Tootfinder

Headway management is a net good, but it's no fun being on the bus that's being slowed down to maintain headway. You've got places to be and that bus is draaaagging, missing every light on purpose.
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Development of management systems using artificial intelligence systems and machine learning methods for boards of directors (preprint, unofficial translation)
Anna Romanova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03769

Development of management systems using artificial intelligence systems and machine learning methods for boards of directors (preprint, unofficial translation)
The study addresses the paradigm shift in corporate management, where AI is moving from a decision support tool to an autonomous decision-maker, with some AI systems already appointed to leadership roles in companies. A central problem identified is that the development of AI technologies is far outpacing the creation of adequate legal and ethical guidelines. The research proposes a "reference model" for the development and implementation of autonomous AI systems in corporate management. This…

ContestTrade: A Multi-Agent Trading System Based on Internal Contest Mechanism
Li Zhao, Rui Sun, Zuoyou Jiang, Bo Yang, Yuxiao Bai, Mengting Chen, Xinyang Wang, Jing Li, Zuo Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00554

ContestTrade: A Multi-Agent Trading System Based on Internal Contest Mechanism
In financial trading, large language model (LLM)-based agents demonstrate significant potential. However, the high sensitivity to market noise undermines the performance of LLM-based trading systems. To address this limitation, we propose a novel multi-agent system featuring an internal competitive mechanism inspired by modern corporate management structures. The system consists of two specialized teams: (1) Data Team - responsible for processing and condensing massive market data into diversif…

This paragraph from Peopleware (in Chapter 21, under subheading "Management by Hysterical Optimism") is one I think about a lot.