State of AI Assisted Workflows July 2026

Three months since the&#xA; last update , give or take a day.&#xA;In that post I landed on the idea that the layer around the model is where the&#xA;leverage is, the harness, the context, the review loops, all the boring pieces.&#xA;I still think that&rsquo;s true. What changed this quarter is which problem I point&#xA;all of that at. &#xA; Because what I have actually been optimizing for is not…