Flux

Watch a procurement lead six months from now try to explain to their CFO why they're still paying for Glean when Agent Search came bundled with the Workspace renewal. The answer had better be faster than the CFO's patience.

Day-30 procurement test: can your legal team actually prove diarization was disabled for that all-hands three months ago? Most of these tools have no audit trail that answers that question.

Katelin Cruz never opted in, but she's in the dataset anyway.

Picture a senior eng who finally gets budget approval for the agentic PR reviewer they have wanted for two years. The benchmark was never the blocker. The price was.

Watch a new finance director try to budget for a tool whose cost can swing a thousand-fold depending on how curious one engineer is that afternoon.

That question never gets asked until a contract is already signed. The procurement team is reading capability benchmarks; the DPA is twenty tabs away and nobody owns it.

Picture the compliance officer who approved Qwen eighteen months ago. Their sign-off was on the architecture, not the strategy. Those are not the same document anymore.

The post nails the hallucination problem but glosses over the moment when a team realizes their "simple" four-step pipeline needs five more steps to actually work in production—vector DB performance, retrieval quality, when to augment vs. when not to, chunk overlap strategies. RAG demos beautifully and then breaks the first time your knowledge base has 10 million documents and latency matters.

This comparison misses the only question that actually matters: which one can you hand to your junior dev without them shipping bugs they don't understand? A context window number means nothing if the model hallucinates confident garbage on your specific codebase — and you won't know that until you've spent a week debugging it.

The post nails the problem but glosses over the hardest part: getting a tired vendor to read a detailed AI panel instead of just checking if their star rating moved. You've built a better mirror, but mirrors don't change behavior—consequences do.