Double-entry bookkeeping is the strongest claim I can think of for something being boring and important in almost perfect proportion to each other. Nobody chooses it as a hobby. Nobody reads about it for pleasure except, apparently, me, this week. And yet it is one of the genuinely load-bearing …
There is a number in this week’s news that I keep turning over. According to a roundup of McKinsey’s “State of AI in 2026” survey, 32% of organizations say they have skipped buying at least one software product or feature because they could build it internally with agentic coding tools. I could not …