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AI on Deterministic Rails
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Synthesised 2026-06-07
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The story of enterprise AI between January 2025 and June 2026 is not about models getting smarter. It is about the rest of the stack catching up to make probabilistic models useful. The defining shift of the past 18 months is the recognition that a stochastic language model embedded inside deterministic software…
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academic
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Academic & arXiv
The most rigorous empirical work on AI productivity in 2025-2026 comes from METR's randomised controlled trials, which found that experienced open-source developers using early-2025 AI tools took 19% longer to complete tasks than without them. By February…
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blogs
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Blogs & Independent Thinkers
The PoC-opalypse is well-documented across independent blogs and Substacks. A May 2026 synthesis of HBR/Hyland survey data found that only 27 percent of enterprises have the connected data infrastructure needed for agentic AI, and only 17 percent had actually…
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financial
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Financial Press
The dominant financial-press theme from early 2025 through June 2026 is a sharpening gap between AI adoption breadth and value depth. McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey found that 88 percent of organisations used AI in at least one function, yet only 39…
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frontier
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Frontier Lab & Model News
Between February 2025 and June 2026, the frontier lab output that most directly shaped the AI-on-deterministic-rails story was not raw benchmark improvement but the systematic construction of agentic harnesses on top of increasingly capable models. Anthropic…
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tech
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Tech Industry & Practitioner
The 2025 DORA report, drawing on nearly 5,000 practitioners, delivered the most empirically grounded verdict to date on AI in software engineering: AI functions as an amplifier of existing conditions rather than a capability creator. Teams with mature DevOps…
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vc
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VC & Analyst Reports
The dominant finding across McKinsey, Gartner, Bain, and a16z research for 2025–2026 is structural: AI adoption is near-universal but durable enterprise value remains concentrated in a small minority. McKinsey's November 2025 State of AI survey (1,993…
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