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March 7, 2026
Clara Shih's AI displacement essay uses the China Shock as its frame. The diagnosis is the best this cycle. The policy section commits the error it critiques.
March 7, 2026
Kothari's Ford analogy for AI and org structure is precisely right. The advice to ignore the system works best for people who can afford the cost of ignoring it.
March 7, 2026
Ese Kpeji's viral London-not-SF piece nails the connective tissue problem. Calling pub culture a moat is where observation becomes wishful thinking.
March 7, 2026
Jamie Quint's AI data agent architecture is technically sharp. The three-week timeline and analyst displacement maths assume a foundation most teams haven't built.
March 7, 2026
Sequoia's Julien Bek says the next trillion-dollar company sells outcomes, not tools. The insight holds. The framing is a pitch memo wearing analysis.
March 5, 2026
GPT-5.4's coding and tool-use improvements are real. The claim that it 'matches professionals' is doing more heavy lifting than the model itself.
March 5, 2026
London's structural advantages for AI are real. The question nobody's asking is why those same advantages haven't fixed productivity since 2008.
March 5, 2026
OpenAI's harness engineering post contains a genuine insight about documentation as infrastructure. It is also, unmistakably, a piece of marketing.
March 3, 2026
A thorough survey of how top AI agents are actually built makes the case that the harness is the product. The data underneath tells a more complicated story.
March 3, 2026
A CEO's essay on identity and AI adaptation sounds right — until you notice the seventeen jobs lost get one paragraph and the freedom of letting go gets six.
March 3, 2026
Code review is drowning under AI-generated output. The proposed fix — specs, agents, and layered verification — diagnoses a real problem then overshoots the landing.
March 3, 2026
A viral thread says AI agents can work while you sleep, turning idle hours into output. Coal doesn't hallucinate. Spare bedrooms don't need code review.
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