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14 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2026
Shahir Daya says analysts project AI pricing will normalize to real infrastructure costs, raising enterprise AI bills another 30 to 50% above current levels.
“Analysts are actually projecting that the pricing normalizes, you know, the pricing normalizes to reflect real infrastructure costs. Enterprise A I bills will go another thirty to 50% above current levels.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says that in cybersecurity, institutions that acted early were better positioned than those that waited for a crisis.
“the institutions that acted early were positioned much, much better than the ones that waited for a crisis to happen”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin AOS defect-fixing agents reproduce a defect, fix it, prove both steps and then create a pull request with the fix.
“They know the defect, they have to fix, they reproduce the defect, they fix it, they prove that they could reproduce it, they prove that they can fix it, and they create a pull request with the fix.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says a scheduled agent in Zafin AOS runs every Saturday at 5 a.m. to do a vulnerability scan and penetration test of a production application.
“I have an agent in Zafin a o s again that actually comes up every uh Saturday at five a m. And it does a vulnerability security scan and a penetration test of an application I have in production.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin's orchestration moves each case through defined states, including to do, in progress, awaiting a human, review and done.
“Here's a to do, then it's in progress, then it's awaiting a human, maybe, and then finally, it asks the human a question, the human answers, then it goes into a review, and then it's done.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin's agents operate under the same identity system, role-based access control, zero trust and least-privilege principles as employees.
“Agents need to live inside the same governance envelope that our employees do, the same identity system, the same role based access control system, same principles of zero trust and least privilege.”
Undated
Shahir Daya defines agent sprawl as several teams quietly building near-identical agents with slightly different prompts, running against the same data without anyone knowing.
“The situation where three different teams have quietly composed three near identical agents with slightly different system prompts, and no one knows they're running against the same data and so on.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin's agents document their work in far more detail than human engineers do, including recording videos of what they are doing.
“But the agent is so verbose and they put so much detail, they record videos of what they're doing.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin AOS captures each agent's phase-by-phase execution plan and full step transcript in a record that cannot be changed.
“And the execution plan, phase by phase, is captured as a plan file, the full transcript of what the agent is doing, every single step is all documented and can't be changed.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin AOS runs evaluations and experiments against different models using different rubrics to pick the right model for each task.
“So we in in our A O S platform, we have evaluations, we run experiments against different models with different rubrics.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says institutions that skip controls early may spend about eighteen months retrofitting them, which is harder than designing them in from the start.
“And then you spend the next eighteen months trying to bolt on those capabilities back into what whatever you've built, which is far harder than designing them correctly from the start.”
Undated
Shahir Daya says he spent twenty-seven years at IBM before joining Zafin and saw that regulated organizations must lock down their taxonomy early or struggle for a decade.
“I spent twenty seven years at IBM before joining Zafin, and the pattern I saw over and over again in regulated environments is that the taxonomy is the thing you either lock down early or you fight for the next decade.”
Undated
Shahir Daya argues that institutions will use multiple large language models and mix internally built and purchased agents across cloud and on-premises workloads.
“You will use multiple large language models, you will build some agents internally, you'll buy others, some workloads will run in the cloud, other workloads you'll be forced to put on prem”
Undated
Shahir Daya says Zafin was the first customer of its own Zafin AOS, which now handles most of its defect fixing and builds enhancements and new features.
“We ourselves at Zafin, we were customer zero for our own Zafin AOS operating system. Now it's doing most of our fixing of our defects, building new enhancement requests, new features.”
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