The Clueless Prince: Statecraft for New Developers
Mo Shehu, PhD
29 July 2026
AI turned developers into clueless princes governing code they didn’t write. On statecraft, rot, and why hiring hasn’t caught up.
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AI turned developers into clueless princes governing code they didn’t write. On statecraft, rot, and why hiring hasn’t caught up.
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The computer experiences every function, branch, and retry. We throw almost all of that away and spend hours guessing from the crumbs.
Authorship lives in ideas, judgment, and responsibility, not in whether every word was typed by hand.
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Companies keep fusing multiple roles into one and pricing it below market for the cheapest component. Everybody loses.
Every AI tool keeps a partial copy of you. Moving context to the OS would end the duplication, if injection and self-preference can be handled.
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A topic-by-topic guide to the best AI speakers in the UK, from agentic AI and workflows to deepfakes, governance, and copyright.
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B2B agentic procurement sounds simple in a demo, but contracts, approval chains, and pricing opacity make it harder. Here’s what procurement teams should do now.
How IT infrastructure engineers in banking use AI: research, deployment planning, and source-checked troubleshooting inside on-prem constraints.
What @Claude Tag means for enterprise lock-in and pricing, plus the Salesforce and Microsoft agents already inside Slack and Teams.
The product thinking behind how a downgraded plugin pushed me to build SM Snippets: a free, private, local WordPress snippet manager.
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Agentic commerce statistics and benchmarks from McKinsey, Gartner, Adobe, Salesforce, and more, covering AI shopping agent market size, adoption, reliability, and the law.
An AI agent shops with your money, but whose rules does it follow? Inside the defaults, ranking functions, and conflicts behind agentic commerce governance.
When an AI agent buys the wrong thing, who pays? Inside chargebacks, Section 75, the CMA, AB 316, AI insurance, and the new dispute protocols.
Agentic commerce needs more than spend limits. Every agent must prove who it is, who sent it, what it can do, and which human, account, card, and rules bind the transaction.
Rules can’t cover every purchase. Judgment is how an AI shopping agent decides the cases you didn’t plan for—and a seller can steer that decision.
An AI agent can reach checkout, but what goes in the basket? Layer 3 of agentic commerce: rules files, budgets, brand preferences, and substitution logic.
Agent shopping needs machine-readable stores and new payment rails. Inside Layer 2 of agentic commerce: MCP, ACP, UCP, AP2, and merchant readiness.
AI shopping agents can now buy groceries, laptops, and more. Here’s a look at what works today, why the demos impress, and where execution still breaks.
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AI recommendation poisoning hides instructions in buttons, blog copy, and product pages to bias what your AI recommends. How it works, why it sucks, and how to defend against it.
From fabricated evidence to biased facial recognition, here’s what AI hallucination costs law enforcement, and how police forces can use AI safely.
AI isn’t replacing human intelligence officers. It’s corroding the trust HUMINT depends on, across the EU, China, Africa, and the US, and raising the premium on human judgment.
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A practitioner’s guide to agentic AI in healthcare: use cases, examples, market data, FDA and EU rules, and the four questions to ask before adoption.
A content workflow is the repeatable process a piece of content moves through, from idea to publish. Here are the stages, roles, and how to build one.
Is it fair to use AI in candidate screening? Peer-reviewed studies, candidate backlash, and enforcement challenges suggest otherwise.
Synthetic data speeds up research, but it captures a snapshot in time. Here’s where it helps, where it fails, and what to do instead.
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Seven legal workflows AI handles well, the legal work it shouldn’t own, and a readiness map for law firms adopting AI tools safely.
An AI agent reasons, calls tools, and acts toward a goal on its own. Learn how agents work, see three examples, and find out when to use one.
AI agents pay a token tax when your site serves an HTML response. Here’s how markdown negotiation works and how to enable it on WordPress in one step.
Agentic commerce lets AI agents buy on your behalf. Learn the standards that make an ecommerce store readable to them, and what to do first.
AI agents are a growing share of web visitors. Use this website agent readiness checklist, plus a free plugin, to make your site readable to them.
Every major AI agent framework from LangGraph to n8n compared, with orchestration models, MCP support, and a use-case decision guide for technical teams.
How I made a WordPress site readable to AI agents: markdown negotiation, content signals, well-known endpoints, and the firewall traps along the way.
70% of public servants use AI outside approved channels. For finance teams handling taxpayer data, that creates measurable breach risk.
From Recursion to Butterfly Network, here are the top AI healthcare startups to watch—spanning drug discovery, imaging, clinical ops, and mental health, with funding and traction detail.
What is AI model distillation? A plain breakdown of how it works, where teams use it, and why AI companies block its abuse.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 today. Here’s a breakdown of benchmarks, safety classifiers, pricing, and availability.
RPA built healthcare automation, and agentic AI now extends it. Understand where each fits, the governance risks, and what to do with current RPA software investments.
An analysis of 67 US LinkedIn listings reveals what employers actually want from a Chief AI Officer. Includes a copy-paste CAIO job description template, salary benchmarks, and the seven role types behind the title.
Most teams govern every AI agent the same way. The agentic AI autonomy spectrum shows why each autonomy level needs different controls.