Interview #89 TVN Reddy, CEO of Aptean

<p>TVN Reddy, CEO of Aptean, breaks down why the entire software industry is selling &quot;bigger is better&quot; AI while the real goal is the opposite: people spending 80% less time in systems and more time doing the work that actually drives the business. He explains why general purpose models hand every competitor the same 95% while the deep vertical 5% drives the outsized gains, why enterprise AI is unusable past roughly a half percent error rate, and why validation agents beat the instinct to hire three people to check the AI&#39;s work. TVN also digs into the quiet security crisis of employees pasting P&amp;Ls and proprietary recipes into public LLMs that never had training turned off, and why agents bolted onto generic models won&#39;t scale without truly vertical models underneath. Finally, he shares why the winners won&#39;t be the companies with the hottest models but the ones with the courage to re-engineer their processes, because every big technology removes old constraints only to create new ones. This episode contains sponsored content.</p>