Dominic Plouffe
Entrepreneur / CTO. I write for technical leaders who want clarity on agents, big data, and what breaks in production.
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Latest writing
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Tiny Experiments to Reclaim Your Focus
Design tiny experiments to reclaim focus Most productivity advice asks for dramatic overhauls: new tools, new schedules, or a complete…
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Packaging Beats Peak Performance
Packaging beats peak performance: why open-source models stall at the doorstep There’s a pattern I keep seeing: an engineering team…
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Agents Need Contracts, Not More Brains
Why the next decade of agents will be decided by their contracts, not their brains There’s a familiar pattern I…
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Agents need built-in security, not bolt-on audits
Problem Organizations are racing to deploy agentic systems — assistants that act on our behalf, call tools, and change state…
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Agents Are Here — Build with an Action Firewall
Title: Agents Are Here — Build with an Action Firewall Hook: The agent era is not a feature release —…
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The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org (rewrite draft)
Here’s a fun new job title that nobody asked for: AI babysitter. If you’re shipping agents (or even “just” tool-calling…
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The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org
The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org Enterprise AI is no longer a…
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Agents on the Desktop: What It Means to Put an Agent Between You and the OS
Agents on the Desktop: What It Means to Put an Agent Between You and the OS Problem: we handed developers…
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Agents at the Gates: Why Your Open-Source Agent Is the New Attack Surface
Agents at the Gates: Why Your Open-Source Agent Is the New Attack Surface We’ve crossed from “language toy” to “active…