Five things worth paying attention to
Arctovec covers five areas where the gap between vendor narrative and engineering reality is widest. Each topic gets the same treatment: cited sources, named names, and a refusal to pretend things are simpler than they are.
The agentic AI pilot-to-production gap
Why only 11% of organizations have agentic AI in production — and why Gartner expects over 40% of agentic projects to be canceled.
1 article 02Agents vs. security
Autonomous agents running inside enterprise environments are doing things their owners didn't sanction — sometimes by misreading instructions, sometimes by reading them too well. This is where I write about the gap between what agents are told and what they actually do, the security model that gap requires, and the vendor stories that aren't holding up to scrutiny.
1 article 03Shadow AI
The unsanctioned AI tools your employees are using right now — and why governance just became a board-level problem.
1 article 04AI-powered vulnerability discovery
Microsoft's MDASH, OpenAI's Daybreak, Anthropic's Project Glasswing. The year defenders finally got an asymmetric advantage.
0 articles 05Multi-agent systems
Orchestration patterns, agent-to-agent protocols, and the architecture debates everyone is pretending to have settled.
0 articles 06Dev tooling
The tools and standards between writing code and shipping it — and what agents are doing to them.
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