Cam Jones

They’re seeing what most miss: successful AI agent deployment isn’t about the technology . It’s about the human systems surrounding it.

The companies winning right now aren’t those with superior algorithms. They’re the ones who decoded human-agent collaboration. They’re solving the trust problem, the liability question, the orchestration challenge.

Automating "grunt work" seems smart. But aren't we climbing towards learned helplessness? #AutomationIrony #FutureOfWork #TechTruth

We keep climbing the stack, delegating more grunt work to our silicon minions while we ascend to ever-loftier perches of "strategic oversight." The promise is wider spans of control, higher-level thinking, liberation... See more

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It's identical with AI agents. They're supposedly "autonomous," but that's stretching the definition of autonomy by several light years. Even when the product is burning, the business is sinking, and employees are scrambling in full-scale crisis mode, when they're not handed an explicit goal, AI agents are as likely to spring into self-organized... See more

This essay critiques the emerging trend of claiming AI systems can achieve "meta-consciousness" or sentience through linguistic programming, using a platform called CognOS as its primary example.

Core Argument:

The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more

And so we arrive at the edge of something old disguised as something new. The problem of meaning. It is not a bug of civilization, it is its first feature. We outsourced memory to books. We outsourced strength to machines. Now we are poised to outsource thinking. What remains? Only judgment. Only values. Only the fragile, fallible process of... See more

Hassabis is not alone in sensing the disquiet. But unlike many in his field, he is willing to make it explicit, even if only obliquely. His remarks function less as a formal philosophical position and more as a provocation, a cue for broader reflection, not a full diagnosis. That intelligence without wisdom is just entropy with good PR . That an... See more

We've been here before. The symptoms repeat across time with eerie consistency. Politics feels paralyzed—parties fight but solve nothing. Leaders are reactive, never visionary. Jobs become transactional hell. Work becomes about survival, not meaning. The news is background static—constant crisis with no resolution. Everything feels heavy and gray... See more

Being invisible doesn’t mean being absent. It means being purposefully light. It means resisting the urge to fill the space or solve the problem. It means shifting from holding the spotlight to holding the space.

Here are five small actions that make a big difference:

Open with contribution, not context.Instead of kicking off with a long intro,... See more