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Top Tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at which tasks you can delegate to AI. We've all struggled to delegate tasks. Whether you're a junior struggling to prioritize your tasks on a daily basis or a manager unsure of assigning responsibilities, you know how messy task delegation can get. Some people just improvise while others have a method to this madness.

Only 14% of CFOs can prove AI ROI. OpenAI’s gross margin fell from 40% to 33% in 2025, well below its 46% target. Even the AI providers cannot reliably predict what AI will cost. Companies are scaling AI faster than they can measure it: more tokens, more agents, more model calls, more spend moving through systems finance cannot yet see. Every board is asking the same question: What is this AI investment returning? Most companies cannot answer it. The ones that can will compound their advantage.

A more reliable agent that learns your schema, queries your data, and investigates alerts - that’s what’s possible with this release of our MCP server v1.3.0.

AI agents tend to function as black boxes, and it can be difficult to trace and understand agent workflows end-to-end in order to characterize performance. Particularly, you need visibility into the following: By tracing full agent runs with LLM Observability, Datadog AI Agent Monitoring enables you to visualize workflows with flame graphs and quickly spot sources of failures and latency.