Month: July 2026

This is the third article in the “Leading A Team that’s Part Machine” series. You can read the introduction here and the second article about what constitutes a true agent here. In this article, I will cover the work I assigned to my agents, their costs and my decision to explore local AI. Work-wise, my goals for a team of agents fell into two categories: The first was personal, the second commercial. Personal: Learn about AI by spinning up my own team of agents, doing real work and seeing how it impacts project management Managing my to-do items across my full-time job, side projects and writing calendar Task automation to reduce the time I spend on admin and other repetitive […]

My Why My trial of agentic AI started as an experiment. A proof-of-concept I would explore, maybe write about, and then stop. It turned into the most fun and stimulating, but also scary and frustrating experience I have had with IT for decades. Not since I learned code in the 1980’s have I been so excited about a technology. It has rekindled my love for IT and got me really excited about the next chapter of management: Managing hybrid teams that consist of: People People using AI to be more productive Autonomous agent team members I did not retire my prototype; instead, I bought dedicated hardware for it and have gone deep. However, that story is for later articles. For […]