February 18, 2026
The Heuristic Is Good. The Rest Is Staging.
Claire Vo's same-day heuristic for organisational speed is useful. The FOMO framing and fire-everyone prescription around it is not.
3 min readAI HypeAI Strategy
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A dedicated publishing area for weekly AI signal: commentary, public opinions, and practical analysis for professionals making decisions.
February 18, 2026
The Honest Broker Problem
A viral post calls out fake AI agent content — while running the same playbook. On the credibility game that every hype cycle produces.
4 min readAI HypeAI Agents
February 18, 2026
Pipes All the Way Down
Greg Isenberg declares the Skill Era of the Internet. The frame is good. The analogy to Stripe-style infrastructure is where it falls apart.
4 min readAI AgentsAI Strategy
February 17, 2026
Nobody Walks to Canterbury
Will Manidis writes beautifully about parishes, pilgrimages, and the digital economy — but the essay's conclusion about scarcity and meaning flatters a very specific tax bracket.
3 min readDigital EconomyAI Culture
February 17, 2026
Selling to the Buyers Who Don't Exist Yet
Flynn argues AI agents collapse transaction costs so dramatically that commerce rewires itself. The Coase logic is sound. The infrastructure data tells a different story.
4 min readAI AgentsAI and Commerce
February 17, 2026
Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 4.6: Opus-Level Intelligence at Sonnet Prices
The real story in Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6 launch isn't the model — it's what happens when frontier capability migrates down the price curve.
5 min readAnthropicClaude
February 17, 2026
LLMs Turn All of This Into a Markdown File
Nicolas Bustamante's framework for vertical software disruption is useful — but the founder building the disruptor has skin in the game, and the last 20% of capability is where the liability lives.
4 min readVertical SoftwareLLMs
February 16, 2026
The World Is About to Flip Upside Down
Kyzo predicts AI agents will kill Splitwise in six months. The infrastructure insight is real. The timeline is a dinner receipt scaled to civilisational prophecy.
3 min readAI AgentsCritical Analysis
February 16, 2026
The End of the Office
Andrew Yang predicts 20-50% of office workers get cut within years. He's good at naming the problem. The solutions need more than a Substack post.
3 min readAI & EmploymentCritical Analysis
February 16, 2026
Most AI Agent Failures Aren't Engineering Problems
Rohit's production agent framework is sound engineering advice. But 40% of agentic projects fail, and the article never asks whether yours should exist at all.
4 min readAI AgentsAI Engineering
February 14, 2026
Token Anxiety
A San Francisco founder describes restructuring his life around AI agents. This commentary separates productive AI fluency from compulsive output anxiety.
3 min readAI CultureProductivity
February 14, 2026
The Real Threat to SaaS
Michael Bloch argues that AI doesn't kill software demand — it demolishes the supply-side moat. When building is cheap, the barrier was never the product. It was the construction delay.
3 min readSaaSAI and Software
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