Enterprise AI crossed a threshold this quarter. Agents are signing contracts, shipping code to production, and closing tickets without a human in the loop. We stress-tested eight of them so you don't have to.

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Verdict scorecard

ReliabilityB+

TransparencyA−

Cost to runC

Safety postureA

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REVIEW · 9 MIN

Six coding agents, one legacy monolith, zero mercy

We pointed them at 40k lines of undocumented Java. Only two survived.

BRIEFING · 6 MIN

The new pricing games in agent platforms

Per-token is out. Per-outcome billing is quietly reshaping budgets.

FIELD NOTE · 4 MIN

What breaks when an agent runs unattended for 30 days

Drift, silent failures, and the logging you wish you'd set up.

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