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February 17, 2026
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.
February 17, 2026
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.
February 16, 2026
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.
February 16, 2026
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.
February 16, 2026
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.
February 14, 2026
Eric Markowitz argues that AI anxiety is really about decades of financialisation and hollowed-out work. He's right about the diagnosis — but personal virtue can't fix structural problems.
February 14, 2026
AI infrastructure as a relay race of sequential bottlenecks is a useful framing. The investment thesis bolted onto it is not.
February 14, 2026
When AI removes all friction, what atrophies isn't access or employment — it's desire itself. Commentary on @fede_intern's essay on post-scarcity psychology.
February 14, 2026
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.
February 14, 2026
David Ondrej's viral post about SWE-rebench gets the headline right and most of the nuance wrong. Here's what the benchmark data actually shows.
February 14, 2026
A San Francisco founder describes restructuring his life around AI agents. This commentary separates productive AI fluency from compulsive output anxiety.
February 13, 2026
Sandeep's viral post calling AI hype a coordinated psy-op makes real points about commercial incentives — then undermines them with the same all-caps certainty it criticises. Counter-hype is still hype.
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