top of page
Search
All Posts


A year of counter-narrative
The future of AI in enterprise isn't more autonomy. It's better orchestration.
Not every process needs an agent. Most need better process definition, deterministic scaffolding, and AI carefully applied at specific decision points where human judgment is genuinely required.
The companies that win won't be the ones with the most "agentic" systems. They'll be the ones who know exactly when to use AI and, more importantly, when not to.
manuelnunes8
Oct 284 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Expensive Digital Yes-Men
Conversations compound context. Each exchange adds weight. The further you go in the wrong direction, the harder it becomes to course-correct. It's like realizing you're on the wrong highway twenty miles in, yes, you can turn around, but you've already paid the cost in time, frustration and distance.
manuelnunes8
Oct 133 min read
Â
Â
Â


The CoE Survival Trap
One of the unexpected gifts of the AI revolution is that it's bending time for CoEs in ways we couldn't have imagined a decade ago. Tasks that used to consume weeks happen in hours. This acceleration creates something CoEs have rarely had: capacity to think strategically instead of just execute tactically.
manuelnunes8
Sep 243 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Probabilistic Tax
We've been building an AI-powered product for the past year. And when you build, you debug. We've learned something counterintuitive: our biggest performance killer isn't bad AI models or poor data quality.
It's using AI where you don't need it.
Building in AI means that shortcuts present themselves in the form of LLM interactions. Each of these shortcuts can seem appealing—they're fast to implement—yet there's a hidden cost. Every LLM interaction introduces a probabilist
manuelnunes8
Sep 172 min read
Â
Â
Â


On the Topic of Workflow Autonomy
If you define agentic AI (in the context of automation) as goal-oriented workflows with a high degree of autonomy, I'd argue that most Intelligent Automation programmes aren't yet there. I'd also argue that perhaps the number of use cases suitable for true autonomy is smaller than the marketing hype suggests.
manuelnunes8
Sep 42 min read
Â
Â
Â


Déjà Vu: Is Applied AI 2025, RPA 2015?
A new MIT study just dropped news that shouldn't surprise anyone in the automation trenches: 95% of generative AI implementations have zero measurable impact on company P&L. (Anyone remember RPA overpromising?)
manuelnunes8
Aug 263 min read
Â
Â
Â


Why Your Next Automation Project Probably Doesn't Need AI Agents
The intelligent automation world has caught a fever. Everyone's convinced that static rules are dead, that the future belongs exclusively...
manuelnunes8
Aug 202 min read
Â
Â
Â


Services-as-Software
Time and material (T&M) contracts have been the backbone of the services industry for decades. The premise seems straightforward: clients...
manuelnunes8
Jun 42 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page
