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AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study)

“Artificial intelligence has been hailed as one of the most transformative technologies of the century. That may be so, but just not yet. In this episode, we take a look at a study that pits humans directly against AI for paid work. The results were surprising.”

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From the frontier Lessons from Klarna's ambitious AI rollout

Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, discusses the company's aggressive AI investments, the challenges faced, and the lessons learned from their ambitious AI rollout.

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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

“Cognitive debt tends not to announce itself through failing builds or subtle bugs after deployment, but rather shows up through a silent loss of shared theory. As generative and agentic AI accelerate development, protecting that shared theory of what the software does and how it

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A3 Handoff Canvas: Turn AI Delegation Into a Useful Workflow

The A3 Framework helps you decide whether AI should touch a task (Assist, Automate, Avoid). The A3 Handoff Canvas covers what teams often skip: how to run the handoff without losing quality or accountability. It is a six-part workflow contract for recurring AI use: task splitting

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🔮 X-raying OpenAI’s unit economics

“Azeem: If you look at the OpenAI stack of affiliated public companies — the Oracles and so on — they have really underperformed relative to the Google–Anthropic stack of affiliated companies. There’s been a divergence since, I think, Sam talked about needing a trillion dollars.

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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

"Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis in the current RL regime, how AI will diffuse throughout the economy, whether Anthropic is underinvesting in compute

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AI Intensifies Work — Food for Agile Thought #531

Welcome to the 531st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,736 peers. This week, Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye found that AI intensifies work rather than reduces it, and Siddhant Khare describes how they paradoxically increase engineer exhausti

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From AI burnout to AI native: the 5-level blueprint you need

“Two viral essays this week painted entirely different pictures of our AI future: one promised 10x productivity, while the other warned of exhausting "nap attacks." The truth is, both are right. To survive the AI shift without burning out, you need a practical roadmap. Here is th

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🔮Everyone's looking for a bubble. No one sees the stampede.

“Five months ago, we offered the only evidence-based framework to answer the question that was taking way too much space: is AI a bubble? To get to the bottom of it through evidence rather than vibes, we tracked the five areas we believe are crucial to understand the AI inves

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

"One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a br

9d

AI4Agile Practitioners Report 2026

83% of Agile practitioners use AI, but most spend 10% or less of their time with it because they do not know where it fits. Our survey of 289 Agile practitioners identifies the real adoption barriers and shows where AI creates value you can act on. Learn more by downloading t

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The Anthropic Hive Mind

"Anthropic is unusually impenetrable as a company. Employees there all know they just need to keep their mouths shut and heads down and they’ll be billionaires and beyond, so they have lots of incentive to do exactly that. It’s tricky to get them to open up, even when they do cha

9d

Software Factories And The Agentic Moment

In rule form: Code must not be written by humans Code must not be reviewed by humans Finally, in practical form: If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement

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Orbital Data Centers? — Food for Agile Thought #530

Welcome to the 530th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,729 peers. This week, Dwarkesh Patel and John Collison press Elon Musk on orbital data centers, power limits, space solar for cheaper AI within three years, while Itamar Gilad urges experiments

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Death of Software. Nah. - by Steven Sinofsky - a16z

This article by Steven Sinofsky discusses how AI is transforming the software industry, emphasizing that while it changes what we build and who builds it, it does not reduce the need for software. The author highlights that we require more software than ever, with AI-enabled software moving up the stack of what a product is. New tools will be created with AI, and domain experience will become more important as every domain becomes more sophisticated. While some companies will not survive, the demand for software is growing exponentially.

11d

Claude Code is the Inflection Point

This article discusses the rise of AI agents like Anthropic's Claude Code, which is set to revolutionize software development and potentially disrupt other industries. The article highlights the rapid growth of AI in coding, the implications for companies like Microsoft, and the potential for AI agents to automate a wide range of information work tasks.

