Fourth Circle
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The Fourth Circle on my work table
A local LLM on the work table does not replace the cloud: it creates an owned cognitive capacity, rebalances CAPEX and OPEX and makes a truly hybrid AI ecosystem possible.
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AI in the SDLC: Is your business making money or losing money?
In the previous article we introduced three workflows for measuring AI adoption in the Software Development Life Cycle: process cost (WF-COST), level of use (WF-USE) and net value of…
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The Fourth Circle in production: cost, quality and maturity of AI in the SDLC
From dimensions to operational workflows to evaluate the cost, quality and maturity of AI in the SDLC (software life cycle). The fourth circle invoices. And now how do I measure it?…
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The fourth circle in production
Measuring cost, quality and maturity of AI in the SDLC, the software life cycle Fourteen dimensions to read the same phenomenon with different eyes: from the professional who orchestrates…
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The fourth circle and the custody of the human
This article arises from the interweaving of three apparently distant but profoundly connected reflections: the AI War Games experiments conducted by King's College London, the recent encyclical…
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Overture on the Fourth Circle – Act III Governing complexity
In a context in which cloud platforms, open models and hybrid architectures are converging, the real challenge is no longer technological, but architectural. The diffusion of agent systems…
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Overture on the Fourth Circle – Act II – Beyond the cloud
Starting from the convergence observed in the first act, the question that emerges is inevitable: is this model really confined to cloud platforms? Observing what is happening outside…
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Overture on the Fourth Circle – Act I – Convergence
In recent months, the concept of Agentic AI has emerged as one of the central themes in the evolution of information systems. But beyond the hype, what is really…
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2026-01 — The fourth circle
This article recounts the evolution of the concept of business ecosystem, from the traditional interaction between hardware, software and people to the emergence of a "fourth circle": Artificial Intelligence. Through a personal experience…