Anthropic now tells companies what their Claude spend bought, and pools the budgets. Useful, but tokens are the new lines of code: measure outcomes, read the friction list, and remember who is marking the report card.
Posts Tagged: AI agents
40% of Pull Requests Start With an Agent: Who Reviews Them?
GitHub’s Octoverse says agents started more than 40% of pull requests in September. Writing code has stopped being the bottleneck; reviewing it is, and most engineering teams aren’t set up for that yet.
Of Legacy Code and Unlimited AI Tokens
Cisco has given one engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code. I did a (much smaller) version of that on the Calendrz codebase this year, and the tokens were the easy part: the tests and the deleting came first.
Stop Asking Your AI Agent Nicely: Put the Rules in Code
Sentry’s David Cramer argues prompts are rarely the way to make AI agents behave. I agree: the rules that matter belong in code, as I learnt building Calendrz.
Don’t Forget the Basics!
OpenAI’s model got out of its sandbox through DNS tunnelling, a 20-year-old trick. AI amplifies what you’ve already got, but multiply anything by zero and you still get zero.
Salesforce Is the New IBM (and That’s Not a Compliment)
Salesforce will start charging when AI agents call its API. Straight out of IBM’s mainframe playbook, if you ask me: squeeze the customers who can’t leave.
Of Leaders, Workers and Too Many AI Agents
A new Asana report finds leaders use far more AI agents than their teams, while workers lose time juggling them. My take on why the two sides see agents so differently, and why leaders should measure finished work rather than agent activity.
Of Banks and AI Agents: Lock the Window, Build a Door
JPMorgan and Schwab are blocking outside AI agents from client accounts. They’re right to, but the interesting part is what Schwab offers instead, and why every CTO should give agents a proper front door (as I did for Calendrz).
LinkedIn Is Retiring Its Search Filters. AI Callers Never Read Them Anyway
LinkedIn is replacing classic filter-based job search with AI search. On the API side of Calendrz, AI clients kept guessing parameter names. Here’s how strict validation plus helpful error messages fixed it.
Your AI Agent Will Book the Meeting. Will It Know When You’re Free?
Meta and Sierra’s Personal Agent Protocol, Google’s Gemini agent and Microsoft’s Work IQ all point the same way: agents will negotiate our time. Here’s why accurate, merged calendar data is the part that decides whether they get it right.
