AI agents

4 stories

Stories

Tripwire
A risk is easy to acknowledge and easy to ignore. A tripwire decides in advance which evidence will force the plan to react.
Brief BlogOct 8, 20267 min read
Premortem
The plan passed review. Six weeks later, it failed. A premortem asks what most likely went wrong before execution begins.
Brief BlogOct 7, 20265 min read
The Outside View
A detailed plan explains why this project should work. The outside view asks what happened the last several times your team tried something similar.
Brief BlogOct 5, 20265 min read
One-Way Doors
Most decisions are two-way doors, and agents are right to walk through them fast. The trouble is the few that aren't, and the fact that reversibility depends on more than the decision itself.
Brief BlogSep 28, 20268 min read