Writing

On agentic AI and the enterprise.

Writing on agentic AI, software engineering and digital transformation.

Michael Azzopardi
Are we living through another Renaissance?
Essay
July 2026

Are we living through another Renaissance?

On the parallels between the Renaissance and the present moment in artificial intelligence.

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Beyond runtime agents: ontologies as an engineering foundation
Article
July 2026

Beyond runtime agents: ontologies as an engineering foundation

Why ontologies, metamodels and structured knowledge matter well beyond the operation of deployed AI agents.

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The Meaning Is in the Relationships: Why Agentic AI Needs Ontologies
Article
July 2026

The Meaning Is in the Relationships: Why Agentic AI Needs Ontologies

Agentic AI revives a lesson computer science keeps rediscovering — intelligence depends on structure, not only on scale.

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Article
May 2026

Building the Agentic Enterprise

The agentic enterprise uses AI agents as governed digital capabilities embedded into business processes.

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Agentic Engineering: Moving Up the Abstraction Stack
Article
May 2026

Agentic Engineering: Moving Up the Abstraction Stack

Agentic engineering does not replace engineering judgement — it makes engineering judgement the central activity.

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Article
October 2025

When AI Pushes Back: Rethinking Software Engineering with Agentic Systems

AI is no longer only writing code — it reasons, negotiates and shapes the engineering process itself.

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Article
June 2025

The Augmented Workforce: Embracing AI for a Transformed Future

On AI as a defining force reshaping how organisations and their people work.

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Article
March 2021

The Intelligent Home

A long-running personal project to make a home genuinely smart, and what it taught about adoption.

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Paper
IEEE CEWIT

IT Availability and Recoverability

IEEE CEWIT paper on resilience engineering for enterprise IT estates.