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<item><title>What does an agent cost? Start with the ceiling</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-wat-kost-een-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-wat-kost-een-agent/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>What does an agent cost? Start with the ceiling.</description><category>AI agents</category></item>
<item><title>An agent that reads an email also reads the instructions inside it</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-pagina-is-geen-opdracht/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-pagina-is-geen-opdracht/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>An agent that reads an email also reads the instructions inside it.</description><category>Security</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Limits and control</category></item>
<item><title>A chat window answers, an agent does the work</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-chatvenster-of-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-chatvenster-of-agent/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Many people now use AI every day. They ask a question, get an answer, copy it, paste it somewhere else and do the rest themselves. That is useful. It is also something different from an agent.</description><category>AI agents</category><category>Limits and control</category><category>Books</category></item>
<item><title>You get to know an agent by giving it a real task</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-boek-agent-leren-kennen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-14-boek-agent-leren-kennen/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>You get to know an agent by giving it a real task.</description><category>AI agents</category></item>
<item><title>Being sure who signs on the other side</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-13-video-verificatie/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-13-video-verificatie/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Suppose you want to be sure who is signing on the other side.</description><category>Building apps</category><category>Wantzel Studio</category><category>Security</category></item>
<item><title>An idea no longer goes in the drawer</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-13-idee-in-de-la/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-13-idee-in-de-la/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>In the past an idea went into the drawer, to do something with it in a few years.</description><category>Collaboration</category><category>Work processes</category></item>
<item><title>One process, one task: how to choose where AI begins</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-13-een-proces-een-taak/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-13-een-proces-een-taak/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The question many organisations start with when it comes to AI is: &quot;What can it do?&quot; The answer is almost everything. That is why it so often stays at a presentation, a trial account and a good conversation, while…</description><category>Work processes</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Limits and control</category></item>
<item><title>Start a booking app with the rules, not with code</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-12-begin-met-de-regels/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-12-begin-met-de-regels/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Start a booking app with the rules, not with code.</description><category>Building apps</category><category>Work processes</category><category>AI agents</category></item>
<item><title>A promise in a prompt is not a wall</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-11-belofte-in-prompt-geen-muur/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-11-belofte-in-prompt-geen-muur/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A promise in a prompt is not a wall.</description><category>Limits and control</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Security</category></item>
<item><title>Who may change the main version of your work?</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-10-een-poort-voor-de-hoofdversie/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-10-een-poort-voor-de-hoofdversie/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Who may change the main version of your work? With me the answer is: nobody, except one gate.</description><category>Collaboration</category><category>Limits and control</category><category>Work processes</category></item>
<item><title>A book for my father: Bijpraten over AI</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-10-bijpraten-over-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-10-bijpraten-over-ai/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>I wrote a book for my father, and for people his age. To explain what AI actually is: not the headline, but what it is. It is called Bijpraten over AI (Catching Up on AI).</description><category>Books</category><category>Trust</category></item>
<item><title>One WhatsApp link, three features</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-09-een-koppeling-drie-functies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-09-een-koppeling-drie-functies/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Ilse, the secretary in my studio, got her own WhatsApp link. And within a day there were three features on top of it.</description><category>Wantzel Studio</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Building apps</category></item>
<item><title>A workaround hides the error</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-08-omweg-verbergt-de-fout/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-08-omweg-verbergt-de-fout/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A workaround hides the error.</description><category>AI agents</category><category>Work processes</category><category>Collaboration</category></item>
<item><title>A rule in a prompt is not a wall</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-07-regel-in-prompt-geen-muur/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-07-regel-in-prompt-geen-muur/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A rule in a prompt is not a wall.</description><category>Limits and control</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Security</category></item>
<item><title>An error message that sounds right does not have to be right</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-07-melding-die-klopt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-07-melding-die-klopt/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>I work with AI agents: programs that carry out a job on their own and use tools while doing it, just like you use a calculator or a search engine. When a tool does something wrong, it gives an error message. The agent…</description><category>AI agents</category><category>Work processes</category><category>Books</category></item>
<item><title>How much trust do you give an AI agent on day one?</title><link>https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-06-vertrouwen-in-treden/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://florisknol.com/blog/2026-10-06-vertrouwen-in-treden/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>How much trust do you give an AI agent on day one?</description><category>Trust</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Limits and control</category></item>
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