@FUCORY fwiw this is such a no brainer to me- we often have agents repeat similar processes and with smithers you can build in guard rails, re-route failures, carve out deterministic pieces to improve agent performance, etc.
you can also point any agent at smithers itself
We just released Draft Assist in Tabflows.
One click and the assist read's the patient's conversation and medical history, and practice internal information to draft an accurate reply ready for review, tweak and send.
You canโt outwork the whole world. Thereโs always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.
Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone elseโs 1,000 isnโt going to tip the scale in your favor.
Whatโs worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great โwork ethicโ because theyโre always around, always available, always working. Thatโs a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone whoโs overworked.
A great work ethic isnโt about working whenever youโre called upon. Itโs about doing what you say youโre going to do, putting in a fair dayโs work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.
So how do people get ahead if itโs not about outworking everyone else?
People make it because theyโre talented, theyโre lucky, theyโre in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which donโt, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.
So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.
[The Outwork Myth โ It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]
Cursor is not an code editor anymore.
Zed language servers and agents crash all the time.
JetBrains is too slow and agents crash all the time.
Installing a theme from VS Code store can potentially infect your computer with malware.
Who will fix this?
My advice to founders in 2026: spend tokens, not headcount.
Record everything. Make your company queryable. Build self-improving loops.
Before long, AI wonโt just help you operate your company. It will make it self improving.
Don't think AI adoption, think AI transformation.
This is the biggest shift in how startups get built since cloud computing.