AI Opinion & Analysis
Agentic AI is the phrase every vendor deck and every board meeting is chasing this year. It is also, for most of the companies rushing to deploy it, a mistake they have not noticed yet. I say this as someone who thinks agents are genuinely useful. That is exactly why the current stampede worries me.
Read more: Everyone is shipping AI agents. Most of them should not be.
I am instinctively allergic to tech regulation written by people who have never shipped anything. A lot of the EU AI Act fits that description. It is late, convoluted, and parts of it will age badly. And yet, reading through what actually takes effect in 2026, I keep landing somewhere uncomfortable: most of it is the kind of thing the industry should have done on its own and did not.
Read more: The EU AI Act is messy, late, and probably necessary
There are enough AI blogs. Most of them read like a press release with the serial numbers filed off. This one is trying to be the thing I actually wanted to read: written by someone who uses these tools every day, likes them more than is probably healthy, and still reads the fine print.