The Sign You Didn’t See
A product manager, a CFO, and a skeptic hear the word "agile." None of them are talking about the same thing. None of them know it.
Words are Vague
Want proof that context is everything? Watch someone say "let him cook" about a person dominating a debate. Now watch someone else say "he's cooked" about the same person losing the next one.
Elon Musk is gaming with his brother. He gets wrecked. "I'm cooked!" he yells.
Meanwhile, somewhere on X, a fan watches Elon dismantle a competitor's argument and posts: "Let him cook."
Same root word. Opposite meanings. Cooking means dominating, winning, being on fire. Cooked means toast, burnt, washed up, destroyed. It's only a tiny 4-letter word, but everything rides on context.
Schrodinger's I-Pad
The gap between probabilistic output and deterministic expectation is where business risk lives. So the engineering problem isn't "add more constraints." It's "where does this tool fit?" When you ask an LLM to validate data, approve a workflow, or check a compliance flag, you're asking a dice roll to behave like a Newton's cradle. It's a bold move, one that will inevitably fail.
From Knowing to Doing
You can't successfully automate the unknown. And you definitely can't hand it to an AI agent that doesn't understand the process it's supposed to execute.
Tacit knowledge capture
How do you capture your employees knowledge before it walks out the door? Writing is a secondary form of information transmission. Speaking is the one everyone is born with.
The Tacit Knowledge Problem
Every organization has that one performer that everyone relies on, their knowledge, skill, and intuition. But how do you capture that knowledge when they decide to leave?
Implementing Ethical AI Systems: Dual-Factor Agency, As a Marker of Manipulation or Disempowerment in AI Strategy Implementation
How are AI Implementation Strategies impacted by the principle of Agency? Is there a better way to think of agency outside of mere subjective experience? Here we propose part one of a framework for ethical AI implementation based on a marriage of complex adaptive systems and psychology.
The Promethean Fire: Rethinking AI Through Human-Centered Development
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Cogent Gray LLC is now an SBA Certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business.
