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March 15, 2026

The Demo That Proves Its Own Point Wrong

Tsinghua's OpenMAIC correctly diagnoses passive AI education tools — then offers a more elaborate chatbot dressed in classroom language. The hard question never appears.

Commentary2 min readAI HypeAI Adoption

March 15, 2026

The Headline Undersells the Actual Insight

An agent that fails silently is more dangerous than one that fails loudly. A circulating infrastructure post buries its best insight under a generic headline.

Commentary1 min readAI and SoftwareAI Adoption

March 15, 2026

The One Paragraph That Explains Why Everyone's AI Productivity Numbers Are Contradictory

Thompson's NYT piece names the greenfield/brownfield split that explains why AI productivity claims contradict each other. It also buries its most alarming finding.

Commentary2 min readAI and SoftwareLabour Market

March 15, 2026

The Useful Insight Is Buried Under the Sales Pitch

Persistent context files are the real unlock for AI-assisted product management. The post names three PMs who prove it — then sells a shortcut past the learning.

Commentary2 min readAI AdoptionAI Hype

March 15, 2026

The Worst Employees Are About to Get Very Confident

Sivulka's essay on individual vs. institutional AI buries its best insight — that sycophantic models reinforce the people whose judgment most needs challenging.

Commentary1 min readAI AdoptionAI Hype

March 15, 2026

This Piece Buries Its Most Important Paragraph

Moonka's AI stack explainer names real numbers where others gesture. Then it gives DeepSeek one paragraph — the variable that could undo the entire thesis.

Commentary1 min readAI and EconomyMarket Narratives

March 15, 2026

When Four Teams Independently Build the Same Thing, the Pattern Is Real — Even If the Announcement Isn't Ready

Random Labs' Slate agent reveals genuine architectural convergence across multiple teams. The design primitive is real. The benchmarks are still missing.

Commentary3 min readAI and SoftwareAI Hype

March 15, 2026

Work Doesn't Get Documented Anymore. It Gets Encoded. (But Read the Footnote.)

Brescia's 'encoded company' insight names something most AI commentary misses. The Railway numbers make it vivid. The generalisation doesn't follow.

Commentary1 min readAI AdoptionAI Strategy

March 11, 2026

Most of What We Called Loyalty Was Just Friction

AI agents will dissolve friction moats — the enterprise value sitting on customer passivity. The question isn't whether. It's whether humans will actually hand over the keys.

Commentary3 min readAI and EconomyAI Strategy

March 11, 2026

Replit Shipped a Coordination Engine and Called It Creativity

Replit Agent 4 solves multi-agent orchestration — a genuinely hard coordination problem. The announcement buries it under 'creativity' and 'vibe coding.' The integrations list matters most of all.

Commentary3 min readDeveloper ToolsAI and Software

March 11, 2026

Taste Is the Differentiator — But Not for Who They Think

The halting problem explains why research taste resists automation. The salary figures and coin-flipping metaphors explain who the argument is really for.

Commentary2 min readAI and SoftwareLabour Market

March 11, 2026

The Framework Is a Sales Deck. The History Lesson Is Worth Your Time.

George Sivulka's textile mill argument gives you a mechanism for why AI adoption stalls. His seven pillars give you a product demo disguised as universal principle.

Commentary2 min readEnterprise AIAI Adoption

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