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Agentic Work Needs a Contract, Not Just a Goal
Why enterprise agents need explicit boundaries around responsibility, outcomes, acceptance criteria and execution — not just a natural-language goal.
Oct 1
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Anand Saranath
Whatever Happened to Nanotechnology?
A look back at what nanotechnology promised, what it actually delivered, and what its journey can teach us about AI, enterprise transformation, and the…
Sep 20
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Anand Saranath
AI Agents Are Systems, Not Colleagues
What makes an AI component an agent, and where should its authority end? A practical examination of agent responsibilities, contracts, delegation and…
Sep 10
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Anand Saranath
Architecture Between the What and the How
Over three months, I used an AI assistant to help develop nearly 190 user stories for a platform I have been architecting.
Sep 4
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The Illusion of Autonomous Intelligence
In one of our product workflows, we made what initially seemed like a natural architectural choice.
Aug 10
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The Debates That Shaped Our Architecture
Part 2 of 2 — The challenges, counter-arguments and resolutions that shaped the architecture
Jun 15
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Architecture-as-Specification: An Architect-AI Journey
Part 1 of 2 — The journey, the process, and the outcome
Jun 8
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Architecture Emerges Through Resolved Tension
Why the best architectural decisions are the ones that survived a fight
May 25
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Architecture Stops Being Documentation
When architecture starts behaving like specification
May 24
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AI Didn’t Design My Architecture — It Refused to Let Me Be Vague
A month-long architecture exercise that changed how I think about precision, collaboration, and the role of AI.
Apr 26
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Agentic Workflows in the Enterprise: Open-Ended vs. Bounded Autonomy
How enterprises can give AI room to reason without giving it unlimited authority to act.
Mar 12
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