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Why AI Spells the DEATH of Workplace "Coasting": Jacob Morgan returns

Jacob Morgan returns to The DEX Show for another provocative conversation on the future of work, AI, and why 2026 is the year of accountability. Jacob argues that AI is exposing “performative work,” forcing organizations to rethink culture, leadership, and what real value creation looks like. We explore why company culture became too vague, why human judgment matters more than ever, and how leaders can avoid over-relying on AI at the expense of discernment, responsibility, and individuality. It’s a wide-ranging discussion on work, ambition, and the high-stakes reset now unfolding inside modern organizations.

Ep 37: Robbing banks is now a work from home job

In this episode of Masters of Data, we explore how banks and fintech companies have traded friendly neighborhood tellers for data-driven, always-on digital fortresses. We unpack everything from sophisticated phishing schemes and viral TikTok check fraud trends to the AI-powered tools that now handle the fraud detection Shirley the bank teller used to manage through sheer familiarity. We make the case that financial institutions today face more pressure than ever to be trustworthy, secure, and seamless all at once, whether their customers are logging into a sleek app or calling a landline to pay two bills a month.

Top 5 Continuous Monitoring Tools and Why Runtime Context Is the Layer They Are Missing

Continuous monitoring tools track system health, performance, and behavior in real time across production environments. For a deeper understanding of how this fits into modern DevOps practices, see this guide on continuous monitoring and its impact on DevOps. They collect logs, metrics, and distributed traces across the infrastructure and application layers, giving engineering teams visibility into how their systems are running, where anomalies occur, and when something needs immediate attention.

LLM Cost Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Teams running LLM applications in production face a cost problem that traditional APM tools were never designed to solve. CPU and memory costs are relatively predictable — a web service processing 1,000 requests per second costs roughly the same week over week. LLM API costs are not. A single user session can cost $0.01 or $5 depending on prompt length, model choice, conversation history, and how many retries happen inside your chain.

Practical AI-Enabled Observability for Agents and LLMs

You’re told to “go build agents” without clear guidance on what that actually means, how to do it well, or how to know if it is working. You are not a data scientist. You are a software engineer. In this talk, a Datadog AI product leader Shri Subramanian breaks down what changes when you move from building applications to building AI agents, and why familiar approaches like traditional testing and linear delivery fall short. We will explore how agent development shifts the focus from code alone to data, prompts, and evaluation, and why functional reliability matters just as much as operational reliability.

The Cost of Operating Without Truth

Enterprises have reached a point where the pace of modernization no longer depends on the number of tools they deploy or the volume of telemetry they collect. Progress depends on whether teams can form a consistent and verifiable understanding of what is happening inside the environment. Many organizations do not realize that the single greatest barrier to modernization is the absence of operational truth.

The Next Phase of Agentic AI

The Enterprise AI Survey conducted by Digitate in collaboration with Sapio Research states that the journey of enterprise automation and AI adoption has evolved significantly. The initial waves focused primarily on improving accuracy, efficiency, and reducing costs. Now, the next phase, Agentic AI, is transforming this shift from mere automation to dynamic collaboration.