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Santander open-sourced its AI control layer in June 2026 — the harness, the guardrails and the governance — but the early public activity leaves adoption unproven.
METR ran the experiment. AI made experienced developers 19% slower — and they reported feeling 20% faster. The week-6 dip is the bottom of a documented J-curve. Most pilots get cut here. The right ones don't.
Most AI demos I'm shown answer the wrong question. They prove the model works; they never prove anyone needed it. Here's the builder-and-investor lens I use to tell the two apart before a cheque is written.
I've built the kind of agent framework AgentKit competes with. So when OpenAI shipped it two years "late," I knew exactly which problem they were actually solving — and which one they weren't.
