<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Julien Talbot — Writing</title><description>Essays on real work, AI agents, supervision, and the conditions for trust in work systems.</description><link>https://julientalbot.com</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>You do not remove a task. You move the real work.</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ia-deplace-le-travail-reel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ia-deplace-le-travail-reel</guid><description>Why an AI project does not merely remove tasks: it moves workload, exceptions, judgment, responsibility, and sometimes the meaning of work.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Agents Are Operators. They Need Ergonomics.</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ai-agents-are-operators</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ai-agents-are-operators</guid><description>Benchmarks test models. Real work tests situated operators: model, harness, tools, permissions, evidence, recovery, and human belief.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Making Grok Act: Notes From a Production System-Prompt Fix</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/making-grok-act</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/making-grok-act</guid><description>An XML system block that forbids intent narration: one repro (10 min → 33.9 s), corpus measures, an honest A/B, and what the patch cannot fix.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Enterprise Agent Problem Is Belief</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/enterprise-agent-problem-is-belief</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/enterprise-agent-problem-is-belief</guid><description>An agent is not enterprise-ready because it can act. It is enterprise-ready when the belief it creates about its action is calibrated to evidence.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI agents in SMEs: start from real work</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/agents-ia-pme-reunion-travail-reel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/agents-ia-pme-reunion-travail-reel</guid><description>A useful AI agent does not start with a technical demo. It starts with a situated task, limited rights, verifiable evidence, and a possible human recovery path.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An AI talk should talk about real work</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/conference-ia-travail-reel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/conference-ia-travail-reel</guid><description>Why a useful AI talk should start from what AI changes in work, decisions, responsibility, evidence and human recovery, not from tools alone.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DUERP, MSDs, psychosocial risks: tie risk to real work</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/duerp-tms-rps-qvct-travail-reel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/duerp-tms-rps-qvct-travail-reel</guid><description>A DUERP becomes useful in Réunion when it connects risks to observable situations, production constraints, and the real room people have to maneuver.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Architects: putting ergonomics into a tender in Réunion</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ergonomie-architecte-appel-offres-reunion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ergonomie-architecte-appel-offres-reunion</guid><description>What an architect, owner-assistance team, or project manager can ask from an ergonomist to strengthen a proposal, a program, or a reconstruction.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Raw Traces Are Not Evals</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/raw-traces-are-not-evals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/raw-traces-are-not-evals</guid><description>The missing layer between real agent failures and measurable model progress: reducing messy traces into replayable eval seeds without laundering the signal.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tool Use Is Not Task Completion</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/tool-use-is-not-task-completion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/tool-use-is-not-task-completion</guid><description>Why agent reliability depends on preserving the boundary between intention, action, observable state, and truthful final claims.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Most Dangerous Agent Failure Is Not Hallucination</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/claim-action-evidence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/claim-action-evidence</guid><description>Why the critical risk is not only hallucination, but an agent claiming work is done without observable evidence.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Agents Are Not Just Tools. They Are Work Systems</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/agents-are-work-systems</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/agents-are-work-systems</guid><description>Why task completion is not enough: an agent redistributes verification, responsibility, coordination, and recovery work.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Is Not Integrated Into Work. It Reconfigures It.</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ai-reconfigures-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ai-reconfigures-work</guid><description>Why AI must be analyzed from real activity: constraints, trade-offs, invisible cooperation, room to act, and responsibility.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Benchmark Lie: Why Grok 4.20 Excels in Benchmarks but Fails in Production</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/benchmark-lie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/benchmark-lie</guid><description>A cognitive ergonomist dogfoods Grok 4.20 across 12+ production agents. What 40 years of human factors research says about what benchmarks miss in agent loops.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ergonomics and AI: what the tool displaces in practice</title><link>https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ergonomie-ia-ouverture</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://julientalbot.com/en/writing/ergonomie-ia-ouverture</guid><description>Opening note. What AI concretely displaces in the ergonomist&apos;s practice and in organizational work — and the analysis space it opens.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>