
Companies Wanted Proof Their Teams Were Using AI. They Forgot to Measure Whether It Helped.
A prompt can clear the busywork. It can’t own the five-year architecture call or face the stakeholder when that call goes wrong.
Executive perspective, organizational design, and the leaders navigating change.

A prompt can clear the busywork. It can’t own the five-year architecture call or face the stakeholder when that call goes wrong.

When every team has access to the same coding agents, the edge comes from who can turn capable models into dependable systems.

Companies now run full-timers, contractors, augmented staff, and AI agents. Three of the four have no owner on the org chart, and regulators are starting to ask.

85% of employers say they hire for skills over degrees. A Harvard study found fewer than 1 in 700 hires at those companies went to a candidate without one—the announcement changed the messaging, not the pipeline.

With spoofed job posts surging, TA veteran Josh Fialky says a distinctively human hiring process is the best defense.