One enterprise harness maker says the competing enterprises harness makers either suck or are non-existent.
When you go to San Francisco and talk to them, their basic vibe is ‘we don’t have to solve your problem today because tomorrow you’re going to go away and all your problems are going to be solved,'" Karp charged. “It’s largely religious.” … “the product doesn’t actually work and it’s very expensive.” To that end, he added, most of the things that Anthropic brags about in public, for example, are successful because they’re “running on Palantir,” Karp charged
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That means each employee’s AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package.
Last year, there were a few anecdotes about high growth tech companies spending $100,000/year per head on tokens. That seems like it’s coming to end.a
🔗 Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
Enterprise AI Slop
People are using AI to generate too much work because they think they know what they’re doing:
A growing body of work calls this output-competence decoupling. In any previous era, the quality of a piece of work was a more or less reliable signal of the competence of the person who produced it. A novice essay read like a novice essay; novice code crashed in novice ways. AI has severed that relationship.
The users have plenty of feature ideas
AI allows people who aren’t software engineers to build meaningful software. Those of us who are software engineers at companies should stop building features and focus instead on building systems that allow people on the sales team, the factory shop floor, etc. etc. etc. to ship safely.
🔗 notes from o11ycon 2026