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CURSOR FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS

Cursor lets PMs execute, not just spec, but it works best with code literacy and patience for integration issues. Real leverage comes when AI workflows extend beyond one PM to the whole team.

TALKING AGENTIC AI WITH JULIEN BRUN (49 MINUTE PODCAST)

AI agents turn conversation into action and push software costs toward zero, making unique insight, fast decision-making, and agent “skills” the real sources of value. Long-term abundance is possible, but the transition, especially around jobs and alignment, will be disruptive and must be handled carefully.

SAAS ISN'T DEAD. BUT THE WAY YOU USED TO WIN IN B2B? THAT'S GONE

SaaS is not dead, but the old B2B playbook of category lock-in, heavy sales spend, and autopilot expansion is finished. AI-native companies are winning by shipping faster, delivering clear ROI, and earning retention through real innovation instead of switching costs.

THE CASE FOR HUMANS

AI makes building faster and cheaper, but it cannot replace human accountability, judgment, and community. As output becomes abundant, lasting advantage comes from ownership, differentiation, trust, and shared meaning, all of which remain human.

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HOW OPENAI'S CODEX TEAM WORKS AND LEVERAGES AI

The Codex team is a small, autonomous group that embeds AI into every stage of development, from planning to code review and onboarding. By empowering full ownership and treating AI as a core teammate, they move at startup speed while maintaining high quality and scale.

HOW TO DESIGN WITH AI (61 MINUTE VIDEO)

PMs can design with AI by using structured workflows that turn ideas into prototypes quickly, then iterating with users and stakeholders. The key is choosing the right tools for each step and evaluating outputs for real problem-solving, accessibility, and feasibility, not just pretty screens.

RESEARCH IS LEADERSHIP, AND CODE CAN HELP

Code has not been the real bottleneck in software productivity for decades. Weak user research and fractured organizational systems are. As AI speeds up coding, teams risk building the wrong things faster unless they prioritize human-centered research and sustained ownership over output.

HOW GOOGLE TRANSFORMED EMAIL

Gmail won by reshaping both the economics and experience of email, combining cheap infrastructure, contextual ads, and a fast search-first interface to offer abundant free storage. Incumbents, trapped by scarcity mindsets and banner-ad models, could not adapt quickly enough to compete.

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INSIDER AMNESIA

People routinely misjudge what is happening inside tech companies because they lack the internal context behind decisions.

WHAT MOST FOUNDERS GET WRONG ABOUT PRODUCT/MARKET FIT

True fit reveals itself through organic word-of-mouth growth, not paid acquisition.

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CAN OPENAI BUILD ALEXA BEFORE AMAZON CAN BUILD CHATGPT?

OpenAI and Amazon are currently racing to execute an AI device strategy. Interestingly, Amazon reportedly plans to invest $50 billion into OpenAI's newest funding round. Amazon is also the largest shareholder in OpenAI's chief startup rival, Anthropic. New reports suggest that OpenAI may be building custom models for Amazon's products, even while it is hard at work on its first devices.

APPLE'S NEXT BIG THING IS A PUSH INTO VISUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The defining feature of Apple's push into wearable AI devices will be Visual Intelligence. Apple CEO Tim Cook has been dropping hints about AI wearables built around AI technology that can see the surrounding environment and use that context to take action. The company is working on its own visual models with the intention of making them central to its upcoming set of AI devices, which include advanced AirPods, smart glasses, and a pendant. Apple plans to hold its first product launches of the year in March.

HAVE WE LEAPT INTO COMMERCIAL GENETIC TESTING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT?

Polygenic scores tally the contributions of many genes to particular traits to predict certain outcomes. They are probabilistic, not deterministic, as many traits are determined by environmental factors as well as genes. Potential parents using IVF are now able to choose embryos based on their polygenic scores. While it is understandable that parents want to give their kids the best chance of success, the practice may have unintended consequences on the human gene pool, not to mention the ethical implications.

AI DATA CENTERS TURN TO HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS

Microsoft is exploring the potential use of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) as a replacement for copper wiring. HTS could improve energy efficiency by reducing transmission loss. It could also increase the resiliency of electrical grids and limit the impact of data centers on communities by reducing the amount of space required to move power. Microsoft has invested $75 million into Veir, a superconducting power technology developer, to advance the technology.

CODE MODE: GIVE AGENTS AN ENTIRE API IN 1,000 TOKENS

Cloudflare has introduced a new MCP for the entire Cloudflare API that uses Code Mode. The server can provide access to the entire Cloudflare API over MCP while consuming only around 1,000 tokens. Code Mode is a technique for reducing context window usage during agent tool use. It involves letting the model write code against a typed SDK and executing the code safely in a Dynamic Worker Loader instead of describing every operation as a separate tool. The code acts as a compact plan, and the model can explore tool operations, compose multiple calls, and return just the data it needs.

HOW OPENAI'S CODEX TEAM WORKS AND LEVERAGES AI

OpenAI's Codex team has reimagined how an engineering organization can function in an AI-native world. The team operates with a high level of trust, autonomy, and speed. Decision-making is fast, ownership is clear, and individuals are empowered to build end-to-end. The team has truly embraced AI as a way to be more productive. AI is treated as a first-class teammate that shapes planning, execution, review, onboarding, and iteration. This allows the team to move with startup-level velocity while working on some of the most complex systems in the world.

