<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Balt · Blog</title><description>Our take on AI agents at work, sourcing and recruitment automation.</description><link>https://hire-balt.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Your agent will subcontract to other agents</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/agents-qui-appellent-des-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/agents-qui-appellent-des-agents/</guid><description>Yes, and it is already standardised: over 150 organisations behind A2A in one year. An expert agent is called like a tool, provided it keeps nothing about you.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>technique</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Can you automate 100% of a company?</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/automatiser-100-pourcent-entreprise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/automatiser-100-pourcent-entreprise/</guid><description>No, and the limit is not model capability. A company is a person that answers for its acts: automation stops exactly where somebody has to answer.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>vision</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>The AI doom loop in recruiting</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/boucle-infernale-recrutement-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/boucle-infernale-recrutement-ia/</guid><description>Candidates apply with AI, recruiters screen with AI, and response rates collapse on both sides. Getting out of the loop means changing channel, not adding tools.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Intelligence is becoming free. Where does the value go?</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/commoditisation-intelligence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/commoditisation-intelligence/</guid><description>The cost of the same level of answer fell 280-fold in eighteen months. When intelligence costs nothing, what becomes scarce is context and the right to act.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>vision</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Why an AI agent costs 30 times a chatbot</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/cout-contexte-agent-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/cout-contexte-agent-ia/</guid><description>Because an agent rereads its whole context at every step. Resent context is 62 % of the bill, and past fifty steps the multiplier goes beyond thirty.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>technique</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Twelve agents that do not talk to each other</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/douze-agents-qui-ne-se-parlent-pas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/douze-agents-qui-ne-se-parlent-pas/</guid><description>A company runs twelve agents on average and half of them work alone. The right criterion is not how many you have, it is how many contexts you duplicate.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>produit</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>The four eras of AI, and the one now starting</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/eres-de-l-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/eres-de-l-ia/</guid><description>Symbolic, machine learning, deep learning, generative then agentic. What comes next is being decided on memory and world models.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>technique</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Cited without being visited</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/etre-cite-sans-etre-visite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/etre-cite-sans-etre-visite/</guid><description>Between 82 and 88% of citations in an AI answer produce no visit at all. The click stops being the unit of measure, and recommendation replaces it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>vision</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>One candidate profile in four will be fake by 2028</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/faux-candidats-verification/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/faux-candidats-verification/</guid><description>Gartner expects one profile in four to be fake by 2028, and half of applications to remote IT roles. 41 % of companies have already hired one.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>An AI agent’s memory: what it has to forget</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/memoire-agent-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/memoire-agent-ia/</guid><description>A memory that swells unfiltered drops accuracy from 39 to 13 %. What an agent forgets matters as much as what it keeps, and that is settled at design time.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>technique</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>The end of interfaces, not the end of software</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/mort-des-interfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/mort-des-interfaces/</guid><description>At Supabase, 60% of new databases are launched by an agent, and probably 90%. What is dying is not the software: it is the access layer.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>vision</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>What is left to humans when agents do the work</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/place-de-l-humain-ere-agentique/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/place-de-l-humain-ere-agentique/</guid><description>It is not the job that disappears, it is the pyramid. The volume work that trained juniors is going, and nobody has planned a replacement.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>vision</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>The AI match score is the wrong instrument</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/score-ia-candidat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/score-ia-candidat/</guid><description>A score of 87 % cannot be argued with, only applied. 75 % of companies let an AI reject without review, and 26 % of candidates call that fair.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>produit</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Two thirds of your team use a banned AI</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/shadow-ia-entreprise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/shadow-ia-entreprise/</guid><description>66 % of office professionals used an AI they believed was banned, and over a third entered client data into it. Banning harder only moves the usage.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gouvernance</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Skills or subagents: what actually works</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/skills-contre-sous-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/skills-contre-sous-agents/</guid><description>A single agent with well-written skills matches multi-agent architectures. But an auto-generated skill adds nothing, and a bad one actively degrades performance.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>technique</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>How to test an AI agent before you sign</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/tester-agent-ia-avant-signer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/tester-agent-ia-avant-signer/</guid><description>With thirty cases from your own history, whose right answer you already know, replayed three times each. A demo proves none of that.