Azeem Azhar

So when they want to call on that particular skill, they have to issue a request to Rmini Arnold.

That gets relayed to me and then I will approve the request.

I haven't yet turned a request down.

I have sometimes said that's a terrible specification and go back and do it again.

But equally, that may change.

It may change because at some point I will have enough trust in the processes I've set up that I'm not going to worry too much about.

the agents going off and kicking off 50, 100, 200, 250 million token workloads.

I already do that in a whole range of other areas.

You know, I do that with checking the code quality on our software repositories overnight.

They can go off and make the changes themselves if they have a certain size.

I certainly do that when I'm doing signals detection for themes that I'm investigating.

There's a lot of discretion to run a crawler or do whatever an agent needs to do.

And that's a really, really important aspect

shift because you know if you're in a big company and you're thinking about an agent strategy an open call strategy well this is all great news for people who sell compute for nvidia and its competitors and all the companies in the supply chain sort of upstream from them but a boss trying to figure out how much compute you're going to use how many tokens you're going to consume well

You're going to need to come up with some sort of governance over the underlying agents as they go off and do their work and maybe send messages to each other about needing to do X or Y to achieve Z objective.

Back at Exponential View, I've been badgering the team to increase their usage of AI, to put more workflows and capabilities into Z.

clawed code and into co-work and open claw and the other systems that we use, just to help them achieve more for themselves more than anything else.

And in thinking through that process internally, I realized that token budgets are really, really important.

And in a small flat company like Exponential View, the decision making is pretty easy.

You know, generally,