TL;DR: Salesforce Koa, Harvey Tenet, and Shopify’s specialist AI models show how software companies are teaching models to perform domain-specific work. In my System of Execution framework, the strategic question is who controls the workflows, outcome evidence, and permissions needed to turn that experience into learning - and whether the resulting advantage can endure.
Weights Are the New Code
As open bases get good enough, the fight moves from “who has the smartest model” to “who can turn real work, with permission, into the next version of the system”.