ENTIRELY FORESEEABLE AWS OUTAGES

Amazon Web Services experienced at least two minor outages at the end of last year caused by malfunctions in its internal AI tooling. These outages were entirely foreseeable, even by employees. Large language models are extremely complex systems, and this complexity creates real risk. Amazon never misses a chance to point to 'AI' when it is useful, but when there's an outage, suddenly it's just a 'coincidence' that AI tools were involved.

ATOMS ARE CHEAP, PROCESS IS PRICEY

Fast feedback loops allow you to get ideas to reality more quickly. This pattern is seen in every successful frontier tech effort. The common thread is treating reality as the teacher and getting to class as often as possible. Iterate fast, and validate using reality instead of thinking your way to perfect solutions.

MINIONS: STRIPE'S ONE-SHOT, END-TO-END CODING AGENTS—PART 2

Stripe's Minions are a great example of how to blend industry-standard concepts with internal tooling and infrastructure to maximize developer productivity.

MICROSOFT GAMING CHIEF PHIL SPENCER STEPS DOWN AFTER 38 YEARS WITH COMPANY

Asha Sharma, the executive currently in charge of Microsoft's CoreAI division, will take his place.

HALF THE AI AGENT MARKET IS ONE CATEGORY. THE REST IS WIDE OPEN

Software engineering accounts for nearly half of all AI agent tool calls, while fields like healthcare, legal, and finance are barely touched.

HOW I THINK ABOUT CODEX

Codex is comprised of a model that provides intelligence, a harness that turns that intelligence into something that can safely operate in a real development environment, and runtimes and interfaces where agents can be put to work.

DESIGN DOCS CONSIDERED HARMFUL

You have the least amount of information at the beginning of a project, which is when design docs ask you to make the most decisions.

PEOPLE LOVED THE DOT-COM BOOM. THE AI BOOM, NOT SO MUCH

The public is showing underwhelming enthusiasm for the tech industry's plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.

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MICROSOFT DEVELOPS COPILOT ADVISORS TO DEBATE ON ANY TOPIC

Microsoft is developing Copilot Advisors for debating any topic using AI personas like legal or finance experts. Users choose two agents who argue with distinct voices, possibly with animated portraits. This feature aims to enhance individual analysis and decision-making by presenting strong cases from both sides.

CLAUDE CODE SECURITY RESEARCH PREVIEW

Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security in a limited research preview, enabling automated scans of codebases to surface context-dependent vulnerabilities and propose targeted patches for human review.

ANTHROPIC RESEARCH: MEASURING AI AGENT AUTONOMY IN PRACTICE

Anthropic announced the release of its improved Claude LLM, focusing on enhanced safety and performance. The update includes better handling of complex queries and increased integration capabilities for businesses. This aims to provide improved utility in various professional applications.

THE FILE SYSTEM IS THE NEW DATABASE: HOW I BUILT A PERSONAL OS FOR AI AGENTS

Personal Brain OS is a file-based personal operating system that lives inside a Git repository designed to stop agents from forgetting important context information. It contains everything the AI assistant needs to recreate users' voice, brand, goals, content pipeline, research, and more. This article discusses how Personal Brain OS was built, why the architectural decisions matter, and the lessons the developer learned the hard way. The full architecture is available for anyone to clone and make their own.

WHY DEVELOPERS KEEP CHOOSING CLAUDE OVER EVERY OTHER AI

Developers keep choosing Claude Code because the alternatives keep failing them in the same way. Generating correct code is a major part of the job, but it isn't everything. Agents still need to edit files without corrupting the surrounding code, read the right files before making changes, complete multistep tasks without losing threads halfway through, know when to ask questions, and more, something no other coding agent does consistently. Claude Code stays on track more than other tools, making it the preferred choice.

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OPENAI FIRST PROOF SUBMISSIONS

OpenAI detailed its end-to-end proof attempts on all ten First Proof research problems, a domain-specific challenge designed to test whether AI systems can produce fully checkable mathematical arguments. The post outlined evaluation feedback from field experts, revisions to earlier correctness claims, and included a preprint with all proofs plus an appendix documenting prompt patterns used to simulate iterative human–model collaboration.

THE CODING AGENT IS DEAD

The current generation of coding agents isn't the future. The newest models can be powerful with nearly any tool thrown at them, with bash often being enough. Codebase organization is now the bottleneck. Amp plans to kill the Amp editor extensions for VS Code and Cursor on March 5. It will continue to work on the Amp CLI, which is flexible, light, easy to change, and can be run anywhere at anytime.

ALPHAEVOLVE DISCOVERS NEW MULTI-AGENT LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Using an evolutionary coding agent powered by large language models, the work automatically generated new algorithms for imperfect-information games across CFR and PSRO paradigms. The discovered VAD-CFR and SHOR-PSRO variants introduced adaptive discounting and hybrid optimistic meta-solvers, showing improved empirical convergence over strong baselines.

LEVERAGING OPENCLAW AS A WEB DEVELOPER

Web developers can integrate OpenClaw to automate repetitive tasks like scaffolding routes, generating tests, and updating documentation directly from natural‑language prompts. Developers with domain context can teach OpenClaw project‑specific patterns that improve code quality and consistency without manual intervention.

CHATGPT ADS NOW HIT ON YOUR VERY FIRST MESSAGE

OpenAI is now testing ads in ChatGPT for Free and Go users in the US, with companies like Expedia and Qualcomm appearing after a user's first message. The beta charges $60 CPM with a $200,000 minimum investment, only including large-budget brands, and excludes paid subscribers.

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WHY IS CLAUDE AN ELECTRON APP?

Claude is an Electron app because developer familiarity and simpler maintainability across multiple platforms are worth the tradeoffs.