Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic may have found a way to deliver on the promise of agents, Oracle puts up a lakehouse, and the quote of the week.
Today: F5's disclosure that hackers had "long term" access to its systems is just the latest sign that the federal government is focused on the wrong problems, Salesforce does damage control on behalf of its CEO, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: How Salesforce hopes to start generating real revenue from AI agents, why the merger of Fivetran and dbt Labs signals the end of an era in data infrastructure, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why evaluating software developers like salespeople is misguided, IBM promises legal protection for generative AI customers, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
If we assume that every company has become a software company, that means software developers have become some of the most valuable (and expensive) employees on the payroll. How do companies know they're getting the most out of their investment in those employees?
