Mike Temkin (@miketemkin)

From the MIT Sloan School of Management: “Agentic AI coding tools are not just for developers. Versatile capabilities make tools like Claude Code widely relevant for leaders and knowledge workers, too, according to MIT Sloan professor of the practice Rama Ramakrishnan. Writing in MIT Sloan Management Review, Ramakrishnan explains that, unlike standard AI chatbots, agentic tools can work directly with files on your computer — reading, editing, and creating them. That seemingly modest difference unlocks three meaningful capabilities: memory that persists across sessions, automation that lets you re-execute refined workflows on demand, and parallel execution that can run the same task for multiple inputs simultaneously. Here’s how you might use these agentic tools to prepare for a meeting: 1) Prompt the tool to research a client and draft a briefing, pulling information from web pages, social media, and your own notes. 2) Instruct the tool to refine the output — shorten it, add sections, shift the focus — which it will do directly in the file. 3) Save the refined instructions as a text file for future use.  4) From there, you can rerun the process for any new client in seconds or share the files with a colleague.  Ramakrishnan cautions that organizations with strict data confidentiality requirements should review data-handling policies before adopting these tools.”  From a report posted March 3, 2026, in the Thinking Forward Newsletter from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sloan School of Management. For more Thoughts And Observations about Agentic AI go to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/more-ai-potential-third-wave-michael-temkin-zsugc/