Flagship talk
There Is No Agent.
A journey from a water-powered logic gate to a production agent—and why nothing along the way ever stopped being ordinary.
MODEL+TRANSCRIPT+TOOLS+POLICY+LOOP
Open the interactive talk Talks and workshops
Make the invisible machinery understandable.
I design talks that begin with a simple question, earn the technical detail and leave people able to see the system more clearly than when they arrived.
What the room leaves with
- 01
A model is not the whole system.
It proposes. Other software interprets, authorises and performs the effects.
- 02
Tool calls are proposals, not actions.
Policy, credentials and runtime behaviour are what turn a proposal into a real side effect.
- 03
Production AI is an engineering design problem.
Small work cells, evidence, verification and control planes make the work operable.