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You Need More Software Engineers with Ashwin Ballal of Freshworks

CIO Classified by Caspian Studios

Sep 24, 202600:30:16Technology

Freshworks CIO Ashwin Ballal explains why counting tokens is the wrong way to measure AI success, and why most organizations are still forcing AI into workflows built for humans.

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