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AI-FIRST ISN'T ENOUGH: A FIRESIDE WITH MARTY CAGAN & ENTERPRET

Every leadership team has declared they're now AI-first. Few have truly changed their operating model. Enterpret is hosting Marty Cagan [5], founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), and Jack Divita, Enterpret's Head of Customer Success, for a candid take [6] on what real transformation takes when AI makes building cheap: * Where to start if you've "gone AI-first" and suspect nothing's actually changed. * How customer understanding becomes the true superpower when everyone can build at AI speed. * Why a product-only view of your users is a structural weakness.

FULLY CONNECTED 2026: HANDS-ON LABS ALONGSIDE AI PIONEERS

Join us in San Francisco [5] from September 29 – October 1, 2026, for a three-day, can't-miss event built for AI pioneers. Connect with 2,000+ engineers, platform leaders, and executives who are running AI in production right now, and leave with the technical know-how that moves the needle on your own AI projects. In hands-on labs guided by industry experts and CoreWeave engineers, you'll write the code, run the job, read the results, and leave with configurations you can put to work the moment you're back at your desk. For a limited time, TLDR readers get a free ticket with code PAWBTLDR33.

[WEBINAR] CAN YOU PROVE AI IS WORKING?

AI is in your engineering workflow. While the token spend shows it, the throughput doesn't. The human is very much still in the loop, and that's a context problem. Join live on Aug 19 (FREE) [4]to learn: * The 4 metrics to measure where AI gains leak out before production. * The 8 stages of context maturity, the specific walls capping your metrics, and a free tool to pinpoint where your team is * Why more MCPs and bigger context windows aren't enough, and what it takes to get real value from your agents.

YOU SHOULDN'T BE THE BOTTLENECK FOR YOUR TEAM'S SPENDING

Every purchase that needs your approval waits on you. Every missing receipt is a follow-up you have to send. Mercury Spend fixes that at the source. It's expense management built into Mercury*. Give your team and agents cards with limits you set once, and the policies hold on their own. Receipts scan in from Gmail or arrive by text. Cards with overdue tasks pause until they're resolved. Setup takes minutes. No sales call, no implementation team. Issue your first card and set your first budget in the same session.

TOKENMAXXING IS DEAD. WHAT COMES NEXT?

Over the past year, AI success has often been measured by higher usage. But as agentic workflows scale and AI spend grows, developers are asking a different question: are we measuring the right things? Join IBM's webinar to explore the shift from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing and learn why AI usage alone is an unreliable indicator of success, how model orchestration is becoming more important than model selection as AI becomes infrastructure and which metrics help maximize AI impact—not just token consumption.

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