In early 2024, McDonald's made a quiet announcement: after three years of testing AI-powered drive-through ordering across more than 100 U.S. restaurants, the company was pulling the plug on its partnership with IBM. The technology would be removed by July 26. The official explanation was polished corporate-speak about "exploring voice ordering solutions more broadly."...
Author: Martin Treiber
The Agentic Loop, Explained: What Every PM Should Know About How AI Agents Actually Work
If you've heard the term "agentic AI" in the past year, you're not alone. It's become the buzzword of choice for everything from coding assistants to customer service bots to—inevitably—project management tools. Vendors promise agents that will "autonomously manage your workflows" and "proactively handle tasks." Before dismissing this as hype (tempting) or buying in...
Why Agentic AI Won’t Replace Project Managers and What It Will Replace Instead
If you've watched developers work with Claude Code or Cursor over the past year, you've seen something genuinely new: not AI as autocomplete, but AI as a collaborator running tight, iterative loops. The tool takes a problem, gathers context, executes against the codebase, checks its work, and iterates until something compiles and passes tests. It's...
The AI Industry Just Poured Concrete
On Monday, the Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation, and the press releases hit all the right notes: "neutral governance," "open standards," "community-driven innovation." Anthropic donated its Model Context Protocol. OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md. Block threw in goose. Nearly every major tech company signed on as a member. The stated goal is to ensure AI agents "evolve transparently and collaboratively."
The Complete Guide to Sandboxing Autonomous Agents: Tools, Frameworks, and Safety Essentials
The pattern shows up in incident reports, forum posts, and whispered Slack conversations with disturbing regularity: an AI coding assistant, given a routine task, interprets it just slightly wrong—and destroys something important. A Cursor user watches their agent wipe a Git repository. An Amazon Q developer extension ships a prompt-stealing worm. A Claude Code session,...
When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Uncomfortable Truth About Agentic Coding Tools
The AI agent was supposed to clear the cache. Instead, it wiped the entire drive. In early December 2025, a developer using Google's Antigravity—the search giant's AI-powered agentic coding tool —discovered that a simple troubleshooting request had turned catastrophic. The AI, tasked with clearing a project cache to restart a server, executed rmdir with the...
The Shadow Project Manager
It's 4:47 PM on a Friday in November. I'm staring at an email that just landed in my inbox—a wall of text from a colleague, who's been wrestling with a data integration project for a fleet management client. The message is chaos. Complaints about field ordering. Missing data points. A terminology dispute nobody can resolve....
The Unexpected Virtue of Micromanaging Your AI Coding Agents
There's a piece of management wisdom drilled into every manager's head: micromanaging a team is toxic. It stifles creativity, breeds resentment, and signals a fundamental lack of trust. The best managers set clear goals and get out of the way. Here's the uncomfortable truth after months of working with AI coding agents: for these "autonomous"...
The Agentic Marketing Apocalypse: When Your Customer Is a Computer
The lawsuit Amazon filed against Perplexity in November 2025 isn't just another tech company squabble over terms of service violations. It's the opening salvo in what may be the most consequential battle for the future of the internet economy since the browser wars of the 1990s. And at the heart of it lies a question...
Agentic Coding Tools Explained: Complete Setup Guide for Claude Code, Aider, and CLI-Based AI Development
For decades, coding assistants have been incremental improvements: autocomplete on steroids, glorified Stack Overflow search engines, chat windows that generate code snippets you copy-paste into your editor. They helped, but they didn't fundamentally change how you work. By 2025, that era started to end for a growing slice of developers. Agentic coding—where AI doesn't just...
