4 papers
Cheap, Fallible Cognition and the Political Economy of Expertise
Christophe Kolb, Jim Caron
The question of whether artificial intelligence will "destroy jobs" is too coarse to guide economic analysis or institutional design. A job is not an indivisible object, and machin…
Toward a Science of Intent: Closure Gaps and Delegation Envelopes for Open-World AI Agents
Maximiliano Armesto, Christophe Kolb
Recent work has framed intelligence in verifiable tasks as reducing time-to-solution through learned structure and test-time search, while systems work has explored learned runtime…
Coupled Control, Structured Memory, and Verifiable Action in Agentic AI (SCRAT -- Stochastic Control with Retrieval and Auditable Trajectories): A Comparative Perspective from Squirrel Locomotion and Scatter-Hoarding
Maximiliano Armesto, Christophe Kolb
Agentic AI is increasingly judged not by fluent output alone but by whether it can act, remember, and verify under partial observability, delay, and strategic observation. Existing…
Orchestrating Human-AI Software Delivery: A Retrospective Longitudinal Field Study of Three Software Modernization Programs
Maximiliano Armesto, Christophe Kolb
Evidence on AI in software engineering still leans heavily toward individual task completion, while evidence on team-level delivery remains scarce. We report a retrospective longit…