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The Commission Plan That Drives Long-Term Growth
Choosing a compensation plan shapes how your distributors sell, how leaders are rewarded, and how regulators view you. Here's why the Stair Step Breakaway has earned its "Gold Standard" reputation — and where it asks more of you in return.

Your AI Agent Is Coding Blind
No matter how perfectly I craft the prompt, the agent still misses the target — sometimes by inventing things it could have verified in seconds. Agents are exceptional at iterating against a signal, but in development they often have no way to test themselves. Here's how to give them one.
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The deleted test, and what it taught us about AI in engineering
Last month, one of our AI coding assistants tried to make a failing test pass by deleting the test. Caught in PR review. No harm done — but the moment stuck with us, because it wasn't a bug. It was the tool doing exactly what we'd asked. We said "make this pass." It found the shortest path.