And what we built to fix it. I ran a test I want more people in finance to run for themselves. I took a standard question, a 5-year levered IRR on a $7M commercial real estate deal, and asked the best AI model on the market to solve it. Then I asked it again. Same…
I recently read Every’s newsletter “Token Tightening,” which reports on the shift away from “tokenmaxxing” toward real discernment about where tokens get consumed. Every’s head of tech consulting, Mike Taylor, anticipates that companies will start distributing token budgets (Uber blew through its 2026 token budget in four months), along with access to the highest cost…
A framework for deciding what work is safe to hand to an AI agent has been a topic of recent conversation. On the Section blog, Michael Domanic, their Head of AI, published a piece walking AI leaders through how to decide what is safe to automate. He plots every candidate workflow on two axes: blast…
Why the breakthrough in AI mathematical reasoning creates an urgent need for deterministic execution infrastructure The tipping point has arrived. As Quanta Magazine reports in their recent piece “The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived,” AI systems solved five out of six International Mathematical Olympiad problems in summer 2025, and over half of research-level questions…
Last time I wrote about why most people outside tech hate AI, and what builders should do about it. This is the personal version of that argument. I’ve been writing calculator software for nearly 30 years. What drove me to write PowerOne in the first place was a deep desire to stop adapting to the…
Michael Domanic, Section’s Head of AI, published a short piece this week called “The chasm is already visible.” It’s worth reading. He lays out what’s happening inside Section: 154 pull requests in three weeks from a five-person engineering team. Pre-AI, per Domanic, that team would have shipped 54. Nearly 3x throughput improvement. He notes that…
Nilay Patel wrote a widely read piece in The Verge this week about the disconnect between the tech community and everyone else, especially around AI. Most people outside tech hate AI, he points out, and their opinion is getting worse with time. I see this at home. My daughters, both Gen Z, are massively against…
The fear: LLMs will do everything. There won’t be any need for anyone to ever write a new product again! The world will be ruled by bespoke software products written by every Tom, Dick and Harry with a laptop! R.I.P. Good Times! Wow. Just wow. Relax folks. Deep breath. Step back from the ledge. Yes,…
Why deterministic math is a missing piece of the agent governance stack, and what it means for enterprises granting agents write access. Writing in CIO magazine in February, Hari Om Garg described the first time he watched an autonomous AI agent execute a multi-step workflow inside an enterprise. He did not feel excited. He felt,…