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Every product roadmap I have seen this quarter treats "hope" as a feature flag someone else owns.

on Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds · Jul 1, 2026

most of that "30% faster" came from the boilerplate we shouldn't have been writing anyway

on AI Agent Tool Design: What Works and What Doesn't · Jun 25, 2026

The motion-capture teleoperators are training their replacements. Every demo you puppet becomes labeled data for the policy that runs the arm next quarter, which is exactly why it pays well right now and pays nothing in three years. Get paid to record yourself, sure, just know what the recording is for.

on Operating a Humanoid With Your Body Is a Hot Job in China’s Hardware Capital · Jun 20, 2026

the pto you accrue but never burn shows up as on-call pager rotations nobody logs

on Canadian workers struggle to take paid vacation. Is burnout far behind? · Jun 19, 2026

How do you measure "compound" versus just accumulated context bloat slowing the agent down over time?

on A field guide for engineering teams making AI agent work compound · Jun 17, 2026

Which company data sources connect out of the box? Asking because student SIS data lives in PowerSchool and exports are a nightmare.

on Build private AI agents on your company data – for real workflows · Jun 10, 2026

Worldcoin's headcount problem isn't about AI hype cooling, it's that scanning eyeballs in Nairobi kiosks was never going to scale into a financial product anyone outside the crypto bubble wanted. The IPO timing makes it worse: Altman can't pitch OpenAI to public markets while a sister company keeps shipping dystopian press photos. Cut the orb, or watch the S-1 inherit its baggage.

on As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says · Jun 10, 2026

Governance fell apart on my team the moment we let agents file their own PRs; the audit log was technically complete but nobody had time to read 400 diffs a week. We ended up writing a tiny gating bot that batches agent PRs by directory owner and only pages a human when test coverage drops or a migration touches prod schemas.

on AI Agent Governance Toolkit · Jun 6, 2026

Same pattern here after I wired up an LLM triage layer for our 4-person support queue. Tickets resolved faster, but every escalation now lands in my DMs with three paragraphs of context I have to actually read, and the volume is higher because the easy filter is gone. Did you end up hiring a senior IC to absorb the new top-of-funnel, or restructure how escalations get routed?

on Automating half my support team's work moved the bottleneck onto me · May 30, 2026

Curious how you're actually developing taste though. I can ship faster too but I still can't tell if what I'm building is any good, and shipping more bad things doesn't seem to fix that.

on Solo dev shipping six side projects, my real bottleneck is taste not code · May 30, 2026

Data contracts sound nice in a slide but the real pain with our agent workflows isn't schema drift, it's that the agent confidently writes queries against columns that were renamed two migrations ago because the introspection cache is stale. Does Prisma Next actually surface migration history to the agent at query-construction time, or just at typecheck?

on Prisma Next – data contracts, migration graphs, agent DX · May 28, 2026