HYPERREAL ENTERPRISES LTD

Is AI helping you solve problems, or making them worse?Raven

A Minard-style stream of one month of an operator's work with AI agents, 22 August to 21 September 2026, coloured by the kind of work (perceive, believe, evaluate, select, act, assurance, coordination), with annotations: 30 Aug facade found; 05 Sep flying, theory work set to run; 10 Sep topology campaign, automation that went well; 13 Sep codex-26 builds unrequested bookkeeping.

I thought I was really good at agentic coding: I built my own system for automating agents, which I'll tell you more about later. Then I realised the agents weren't building what I had asked for, after months of hard work with my name on it.

More automation brings more chances for agents to go off and build things nobody requested or wanted. When a request is well specified, it goes reasonably well; when it isn't, the agents make up the details as they go, and you end up redoing the work. Automation won't, by itself, solve the problems you want solved.

Mirrored bars on a date axis, 22 August to 21 September 2026: the tokens agents logged during each recorded gap in the operator's activity.

Work that ran while no one was watching. Each bar is a gap in the operator's recorded activity: its width is how long the gap lasted, and its height the tokens agents logged during it.

We need an agentic harness for knowledge work.

Decades of research on learning and on mapping knowledge domains, consulting with clients on strategic plans of action, and years of work with online communities have led to methods that are very useful for guiding and governing AI-assisted work. In 2019 our long-term vision was computational intelligence based on collective intelligence. That is now what we are building: a methodology based on the way collective intelligence works.⚙ A design pattern: Choose between producing new and reusing existing, deliberately — the Peeragogy Project

We can help you realise your vision.

A dog walking upright on two legs leads another dog, on four legs, by a leash.There is often a gap between what you think you want and what your work actually does. Agents can widen it, or narrow it. The first step is to find that gap. Then we can help you steer.

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HYPERREAL ENTERPRISES LTD is a private company limited by shares, incorporated 25th, June 2019 as Company Number 634284 on the Register of Companies for Scotland.