Dominic Plouffe
Entrepreneur / CTO. I help technical leaders understand the agent landscape — and what breaks when you bring LLMs into real data systems.
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What I focus on
I write for CTOs and technical leaders who want clarity, not hype.
Agents
How agent systems actually behave in production — tool use, reliability, and failure modes.
Big Data + LLMs
Where LLMs help, where they hallucinate, and how to connect them to real datasets safely.
Retail Analytics
Pragmatic metrics, attribution tradeoffs, and the gap between dashboards and decisions.
PPC Analytics
What good looks like when spend is real, data is messy, and stakeholders want answers fast.
Start here
Three posts to get oriented.
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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…
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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…
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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”…
Latest writing
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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 furiously trains a model, they throw the weights up on a public…
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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 keep seeing whenever a hot new agent platform shows up: breathless demos…
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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 in the world. But the toolchain around agents is still largely "bolt-on":…
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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 — it’s a change in failure modes. We’re finally treating AI as systems…
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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 features), you’re already in it. Because the moment an agent can do…
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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 thought experiment. Agents—those stitched-together, multi-step, networked LLM workflows—are being pitched into production…