Jody Shapiro

Throughout history, the pattern repeats: new tools emerge and human capability gets amplified. We're entering a new era where interdisciplinary collaboration drives discovery at a rapid pace—an era where AI is in the human loop, not the other way around. This is creating massive opportunities to solve problems that truly matter. And in the coming year, I see this shift impacting everything. From how we combat loneliness and administer care to those that need it most, to how developers design and build systems, and most importantly, how we educate ourselves in a time of rapid change. Read my full tech predictions for 2026 and beyond https://lnkd.in/eHjPnxYB

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GPUs have gotten faster, and models have gotten larger. But storage is still stuck in the past. Modern AI workloads need instant access to huge datasets. Instead, teams waste time on slow retrieval, idle GPUs, and costly pipelines. Archil is changing this. It delivers object-storage scalability at block-storage speeds. The platform allows for seamless, high-performance access to massive datasets. By eliminating cold starts and accelerating throughput 30X, Archil enables teams to fully utilize their infrastructure and move faster on training, analytics, and AI deployment. Archil’s founder Hunter Leath brings rare technical depth and operating experience from building Amazon EFS and optimizing Netflix’s cloud performance. This is a team building the foundational layer that AI workloads desperately need. I’m thrilled to lead Archil’s seed at Felicis with Nancy Wang and support their mission to reinvent cloud storage for the AI era. https://lnkd.in/gWueXhzz

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The old SaaS pricing playbook doesn’t work for AI. Madhavan Ramanujam and I partnered with Emergence Capital and Jake Saper to write a new one—built for where AI is going, not just where it is today. We lay out what state-of-the-art AI pricing looks like now—and what it will look like: ✅ Hybrid pricing (seats + usage) is the current best practice 🎯 Outcome-based models are the future—pricing tied directly to impact 💰 The best AI companies already capture 25–50% of the value they create As autonomy and attribution improve, outcome pricing will go from rare to expected. Founders who move early will win. Full read here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gwp6tDtp

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Most of the AI tooling conversation right now centers on code generation. Cognition, Cursor, Claude Code....these tools are genuinely useful, but engineers are drowning in production issues. At our latest Greylock Partners Change Agents event, Mayank Agarwal and Rushin Shah from Resolve AI walked through a reality most engineering teams live through: with AI coding tools "you can crank out code much faster, but teams aren't really shipping to production that much faster." Some takeaways from our conversation: 1/ The real problem isn't code generation. Mayank saw this at Splunk where engineers spent only 10-20% of their time writing new features. The rest was fighting incidents, navigating tribal knowledge across hundreds of microservices, and operating tools that don't talk to each other. 2/ Production systems are different from code. Your codebase is static. Production is emergent behavior from infrastructure, deployments, traffic patterns, to tribal knowledge buried in Slack. As Mayank stated, the issue is "a coding agent cannot predict these things without the deep understanding of what's actually happening in production." 3/ The scale required is massive. Resolve is now consuming a trillion tokens per quarter—1% of all Azure usage. That's running Stack Overflow from scratch twice per week. "Vibe debugging" is the missing piece, Rushin's term for getting clarity on production systems the way vibe coding accelerates writing code. Check out the full episode in the comments

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This week, Gloo also updated the general Flourishing AI (FAI) Benchmark. Originally launched in July, it showed leading frontier LLMs struggled to support holistic human wellbeing across 7 key dimensions (Character, Finances, Faith, etc.). The new data is promising! It shows that models made steady gains in core reasoning, safety alignment, and pragmatic guidance. But also confirms earlier patterns -- strong in fact-based dimensions, weak in personal viewpoints and values. Essentially, LLMs handle pragmatic guidance well, but struggle with nuanced, value-aligned reasoning. Still work to be done in supporting holistic human flourishing and wellbeing. www.gloo.com/fai 

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