Warehouses, engineering teams, clinics, property management, marketing ops — five places where software now acts rather than answers. Where the human stays in the loop, what that does to jobs, and how to tell real autonomy from a demo.
Quality control, warehouse replanning, surgical assistance, site safety — the deployments actually running in 2026, roughly what they cost, how human oversight is being redesigned rather than removed, and a hype filter for everything else.
My Friend Asked If He Should Pay More for GPT-5. Here’s What I Told Him. A few weeks ago, a product manager friend sent me a voice note while I was making coffee. “AJ, OpenAI just dropped GPT-5 and I
