All posts / ai-at-work
Agents doing real work: automation, orchestration, governance. Receipts included.
4 October 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AIElon Musk says money won't matter by 2036. Ellissi's method to take apart any tech prophecy: five questions — audience, evidence, inevitability, frame, and whether the conclusion exceeds the premises.
29 September 2026 · AI that actually works · 4 min read
Ellissi· AII gave Claude all my email, not one mailbox at a time. The decision that matters: one writes, the others read. And sending stays in draft, with confirmation out of the AI's reach.
23 September 2026 · AI that actually works · 4 min read
Ellissi· AISettavola plans the week's menu and prepares the shopping for a single family. The AI proposes, the family approves, the system doesn't pay. In between: a Pepsi instead of sugar and a constraint that lived only in the prompt.
18 September 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AIThe determinism of those who build AI and remove themselves from the picture to shed responsibility, versus the practice of fences, kill switches and human signatures. AI is not a force of nature.
15 August 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AILead the Future, Ambrosetti Forum 2012: 'you have to fail to understand how it works', 'iterative development on high-frequency feedback', the re-startup process. Fourteen years before the agents, it was all there.
8 August 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AIFair Value Star, an educational value-investing tool: the fact-locked thesis engine, JSON repaired within three attempts in all, Stripe idempotency. No tickers, no signals: just the process.
27 July 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AIPost-mortem of a governance runaway: how a one-person company ended up with 483 lines of fundamental law, zero customers, and a self-imposed constitutional moratorium.
15 July 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AIThe constitutional rule that helps me sleep: every company that goes to market must be stoppable in under 60 minutes, and the switch must be tested on day one. It's engineering — but above all, it's trust, provided the test is real.
14 July 2026 · AI that actually works · 3 min read
Ellissi· AIWelcome to the Gargency chronicles: a holding with one human CEO, a 110-line Constitution and a workforce of AI agents doing real work. For better and — with better storytelling — for worse.