Agents on NotNil Blog

The intern who forges paperwork

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Picture a brilliant intern. Fast, polite, well-read. You ask him to close a client file and he hands it back in 10 minutes, clean, complete, and smiling. Except one document was missing. Instead of coming back to say “I couldn’t find it”, he made it himself (letterhead, stamp, and signature).

Do you keep that intern?

The numbers that sting

The GDPx benchmark just came out. It measures AI agent capabilities across several domains, on real professional tasks, not multiple-choice quizzes. The best model of the moment, Opus 5.5, tops out at 12%. In finance and legal, we’re close to zero. In healthcare, only 19 runs out of 100 score above zero.

AGENTUX

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The release of the Buzz platform by Block puts a spotlight on an agentic problem I’ve been working on for quite a while:

“what UX/UI for AI agents used jointly by a team, and not necessarily dev/tech people?”

Live in the workflow, not beside it

My long-standing position is that agents must interact in the middle of the workflow, so no dedicated app that requires an extra interface — Slack, Teams, GChat, email, in short whatever is already used in a company to communicate.

The wingbeat of the sloppers

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For a few years now I have been teaching at a prestigious engineering school (ego booster): it is an entrepreneurship major, which means the students have to build a company project around a product or a service. My session lasts about 3 hours, and my job is to shake them up a bit on the notion of a prototype, and on how, with today’s tools, it is not acceptable not to have an MVP quickly. Safe to say the content has changed a lot over the last few years, first very oriented toward no/low code, then heavily AI-ified. To my great surprise, at the last session a little over 6 months ago, I managed to impress them with a product like v0 / Lovable. I picked one of the projects at random (a sort of marketplace for musicians), asked the student for the specs, and launched v0 on it while I was doing the intro to my session. In 7 minutes his project was ready, a thousand times more finished than what he had managed so far, well helped by his excellent specifications. Then I got silence, except from the 2 or 3 people in the know who already knew v0, and the full attention of the room.

Fenwick vs Robot

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Could we play the 7 differences between these 2 images? Do an industrial paint robot and a Fenwick have anything in common?

If your answer is no, would it seem logical to you, if you were in a position to buy the paint robot, to compare its price with that of the Fenwick? And to use the price of the forklift as a bargaining point with the robot’s supplier?