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A major transformation is underway as businesses create and scale their agentic workforce. Businesses scaled their agentic workforces from an average of 5 activated agents in February 2025 to 13 by April 2026—growing agent production nearly 3X at a 7% compound monthly growth rate.

Agents are moving from simple tasks to handling autonomous, multi-step workflows. The average number of unique skills that each agent is able to act on rose from an average of 2 at the beginning of 2025 to 6 by the end of the year as seasonal demand grew in industries like Retail and Financial Services. When demand for agents is highest, each agent takes on triple the capability to support businesses.

Not only is the volume of unique skills rising, but agents are increasingly taking on secondary functions. For example, service agents are taking commerce and marketing actions, expanding the versatility of what they can do for customers and businesses. The data shows that employees are growing more confident about which actions they can entrust to agents, and agents are also acting on those tasks when conversations call for it.

The "Action-to-Output" ratio is growing at a 15% Compound Monthly Growth Rate (CMGR). This means agents are triggering external business logic rather than just generating text. This ratio increases during times of seasonal demand.

As employees increasingly hand off complex tasks to AI agents, Salesforce developed a new way to measure that activity: the Agentic Work Unit (AWU). An AWU represents one discrete unit of work completed by an AI agent — a task reasoned through, a decision made, an action taken. As of April 2026, Agentforce agents produced 734M AWUs - increasing by 15% month-over-month. As of April 2026, Agentforce agents’ AWU output is increasing by a 15% CMGR (compound monthly growth rate).

Leveraging agents creates tangible results with customers. Retailers that deployed AI agents during the holiday shopping season saw a 4X higher sales growth rate.

After they deploy AI agents, customer service organizations report that the #1 improved KPI is customer satisfaction — ranking ahead of service rep productivity, average handle time, customer retention, and first-response time.

77% of shoppers that engaged with on site branded shopper agents feel more confident with their purchase.

74% of shoppers trust the recommendations they receive from AI agents/agentic search.

Godier's apology:
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

The place where the open source owner (Beher) first brought up his version of Dark Hours and how they both had the same bug:
https://bsky.app/profile/terrygodier.com/post/3ms2lm4kcfc2j

This story trended on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863

Both Godier and Beher used Claude to build their apps and both apps had the same bug (but Beher had fixed his.)

Writing unit tests for business logic is understandable as you are really just testing the logic which was written from scratch.

Also writing unit tests for self-contained custom UI components like a custom data table is also understandable as all custom stuff is usually buggy and all the inputs/outputs for self-contained stuff is easy to mock.

But how about the overall UI stuff?

I hear people writing units tests for:

• To test that the components in a third party library behave as intended: e.g. that a Button component actually displays the label that as passed in a clicking it calls the callback
• To test for the existence of a login button on the login page
• To test for the existence of all buttons/links in all pages of an app
• To test that entering credentials in a login page will login the user

What other types of UI tests do you write?

For decades, the legal structure has been a favored vehicle of Chinese tycoons to hold everything from pre-IPO stakes to family fortunes — and their tax treatment in China was never spelled out. But on July 24, China’s Ministry of Finance and tax authority issued the clearest rules yet on how they should be taxed.

Now a 20% levy will be collected at nearly every stage of a trust’s life, from establishment to profit distribution and termination. Families need to declare and pay outstanding amounts on assets transferred into such trusts since the start of 2023 by Oct. 22 — a total window of 90 days. Late declarations or non-payments could incur surcharges.

That countdown has set off a scramble across Hong Kong and Singapore, popular destinations for China-linked families to set up trust structures.

“Many clients, trustees, and advisors are still in shock,” said Clifford Ng, a Hong Kong-based partner at Zhong Lun law firm.

Assets held under trusts in Hong Kong alone reached HK$5.2 trillion ($667 billion) in 2023, with 55% of the underlying investments located in mainland China and Hong Kong, according to a report by KPMG and the Hong Kong Trustees’ Association, which called the mainland the industry’s most significant growth driver.

Singapore, along with the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, has been favored as another legal hub for Chinese high-net-worth families to hold offshore assets. KPMG found some clients see less political risk in the city-state than in Hong Kong, according to a report released in 2025.

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How strictly should I avoid a Node/Express handler returning a value to the client, but have some process continue in the background to finish processing it?

If the background is expected to take another 1~2 seconds is it acceptable?

Or should I avoid them and relegate all background tasks, big or small, to a dedicated job queue at the cost of complexity.