Karim Atiyeh
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Oct
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A lot of our focus on our engineering teams right now is on continuing to build these products that drive
value for customers and capture value through software pricing and software revenue.
And in many ways, I mean, we're still trying to figure out the right way to monetize and price for some of the agents that we're working on and building that drive more value.
And I think a lot of companies are really trying to figure out how do you charge for work?
Like how do you price for work?
And do you have a theory?
You want to charge for complexity of the tasks that the agent's been able to solve.
And you're starting to see more and more business models where you're essentially charging for the time that the agent is spending on a task or the number of tokens that they're using.
which is fine.
I worry a little bit about that model sometimes incentivizing the engineering team to not be as efficient as possible with their use of AI.
If you're a company charging for how much time the agent is spending on the task, are you not incentivized to just use lots of CPU cycles and not make it super efficient?
So I worry about that a lot.
That's why I don't really love that model.
So I think we're at a interesting junction right now.
And the best analogy that I can give is the Ford one where like, if you had asked people before cars what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
We're probably at the juncture right now where you ask customers what they want from your products and they'll say like, oh, I want an additional widget here, an additional button there.
They don't realize that the car to their faster horse is possible.
We as a company should be obsessing over what do customers really want?
Well, they want to get from point A to point B. And what is the best way to get them there is like, well, it's to build a car for them.
And she asked questions like who even realizes that that car is
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