What "AI automation" actually means in 2026
The phrase gets used to describe everything from spreadsheet macros to fully autonomous agent flows. We use it specifically: replacing repeated human judgment with a deterministic system that calls an LLM where reasoning is genuinely required, and skips the LLM call where it is not. Most of what we ship is 70% traditional code, 30% AI — because that is the combination that is reliable, cheap to run, and easy to debug at 3am when something goes wrong. We are skeptical of "agentic" architectures for most ops work; tight integrations beat autonomy when the task has a clear definition of done.