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>delegation</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>The work that looks finished and is not</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/workslop-travail-genere/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/workslop-travail-genere/</guid><description>40 % of workers get it from a colleague, and each instance costs almost two hours to whoever picks it up. The cost does not vanish, it changes person.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>delegation</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Can a CV manipulate an AI agent?</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/agent-ia-injection-prompt-cv/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/agent-ia-injection-prompt-cv/</guid><description>Yes. Text hidden in a CV gives an order to the agent reading it. It is the least covered flaw in enterprise agents, and no filter fixes it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gouvernance</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>AI agent or automation: which one for which task</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/agent-ia-ou-automatisation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/agent-ia-ou-automatisation/</guid><description>An automation follows rules, an agent makes decisions. The rule for choosing: if you can write the script, automate. If you can only describe the outcome, delegate.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>produit</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>AI Act deferred to 2027: what still applies</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/ai-act-reporte-2027/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/ai-act-reporte-2027/</guid><description>The high-risk rules move to 2 December 2027. But telling a candidate they are talking to an AI has been required since 2 August 2026, and GDPR never moved at all.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gouvernance</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Does a recruitment AI agent require a DPIA?</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/aipd-agent-ia-recrutement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/aipd-agent-ia-recrutement/</guid><description>Almost always yes. France’s CNIL names algorithmic candidate screening explicitly, and a missing DPIA is a priority enforcement theme for 2026.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gouvernance</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Automating LinkedIn in 2026: what it really costs</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/automatiser-linkedin-risque/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/automatiser-linkedin-risque/</guid><description>40% of accounts using non-compliant tools were restricted in Q1 2026. And what you are risking is not a company account.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>What an AI agent should not be able to do</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/ce-qu-un-agent-ne-doit-pas-pouvoir-faire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/ce-qu-un-agent-ne-doit-pas-pouvoir-faire/</guid><description>A good agent refuses. Deciding for you, acting outside its scope, silently retrying: five things it should be incapable of, by design.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>produit</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Training your teams on AI is now an obligation</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/charte-ia-formation-equipes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/charte-ia-formation-equipes/</guid><description>Article 4 of the AI Act has required a sufficient level of AI literacy since February 2025. It is an obligation of result, with no format imposed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>delegation</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>What an AI agent costs, and why not per seat</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/combien-coute-un-agent-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/combien-coute-un-agent-ia/</guid><description>Between €200 and €3,000 a month recurring. But the real question is the billing unit: per-seat pricing is structurally broken for an agent.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>produit</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Must you consult the works council before deploying AI?</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/consultation-cse-avant-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/consultation-cse-avant-ia/</guid><description>In France, yes. A court suspended two HR tools in January 2026, an appeal court two more in May, with daily penalties, and no need to prove urgency.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gouvernance</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Delegating to an AI agent: where to start</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/deleguer-agent-ia-premier-mois/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/deleguer-agent-ia-premier-mois/</guid><description>Start with work you can check in ten seconds: follow-ups, interview notes, record updates. Here is the order that works, week by week.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>delegation</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Before evaluating an AI agent, look at your data</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/donnees-avant-agent-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/donnees-avant-agent-ia/</guid><description>A candidate database loses about 30% of its accuracy a year. An agent reasons soundly over that wrong data, confidently, which costs more than no agent.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Should you require your AI agent to speak MCP?</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/faut-il-exiger-mcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/faut-il-exiger-mcp/</guid><description>MCP is genuinely good news, but it is not a buying criterion. It is an exit criterion: what matters is the day you change tools.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>produit</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Candidate ghosting is a capacity problem</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/ghosting-candidats-ia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/ghosting-candidats-ia/</guid><description>53% of candidates were ghosted in 2026, up from 38% in 2024. It is not rudeness: it is a saturated queue, and AI is the cause before it is the cure.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Why 40% of AI agent projects will be abandoned</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/pourquoi-projets-agents-ia-echouent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/pourquoi-projets-agents-ia-echouent/</guid><description>Gartner expects over 40% to be abandoned before the end of 2027, for three reasons: no measurable ROI, no governance, no integration. All three are preventable.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Who approves what when an AI writes to your candidates</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/qui-valide-quoi-agent-ia-candidats/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/qui-valide-quoi-agent-ia-candidats/</guid><description>No, approving everything is the same as delegating nothing. The rule that holds: approval whenever a message leaves the company or closes a door.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gouvernance</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item><item><title>Bench time is not a sourcing problem</title><link>https://hire-balt.com/blog/reduire-intercontrat-esn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hire-balt.com/blog/reduire-intercontrat-esn/</guid><description>An 11.4% average bench rate, 41 days, €5,480 a month per consultant. The cost is already committed once you learn about the roll-off: the lever is the date.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>metier</category><author>Grégory Hissiger</author></item></channel></rss>