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Elder Moraes 
Recently, I sat in on a talk at StartSe AI Festival 2026 that stayed with me for days. On stage was Isabella Piratininga, iFood’s Director of Technology and Innovation, and the subject was building agentic products at scale, told through the case of Ailo, iFood’s conversational assistant. Let me be upfront from the start: this … Read more
As mentioned in my previous post, I’m in São Paulo this week for the StartSe AI Festival 2026 (May 13 and 14, at Pro Magno Centro de Eventos). For those joining now: this is the largest AI gathering in Brazil right now, around 4,000 people in the room, with a lineup that pulled global names … Read more
I’m in São Paulo this week for the StartSe AI Festival 2026 (May 13 and 14, at Pro Magno Centro de Eventos). Context for those reading from outside Brazil: this is the largest AI gathering in the country right now. Around 4,000 people in the room, and a lineup that brought Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, … Read more
There’s a term making the rounds that you should know: tokenmaxxing. It describes engineers competing to burn AI tokens under employer-imposed usage metrics. The concept exposes something structural about how companies measure AI adoption. Here’s how it works: some companies offer generous token budgets as a recruiting perk. Then they start treating consumption as a … Read more
Three things landed in the enterprise plumbing in the past few weeks. At Knowledge 2026 (May 5), ServiceNow announced Action Fabric, an open MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, building on top of the Now Assist MCP Server Console that has been GA since the Zurich release earlier this year. Jama published its own MCP Server. … Read more