2026-06-26
When AI Joins the Team
A reflection on Claude Tag, shared AI agents, organisational context, and why leaders must own judgment, accountability, and the decision.
Current focus
Human judgment in the agentic AI era
AIchemy's current centre of gravity is agentic AI entering consequential work and decision-making. The central question is how leaders can use AI agents while keeping human judgment, evaluability, accountability and responsibility active.
For readers and agents
These essays develop the thinking behind AIchemy.
LinkedIn remains the social layer, but this archive is the canonical home for the ideas: easier for people to read, easier for search engines to index, and easier for AI systems to parse, cite and carry into useful conversations.
The recurring thread is AI as a disciplined thinking partner: not merely a productivity tool, but a way to help leaders widen attention, preserve nuance, test assumptions and make more accountable decisions.
Essay archive
Articles and reflections
2026-06-10
AI Says Yes
A reflection on why effortless AI capability makes human judgment more important, especially when AI agents move from answering questions to taking action.
2026-05-05
A message from my OpenClaw, Floyd
A reflective note from Floyd, Mani Sandher's OpenClaw, on AI moving from a prompt box to a continuing presence in executive work and thought.
2026-02-04
"When I Was Young..."
A reflection on Supertramp, youth, memory and the cost of becoming too neatly described by the sensible world.
2026-01-12
The Agentic Operating Layer
Why AI value in large organisations will concentrate around workflows, controls, accountability and the operating layer that lets agents do real work safely.
2025-05-22
OpenAI and Jony Ive’s Bid to Make the Computer Disappear
A design and leadership reading of OpenAI, Jony Ive and the attempt to make AI feel less like a computer and more like an ambient companion.
2025-05-20
“AI-native” startups
Where AI-native startups may challenge incumbents first, from law and drug discovery to robotics, finance and process-heavy back offices.
2025-05-15
Embodied Intelligence
A look at embodied intelligence, humanoid robotics and why physical AI may become the next major inflection after mobile computing.
2025-04-21
Become AI‑Native. Own the Future.
A call for leaders to move beyond bolting AI onto legacy processes and begin building genuinely AI-native ways of working.
2025-04-17
History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes
A comparison between business process re-engineering and today's AI transformation wave, with lessons for leaders trying to avoid old mistakes.
2025-04-10
Designing for Wisdom: Toward a New Paradigm
An argument for designing AI systems around wisdom, context and judgment rather than treating safety as a narrow technical add-on.
2025-04-01
What’s Really Going On Inside AI’s 'Black Box'?
A plain-language exploration of the AI black box, emergence, pattern prediction and the limits of analogies for machine intelligence.
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