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AI Automates the Verifiable

Coding agents are designed to be coupled with an oracle. AI agents that automate knowledge work in business processes often cannot replicate this pattern. That is the fundamental gap that explains why coding is the flagship agent use-case, while agents for knowledge work are often still in experimentation.

May 16, 2026
Agentic AIEnterpriseBusiness Process

How To Think About Agent Evals

Your eval harness is an instrument, and the instrument has more moving parts than the thing it's measuring. A single judge can't measure a modern agent. You need a portfolio.

May 3, 2026
Agentic AIEvalsEngineering

The Best Demo Skill Isn't Presenting -- It's Building

Good SEs know how to present. Great SEs know their product because they've built with it. The unscripted moments are where trust is won.

April 11, 2026
Sales EngineeringDemosCareer
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