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All past digests. 35 issues and counting.
May 2026
The compute wars are evolving into platform wars. While companies fight over GPUs, the real question is who builds the infrastructure that developers actually want to use when those million-token models are ready for production.
Friday, May 8, 2026The infrastructure wars are heating up. While everyone talks about model quality, the real battle is happening behind the scenes: who can get enough compute to keep their AI tools running when millions of people want to use them at once.
Thursday, May 7, 2026Coding agents are getting serious infrastructure backing, but the companies building them are missing a massive audience shift that's happening right under their noses.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026The enterprise AI agent wave is getting real infrastructure. Yesterday we talked about the job boom coming from AI implementation. Today we're seeing the tools that will power it.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026Yesterday we talked about who's going to debug 100 AI agents when they break. Today, we're learning who's going to implement them in the first place. Spoiler: it's going to be a lot more people than anyone thinks.
Monday, May 4, 2026Everyone's building AI agents this week. The awkward question nobody's asking: who's going to debug them when they break?
Sunday, May 3, 2026The AI agent revolution is hitting its first reality check. While everyone's been debating whether agents will replace jobs, the people actually building with them are discovering something more nuanced: how you think about your AI matters more than what it can technically do.
Saturday, May 2, 2026The cybersecurity AI war just got real. While everyone's been talking about agents replacing workers, the actual battle is happening in security teams: AI attackers versus AI defenders, and the defenders just got some serious new weapons.
Friday, May 1, 2026Yesterday we saw Vercel betting on agent-first developer tools. Today, we're seeing what happens when that bet pays off: companies are creating entirely new job roles just to manage AI systems, and the biggest names in tech are racing to put their most powerful models directly into business workflows.
April 2026
The AI infrastructure landscape is splitting in two: companies building tools for humans versus tools for AI agents. And the early winners are betting everything on the latter.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026The gap between Silicon Valley's agent hype and enterprise reality just got a perfect illustration. While VCs tweet about AI taking over everything, Fortune 500 CTOs are still trying to figure out why their $2 million ChatGPT deployment didn't move the productivity needle.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026Everyone's building AI agents this week. The awkward question nobody's asking: who's going to manage the humans who have to manage the agents?
Monday, April 27, 2026Yesterday we talked about SAP's CTO calling AI a business model shift. Today, Replit's CEO just mapped out what comes next: cybersecurity becomes the new infrastructure layer that every company needs to master.
Sunday, April 26, 2026SAP's CTO just admitted something most enterprise vendors won't: AI isn't a technology upgrade, it's a business model overhaul. While startups chase the latest model releases, the companies that actually run the world's supply chains are quietly figuring out what happens when your "operating system" gets intelligence.
Saturday, April 25, 2026Box CEO Aaron Levie called AI agents the future yesterday. Today he's admitting they might actually make us work more, not less. That gap between the AI productivity promise and reality is about to hit every knowledge worker who thought Claude would clear their calendar.
Friday, April 24, 2026Box CEO Aaron Levie called new ChatGPT agents "the biggest news yet in software going headless." Meanwhile, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch is dealing with the messy reality of what happens when AI systems get compromised. The gap between the AI future we're building and the security problems we're ignoring keeps getting wider.
Thursday, April 23, 2026Box CEO Aaron Levie is still the only person talking sense about AI agents. While everyone else argues about which model is best, he's asking who's actually going to make this stuff work in the real world.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026Everyone's building AI agents this week. The awkward question nobody's asking: who's going to debug them when they break?
Tuesday, April 21, 2026Vercel's security breach this week shows how AI platforms are becoming the new attack vector. When your developer tools get compromised, the blast radius isn't just your company anymore — it's every customer whose code runs through your infrastructure.
Monday, April 20, 2026The infrastructure conversation is shifting from "how do we make AI work?" to "how do we rebuild everything AI just broke?" Two Box CEO insights this week tell the story: first agents will use software 100x more than humans, now they're making your entire architecture obsolete every quarter.
Sunday, April 19, 2026The agent infrastructure conversation is getting specific. Yesterday we talked about reliability. Today it's about who controls the platform when your software gets used 100x more than before.
Saturday, April 18, 2026Everyone's talking about AI agents this week, but the real conversation is shifting from "can they work?" to "how do we keep them working?" The infrastructure problems are finally getting honest answers.
Friday, April 17, 2026Yesterday we talked about AI agents needing babysitters. Today's follow-up: the real money isn't in replacing jobs with AI. It's in creating new bottlenecks that need humans to solve.
Thursday, April 16, 2026The honeymoon phase of "just deploy an AI agent" is officially over. Today's reality check: agents need babysitters, vendors are becoming service providers, and the infrastructure around AI is getting more complex, not simpler.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026Yesterday we talked about enterprises moving from AI chat to real automation. Today, we're seeing what that actually looks like: new job titles, open-source platforms, and the infrastructure decisions that matter when AI agents become part of your payroll.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026Enterprise IT leaders are done experimenting with ChatGPT. Box CEO Aaron Levie just spent a week with dozens of them, and the message is clear: it's time to move from AI chat toys to agents that actually do the work.
Monday, April 13, 2026Amazon spent more on data centers in the last three years than in its entire history. That's not about today's ChatGPT users — it's about what happens when AI agents start doing everyone's job.
Sunday, April 12, 2026Enterprise software is about to get a brutal reality check. If your product doesn't have APIs that agents can talk to, you're not just behind — you're obsolete.
Saturday, April 11, 2026The infrastructure wars are shifting to a new front: who can help humans and AI agents communicate better. While everyone else optimizes for speed and cost, the real value is in bridging the understanding gap.
Friday, April 10, 2026The agent infrastructure wars just got real. What took weeks to build now takes minutes, and the companies solving deployment complexity are about to own the next phase of AI adoption.
Thursday, April 9, 2026Yesterday we talked about coding eating all knowledge work. Today, we're seeing what that actually looks like as AI agents graduate from chatbots to autonomous workers that disappear for hours and return with finished projects.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026Small teams are about to get scary good. While everyone debates which model is smartest, the real shift is happening in how work gets done when AI handles the grunt work and humans focus on decisions.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026While OpenAI and Anthropic throw billions at the AI race, Chinese labs are quietly shipping practical solutions that solve real problems. Today's releases show they're not just catching up anymore.
Monday, April 6, 2026The AI industry is putting serious money behind making artificial intelligence work better in the real world, with both OpenAI and Anthropic announcing major investments this week.
Sunday, April 5, 2026The two biggest AI labs just dropped major upgrades on the same day, while a former OpenAI VP is building something entirely different with atoms instead of tokens.