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: productivity
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.
AI agents are joining your meetings. Do they know when you’re actually free?
Agents are moving into meetings and calendars. Here’s what six months of running an MCP server and a scheduling agent taught me about letting AI book your time.
The return-to-office fight is really a calendar problem
Three-day mandates, four-day weeks, deferred rollouts: whichever policy wins, it plays out in a calendar that rarely tells the truth about when you’re free.
The AI-Native Product: What Happens When You Design for AI Consumers First
There’s a category of product emerging that I think deserves its own label: the AI-native product. Not “AI-enhanced” — a product that bolts on a chatbot or sprinkles some ML recommendations on top. Not “AI-powered” — a product whose core engine is a model. I mean something different: a product that was designed from the […]
How AI Wrote Seven Blog Posts for My Product in Forty Minutes
Last week I sat down to write a content marketing plan for Calendrz. Seven blog posts, each targeting a different audience segment, each with a matching LinkedIn teaser. The kind of work that would normally take me a solid two or three days of writing, editing, second-guessing, and procrastinating. It took about forty minutes. And […]
