Brad Pierce

When Reasoning Leaves the Transcript

In Hybrid Reasoning Agents, Jiaru Zou, Yunzhe Qi, Sirui Chen, Federico Bianchi, Shang Zhu, Pan Lu, Jingrui He, and James Zou describe agents that combine text-based interaction with internal computation in continuous representations. This separation raises an engineering question...

Staying Capable in a World That Pushes Back

Consequential agentic systems do work whose effects extend beyond the responses they generate. Their competence depends on the operating arrangement through which models, tools, memory, controls and people act in a changing environment. This paper develops an engineering framewor...

Intelligence by Appointment

Intelligent systems increasingly have more decision-relevant capabilities and resources than they can use everywhere at once. This paper develops intelligence by appointment as a research program for making the right capability present at the right place and moment without surren...

Agents Act. Systems Remember. Rules Authorize. People Govern.

As AI agents become capable of carrying out consequential work, the central governance problem is not simply what agents can do, but how their actions become trusted facts, how those facts change what is allowed, and where human judgment remains necessary. This paper proposes a f...