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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

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AI May Give Star Employees More Bargaining Power

This paper argues that generative AI may not flatten performance differences in knowledge work. It may widen them, especially when star employees have the judgment, autonomy, and reputation to turn AI into portable bargaining power.
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Compute Is Not a Commodity

This paper argues that AI compute is not a simple commodity input. Chip architecture, energy use, software, training workloads, inference workloads, and policy all change what one more unit of compute really means.
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AI Costs Need a Control Plane

This SSRN preprint argues that enterprise AI cost management needs its own operating model because generative AI spend is driven by usage, ownership, governance, and workflow design.
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The CEO Sets the AI Operating Model

A Strategy & Leadership paper argues that CEOs lead AI transformation through generalist, expert, or disruptive operating models, each with different risks.
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Context Engineering Is the New Systems Layer

A broad survey argues that the hard part of useful AI systems is no longer prompt wording. It is deciding what information reaches the model, when, and under what constraints.
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Agents Are Reasoning Loops, Not Smart Prompts

A broad survey argues that agentic AI is best understood as reasoning through action: planning, tool use, search, memory, feedback, and coordination across time.
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Agent Skills Need a Trust Layer

A new survey argues that agent skills are becoming the packaging layer for procedural AI work. That makes governance, permissions, and verification unavoidable.
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The Agent Is the Whole System

A new survey argues that agent quality is a system property: models, memory, tools, planners, verifiers, permissions, traces, and evaluation all matter.
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