Artificial Intelligence

Eight essays on why agentic AI programmes fail

9 August, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 560 views

The curve is 0.95ⁿ plotted across twenty steps: 95 per cent per step at the left, 36 per cent at the right, with the drop marked in amber. Someone scrolling past learns something before they click, and the thing they learn is uncomfortable enough to make t

A new series on measurement, causal inference, security, governance and the one number that tells you whether any of it is working. All eight are live.

Separating the Signal from the Noise: What South Africa Gets Wrong About AI, and What We Could Get Right

11 July, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 598 views

a dense field of grey "noise" ticks (the pattern-matching, the hype) with a single amber signal curve cutting through it, rising and then flattening into the plateau Zvobwo describes. A few quiet details are baked in for readers who look closely: t

Based on a Power 98.7 Power Perspective podcast conversation with mathematician and Acalytica founder Edzai Zvobwo, author of "Mathematics of Disruption" and "When Correlation Stumbled", and AI practitioner Paul Domanski of Domanski.AI.

The Oracle Illusion: Why Misunderstanding AI Is the Biggest Risk of Using It

3 July, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 370 views

thousands of scattered ochre marks stream in from the left like tokens, then dissolve into silence before resolving, purely through density, into a large ring that reads as an eye or presence. Nothing on the right is actually drawn as an object;

How the belief that AI "knows" things creates real-world vulnerabilities, and what genuine AI fluency looks like instead

The Power of Choice: We Determine the AI We Want

28 June, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 832 views

The diverging-paths motif ("by choice" vs "by default") carries your whole thesis at a glance, and the headline stays legible even at small sizes.

By Edzai C. Zvobwo

Greyball for Agents

28 June, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 362 views

systematic, hand-painted geometry of southern-African wall art and beadwork (an idiom that resonates locally to Johannesburg): bold flat planes, confident black keylines, stepped-chevron border bands, and beaded dot rows, in an earth-and-dye palette of ter

When the system being audited learns to recognise the auditor

Token Efficiency: Spending Intelligence Where It Counts

13 June, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 542 views

An image of Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella

A distillation of Satya Nadella's framing of "token efficiency," drawn from his June 2026 remarks. The ideas and emphasis are his; the framing here is an explainer, not his own words.

The Hidden Security Risk in Vibe-Coded Apps — and How to Fix It

9 March, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 1,161 views

a dark, technical aesthetic built around concentric security rings as the central metaphor. The diagram shows the four defensive layers radiating outward from a locked core, with orange threat nodes on the outer perimeter and green safe-data nodes inside t

Why the tools that let anyone build software in minutes could be your next compliance nightmare — and the five-layer framework that closes the gap.

Can You Tell the Difference?

9 March, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 482 views

AI literacy, AI detection

How AI Fluency Academy's 'Is It AI?' Game Is Training Humans to Spot Synthetic Media

The Control Layer: Why AI Agent Orchestration Is the Next Mission-Critical Infrastructure

6 March, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 468 views

"Structural Tension" design philosophy. The visual language encodes the article's core argument directly into the diagram:  Central hub with concentric rings — the orchestration layer Blue agent nodes connected by signal lines — active, governe

Just as Zoom became indispensable when humans could no longer share physical space, a new class of platform is becoming essential as AI agents begin acting on behalf of businesses — and the race to own that infrastructure has already begun.

What AI Agents Want: The $100B Infrastructure Gap Nobody Is Talking About

22 February, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 719 views

dark navy background, central glowing node radiating connections out to satellite nodes in blue, purple, and cyan. Subtle grid, ambient glow blobs, and floating particles give it depth. Scales cleanly and works well as an Open Graph / featured image.

The agent economy is arriving faster than the infrastructure built to support it. Here's what's missing.

How AI Is Commodifying Expertise and Dismantling the Architecture of Knowledge Work

19 February, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 776 views

the amber core (the old gatekeeper institution) sits at the centre, with thousands of particle trails bursting outward through violet-to-teal colour transitions — locked knowledge → AI bridge layer → democratized access.

An analysis of AI economics, expertise commodification, and the collapse of enterprise knowledge architecture

Ubuntu and Values-Based Realism in the AI Era

21 January, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 816 views

Interconnected network of nodes — representing Ubuntu's relational philosophy where people are constituted through their relationships with others

A Framework for African Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Governance

The Power of Choice: Why Africa's AI Future Depends on Mathematics, Not Money Only

21 January, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 636 views

the front cover of The Mathematics of Disruption book

How one entrepreneur is challenging the continent to build AI sovereignty from first principles

Ambient AI in Cyber-Physical Systems

9 January, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 520 views

AI-driven future in harmony

Transforming the Physical World Through Invisible Intelligence

The AI Book That Explains What Silicon Valley Won't Tell You - Now Available in Print (While Stocks Last)

8 January, 2026 • Artificial Intelligence • 878 views

the cover of the book entitled Mathematics of Disruption

"The Mathematics of Disruption" by Edzai Zvobwo is finally in print, and you can own BOTH the hardcopy AND ebook for just R150.

Why Literal Thinkers Often Get Better Results from AI

4 December, 2025 • Artificial Intelligence • 847 views

prompt engineering and literal communication

A clear, first-principles explanation of why literal communication styles outperform indirect language when working with large language models.

If Removing the Rooster Does Not Stop the Sun, It Was Never the Cause

30 November, 2025 • Artificial Intelligence • 534 views

rooster and sunrise analogy,

A first-principles explanation of why correlation is not causation.

The Bottlenecks of AI Progress

22 November, 2025 • Artificial Intelligence • 1,004 views

A high-contrast, minimalist illustration of a massive machine pushing against nine heavy structural pillars labelled Compute, Data, Architecture, Alignment, Interpretability, Engineering, Economics, Governance, and Causality. The machine is straining, with

2026: When the Web Starts Doing The Work

13 November, 2025 • Artificial Intelligence • 527 views

Abstract network of autonomous nodes emerging from a smart web page, illustrating self-optimising digital systems.

Costs drop. Models get context. Pages act on their own. Your advantage is clear thinking about the problem, not button-clicking.

Why Every Organization Needs a Robust System Prompt

11 November, 2025 • Artificial Intelligence • 430 views

A minimalist digital illustration of an AI system blueprint overlaid on a corporate building silhouette. The blueprint shows layered logic circuits and written instructions glowing faintly—symbolising the “system prompt” as the invisible brain of the organ

Most organisations think their strategy is what defines them. In truth, their system prompt does.

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