It's common knowledge at this point but worth repeating to have some context for future readers, given how fast things have been evolving: over the past year pretty much all software based companies have been in a hurry developing and integrating agentic workflows into all facets of their business, and in general delegating more and more of the work, decision making, analysis to LLMs. Even calling it a hurry doesn't feel strong enough, more of a fanatic push towards making everything agentic, with such a momentum that nothing can stop it. Of course most companies rely on AI vendors; running your own inference infrastructure is pretty expensive, requires specialized knowledge and workers.
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