AI Agents
The AI Automation Problem Is Mostly Not AI
Most companies do not need AI agents first. They need clean intake, permissions, handoffs, receipts, escalation, and workflow ownership.
Nicholas Zinner
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The K-Curve
The gap between AI power users and everyone else is widening. The interesting question is when the gap stops being a personal choice and starts being a structural requirement.
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What If AI Is Just Bad at Most Things?
AI agents in 2026 might be where smartphones were in 2008: past the proof of concept, before the mass-market product. The people saying it isn't worth the hassle aren't wrong.
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What If Exposure Breeds Exhaustion?
The tech industry assumes more exposure to AI converts skeptics into adopters. Four independent data sources say otherwise.
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We Made AI Agents Negotiate the End of the World
The same model behaved completely differently depending on who else was in the room.
Long View
Code Is Still Law
Lawrence Lessig argued code regulates as powerfully as law. AI model weights now do the same, and nobody can read them.
Sci-Fi Saturday
When Your Swarm Disagrees
AI agents disagree. One wants to cancel your meeting, another insists you need it. Nobody built a tiebreaker. Welcome to the coordination problem that gets harder with every agent you add.
What If
The (Missing) Layer Between You and Your Agents
AI products are scattered across apps, browsers, protocols, and coding tools. As companies rush to consolidate, visibility and management of your agents will become the priority.
Sci-Fi Saturday
The Imperfection Engine
A robotics startup discovers that broken data produces better robots. Two Cold War-era novelists already knew why.
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What If Your Personal Devices Formed an Agent Swarm?
This is an edition of What If, where we take a real development in AI and follow it somewhere it hasn't gone yet. Recently we dug into the quantization underground enabling frontier model to run on consumer hardware. This week: what happens when those models stop being tools
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The Quantization Underground: How a 4-Line Hack Taught AI Models to Forget Selectively
How a GitHub issue about variable bit rates spawned an underground compression movement that lets 7-billion-parameter models run on a phone.
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Bright Signals — April 15, 2026
Waypoint-1.5 generates interactive 3D worlds on a consumer GPU. Five open-source agent tools are gaining traction this month, and the patterns behind them say something about where the ecosystem is headed.