min read

## [The integration tax](https://hurukan.com/blog/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

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August 7, 2026·3 min read

## [Intelligence has a lawful meaning and an unlawful one](https://hurukan.com/blog/intelligence-has-a-lawful-meaning)

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

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July 24, 2026·2 min read

## [Code written by agents still gets reviewed](https://hurukan.com/blog/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

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July 10, 2026·2 min read

## [Compute is a market, not a subscription](https://hurukan.com/blog/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

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