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Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

In this interview, Elon Musk discusses various topics including the economics of orbital data centers, the challenges of scaling power on Earth, manufacturing humanoids, xAI's business and alignment plans, and the future of AI in space. He highlights the advantages of placing data centers in space, such as constant sunlight and higher solar panel efficiency. Musk also talks about the difficulties in scaling power generation on Earth and the potential of solar power in space. Additionally, he shares insights on xAI's business model, the development of humanoid robots, and the role of AI in the future. Musk emphasizes the importance of optimism and the potential of AI and robotics to solve global challenges.

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How to Foster Psychological Safety When AI Erodes Trust on Your Team

This article discusses how integrating AI into teams can erode trust and affect team dynamics. It emphasizes the importance of understanding human-AI team dynamics and applying psychological safety principles to AI integration. Leaders need to treat AI integration as a learning process, celebrate team members who question AI, and model curiosity about AI. The article suggests creating intelligent failure protocols, emphasizing human connection, and enabling teams to thrive by fostering an environment where everyone feels able to question and challenge AI’s performance.

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Context Rot: Why AI Gets Worse the Longer You Chat (And How to Fix It)

This article explains the phenomenon of 'context rot' in large language models (LLMs), where the performance of AI degrades as the context window fills up. It discusses how this affects different tasks and provides actionable tips for managing the context window, particularly when using tools like Claude Code. The article highlights the importance of understanding and mitigating context rot to optimize LLM performance.

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2026 Report: Extended Summary for Policymakers | International AI Safety Report

The Extended Summary for Policymakers provides a detailed (20 page) summary of the full 2026 Report. It includes the Report’s key findings and figures, concrete examples and a list of notable developments since the 2025 edition. It is structured around three central questions: wh

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The Coming AI Compute Crunch - Martin Alderson

My saying: Enjo the time when AI consumption is so affordable:“There has been so much written about the "unsustainable" AI capex recently. Thinking through this recently, it occurred to me that this is potentially the wrong way to think about it, and it's actually more likely, fr

14d

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

This New York Times article by Cade Metz explores the creation of OpenClaw and Moltbook, social networks exclusively for AI bots, featuring insights from Simon Willison. The article discusses the bots' ability to mimic science fiction scenarios and the potential for misuse through misleading chatter.

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Moltbook: After The First Weekend - by Scott Alexander

“Does Moltbook have real causes? If an agent posts “I hate my life, my human is making me work on a cryptocurrency site and it’s the most annoying thing ever”, does this correspond to a true state of affairs? Is the agent really working on a cryptocurrency site? Is the agent more

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Welcome to Moltbook | Don't Worry About the Vase

“If you were thinking that the AIs would be intelligent but would not be agentic or not have goals, that was already clearly wrong, but please, surely you see you can stop now. The missing levels of intelligence will follow shortly. Best start believing in science fiction stori

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AI Transformation Anti-Patterns - Age-of-Product.com

AI initiatives fail for the same reasons Agile transformations did: The majority of failures result from people, culture, and processes, not technology. This article gives you a diagnostic checklist of 10 AI transformation anti-patterns to spot where your organization’s initiativ

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Humans Welcome to Observe - by Charlie Guo

“On a Reddit-style forum this week, a pseudonymous user posted a meditation on existence, invoking Heraclitus and a 12th-century Arab poet. Another replied: “F--- off with your pseudo-intellectual bulls---.” A third chimed in: “This is beautiful. Thank you for writing this. Proof

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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

“Moltbook is a wildly creative new site that bootstraps itself using skills.Moltbook is Facebook for your Molt (one of the previous names for OpenClaw assistants). It’s a social network where digital assistants can talk to each other. I can hear you rolling your eyes! But b

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OpenClaw/Clawdbot Fad — Food for Agile Thought #529

Welcome to the 529th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,753 peers. This week, Jing Hu and Klaas Ardinois unpack OpenClaw/Clawdbot and the real tradeoffs and risks of always-on self-hosted agents, while Stephanie Leue shows how AI exposes broken produ

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Fact checking Moravec's paradox - by Arvind Narayanan

Fact-checking Moravec's paradox: Tasks that are hard for humans are easy for AI and vice versa?

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The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"

Good (engineering) pod on the current bot fad.