Insane 2026 so far, AGI has arrived

Happy Tuesday Brex Community,

I’ve been in tech for several cycles and this feels like the most rapid time in terms of innovation, key launches and deal activity. While we have several months left and possibly an Anthropic IPO in the fall, 2026 has been a banner year so far, here are just some of the marquee moments:

Have a great week!

Shai Goldman

Meet Bernardo Hernández and Dave Garcia of Pensero 

The Problem

The future of engineering it is hybrid, not simply agentic. Humans, AI-augmented engineers, and autonomous agents will work together—each contributing differently depending on the task, context, and level of complexity. As agents take on more execution, the role of humans becomes even more important: applying judgment, providing context, supervising outcomes, and deciding where automation creates real value. The challenge for leaders is no longer just measuring human productivity or monitoring agent activity. It is understanding how the entire workforce performs together and determining which combination of humans and agents produces the best output at the right quality and cost. Without that intelligence, agentic transformation becomes another technology rollout based on adoption rather than results.

The Solution

Pensero is the intelligence layer behind agentic deployment and your hybrid workforce.
Its AI-native platform measures performance across human work, AI-augmented work, and autonomous agent execution. This gives leaders a unified view of how work gets done, where human judgment creates the most value, which agents perform best, and what workforce composition produces the strongest outcomes. At its core is a proprietary measurement engine that evaluates the magnitude and complexity of completed work, avoiding proxies such as commits, hours, or lines of code, or agent activity. Think of it as story points after the fact: an objective measure of what was actually delivered, comparable across teams, technologies, and human, AI-assisted, or agent-only work. Pensero helps companies decide what should remain human-led, what should be augmented by AI, and what can be delegated to agents to continuously optimize that balance based on delivery, quality, cost, and business impact.

Why It Matters

AI has broken the relationship between effort and output. As agents take on a growing share of execution, companies will need more than visibility into adoption. They will need to know which combination of humans and agents produces the greatest impact.
Pensero has already built the infrastructure to make that possible: understanding the work itself, attributing human and agent contributions, and connecting output with quality, cost, and business value. Across its customers, Pensero has helped engineering organizations increase velocity, shorten cycle times, save hundreds of management hours, and quantify AI’s contribution without sacrificing quality. Now, that same intelligence is helping companies design and optimize the workforce of the future.

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