I use AI coding agents a lot while building Deshen — Codex, Claude Code, a few others.
They started as tools to help me ship faster, but they’ve slowly changed how I think about what I’m building.
Real estate work is messy.
The context lives across documents, records, spreadsheets, emails, notes, relationships, and judgment that often never gets written down.
A lot of the work is turning messy public and private records into context an agent can actually rely on.
You can put a chatbot on top of that, but you’ve still got the same problem underneath.
For agents to actually be useful here, the product around them has to define:
what context they can use
what they can change
what evidence they surface
what needs human approval
what becomes part of the system of record
An agent summarizing a document isn’t enough.
It should know whether the document is relevant, what it pulled from it, what supports that, and whether a human needs to approve it before anything downstream moves.
That’s what I keep coming back to with Deshen:
the real software layer is where agents, data, evidence, and human judgment meet.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.
It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.
You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
After 25 years on Windows, I switched to Mac a few months ago.
I knew almost immediately there was no going back.
MacBook Pro + Mac mini.
My AI setup now.
Anthropic’s Managed Agents launch exposes a tradeoff a lot of teams have been avoiding.
A lot of teams say they want control. What they actually want is to ship faster.
Managed infrastructure gets very attractive once you admit that.
The harder question is what that dependency looks like later, when pricing, constraints, and runtime ownership start to matter.
40% of new multifamily CMBS delinquencies came from performing matured balloon loans 30 days earlier.
That matters because more pressure is showing up at maturity, not only through slow operational decline.
Source: Trepp, March 2026.
3 tests (build new if ≥2 are true):
* Retention is sliding while AI‑native competitors grow.
* Users now expect outcomes (answers, drafts, actions), not tools.
* Your value prop moved from efficiency to autonomy.