A 4-minute read for workers weighing a buyout and the HR leads offering one: what the weeks of pay cover, what they leave to you, and five checks before you sign.

A 3-minute read for CFOs: price the human queue before approving agent replacement, using Av’s illustrative payback model.

A 4-minute read for CFOs and boards: our payback math on Barclays' cut, why HubSpot's has no disclosed return, and five questions to test AI layoff savings.

A 4-minute read for workers and HR leads: how to tell whether AI really did the work behind a layoff, and five checks to ask for before you sign.

A 4-minute read for CFOs: the monthly volume at which a self-hosted specialist model beats a pay-per-call API, modelled from list prices on Coinbase's fraud case.

A 4-minute read for CFOs: which Klarna AI claims held up in its July 2025 SEC response, about $39M of 2024 savings, and how to test any AI payoff case.

A 4-minute read for workers and HR leads: NBER w33777 (March 2026) finds chatbots saved Danish workers time but moved pay under about 2% in two years. Track where hours go.

A 4-minute read for CFOs: price every AI workflow per successful outcome, and see why our small modelled test cut inference cost per correct ticket 60%.

A 4-minute read for job seekers and HR leads: what the current court cases say about automated rejections, and three checks that put a person back at the exit.

In architecture review conversations, the Chinchilla paper (Hoffmann et al., 2022, arXiv:2203.15556) is cited with high frequency and understood with low precision; specifically, t…

Self-consistency (Wang et al., 2022) is cited in 8,000 papers and used in almost zero production systems I know. I implemented it from scratch on two real tasks. On one it was a 9-…

Academic research usually takes years to reach production—but three recent papers have immediate architectural implications for enterprise systems. This digest covers mixture-of-ex…

A 4-minute read for founders: give your first agent clear boundaries, a named checker and a stop rule before handing it real work.

A 3-minute read for engineering leaders: how to isolate agent memory and keep review capacity before you cut the team that catches failures.

A 3-minute read for developers: reproduce contention with 10 scripted workers and learn what the test cannot tell you about AI staffing.

A 4-minute read for founders: before you post that AI replaced a role, map who catches the agent's mistakes now, using Klarna's own walk-back as the warning.

A 4-minute read for builders who hear "AI now does the work": my CPU test on 3,080 public bank tickets, and how many still go to a person at each accuracy level.

A 4-minute read for CTOs and platform leads: six checks on the human exception queue to run before any headcount cut is credited to AI.

A 4-minute read for founders: Coinbase says its 9B fraud model cost under $100 to train, so the real question is whether you own the confirmed answers it learned from.

A 4-minute read for builders: a free CPU baseline scored 91.0% on 3,080 public bank tickets in my test, plus the cost formula and labelling bill to check.

A 4-minute read for platform leads: the router, eval gate, drift monitor and rollback a fine-tuned small model needs before its benchmark win becomes production.

A 4-minute read for founders: in a peer-reviewed study of 5,172 support agents, AI lifted the least experienced most, so here is a 90-day rollout plan built for that.

A 4-minute read for engineering leaders: a scored delivery check, built on DORA's 2025 industry survey report of 4,867 respondents, that shows whether AI gains will hold.

A 4-minute read for builders: a harness that times AI vs no-AI work on a greenfield task and a mature-repo fix, plus my 2-run demo that settles nothing yet.