Every morning, we hire a brilliant strategist who has never heard of us. They read what we left out for them, do remarkable work, and are gone by evening. Ried Watkins, S.I.R.’s Director of Artificial Intelligence, takes a honest look inside how our team runs AI agents: what they're spooky good at, what a knowledge file can never hold, and why someone with real judgment still decides what goes in it.

S.I.R. examines what the history of energy can teach us about artificial intelligence. As AI shifts from software to something closer to a utility, this piece traces the parallel to electrification, the power and capacity constraints shaping the buildout today, and the problems communities have never had the people to attempt, until now.