February 22, 2026
Every Road Leads Home
OpenAI's Codex explainer is the clearest decomposition of agentic coding I've read — just remember who drew the map.
Commentary3 min readAI in PracticeCritical Thinking
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February 22, 2026
The Coffee Was Flowing
Greg Isenberg's forty-odd AI predictions contain some sharp observations about agency economics and SaaS fragility — buried under a pile of pattern-matching from the outside.
Commentary4 min readAI and SocietyCritical Thinking
February 21, 2026
Start at Level 1, Finish at Our Pricing Page
A popular five-level framework for building AI agents maps suspiciously well to one company's feature set. The advice is sound. The taxonomy is a product tour.
Commentary4 min readAI AgentsAI Strategy
February 21, 2026
The Pivot Is Dead, Long Live the Pivot
Amp kills its editor extensions and declares coding agents dead. The insight about shrinking scaffolding value is real. The framing as boldness rather than retreat is not.
Commentary3 min readAI AgentsAI Strategy
February 21, 2026
The Weapon You Only Give to the Good Guys
Anthropic's Claude Code Security finds real vulnerabilities that survived decades of review. The tool is impressive. The access model raises harder questions.
Commentary5 min readAI SecurityAI in Practice
February 21, 2026
The World Is Human. The Cap Table Isn't.
A thoughtful argument that AI depends on human judgment runs headfirst into the reality that the companies building these systems treat that judgment as a cost to optimise away.
Commentary3 min readAI and JobsAI Strategy
February 21, 2026
Thirty Days to What, Exactly
A viral AI curriculum thread contains useful technical orientation — buried inside manufactured urgency and unexamined economics.
Commentary4 min readAI EducationCritical Thinking
February 21, 2026
When the Diagnosis Is the Product
Bryan Johnson's AI collapse thesis is sharp — right up until the moment it becomes a launch sequence for his own brand.
Commentary3 min readAI and SocietyCritical Thinking
February 20, 2026
Software Is a Social Contract
Hebbia's George Sivulka makes the best case yet for vertical software: the product isn't the code, it's the agreement. He's mostly right.
Commentary4 min readAI StrategyEnterprise Software
February 20, 2026
The Bottleneck Moved, but the Hype Didn't
Shubham Saboo says the only skills that matter in 2026 are AI-native ones. The workflow observations are real. The universality claim isn't.
Commentary4 min readAI SkillsAI Hype
February 20, 2026
The Cost of Reading Venture Capital Career Advice
Amy Tam frames AI career moves as compound interest. The judgment-over-execution insight is real. The urgency architecture is venture capital thinking applied where it doesn't belong.
Commentary4 min readAI SkillsAI Hype
February 20, 2026
The Distribution Problem Is Real, but It's Solvable
Obie Fernandez says your multi-year AI strategy is a death sentence. The advice is good. The 'one engineer, one weekend' framing isn't.
Commentary4 min readAI StrategyEnterprise Software
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