Artificial intelligence in business used to look like a clever parlor trick. It could write emails, summarize documents, and maybe even draft some marketing copy, but it could not really do the work. Over the past year or two, that has changed dramatically as agentic AI has emerged, turning simple, responsive chatbots into goal-driven workers that can take meaningful and valuable action in real systems, follow multi-step plans, and operate inside real governance.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 03/31/2026
Our columnist explores the question, and offers some answers.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 01/20/2026
The era of merely experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) is over. Today, organizations and innovators require truly practical applications that deliver measurable business value and superior business outcomes, integrating seamlessly into everyday operations. The interface for creating value is moving from visual tools and fixed logic toward natural language conversation with sophisticated generative models.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 11/19/2025
While most companies debate how to integrate AI, Stockholm-based payments giant Klarna has already run the full experiment—and the numbers are stark.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 10/22/2025
When former OpenAI scientist and former Tesla Senior Director of AI Andrej Karpathy first posted on X, "There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists," it’s likely he didn’t foresee the firestorm he was about to spark.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 09/23/2025
This column is the product of an ongoing hunt for companies that use AI for more than simply writing emails and creating prettier pictures of their executives. Although many seem content treating artificial intelligence like an increasingly more expensive toy, I've been seeking people and organizations that understand the true potential of this technology: systematically improving business outcomes through intelligent automation.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 08/07/2025
Our columnist offers a second opinion on the dire predictions about the future of AI, suggested by the advent of Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 05/15/2025
Our columnist holds forth on the role of interoperability in the evolution of technology, and the new demands for Agentic interoperability.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 04/22/2025
From the humble PDA to AI agents, our columnist muses on the evolution of the AI human interface.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 04/15/2025
"Despite much recent conversation about low-code/no-code (LCNC) being replaced by AI-generated applications," our columnist advises, citizen developers should be in no rush to abandon their favorite LCNC tools. It would seem that the developers of those platforms are carefully navigating the path from point-drag-click to natural language requests."
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 03/25/2025