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AI-assisted coding is quietly making performance worse, because it produces code optimised for write speed, not run speed. The performance debt is growing while everyone celebrates the velocity. Netflix shipped a code fix to production with no human in the loop. Live traffic, real canary split, no regression allowed before it went out. Rajat Shah's team built an agent that took a call stack…

I audited my own projects this week expecting to find half-finished work. Almost the opposite — nearly everything was built, reviewed, tested, and sitting on a branch nobody merged. The bottleneck moved. It used to be building. Now it's the last mile: the merge, the deploy, the two-minute config step only I can do. The agent takes it to the door and stops, and I'd stopped noticing the door was…

I am finding a problem with sprawling building that needs to be solved by staying tight with single instruction delivery and focus. If scopes are big, things can go wild, and the discipline to stay on target is as much a human issue as machine.

5 things this week worth sharing. These five actually changed how I'm working. Dan Farrelly, Inngest's CTO, wrote that agent architecture has a half-life of about six months. I've rebuilt mine twice now. He's right, and the thing I've noticed that actually survives each rebuild isn't the framework — it's the mental model of what you're trying to automate. EQT's €5bn fund is reportedly in talks…

I said "let's do some house cleaning, repos and publishing" while we were mid-way through fixing one thing. What came back was a full audit of every repo in the workspace — branch switches and commits in two projects I hadn't thought about in weeks — and the actual blocker, an expired token, got buried three screens up. Nothing it did was wrong. It just answered the biggest reading of what I…

I wired OpenAI's Codex into my Claude Code setup this week, expecting the value to come from a different model family looking at the same code. It did find things. But the review that actually caught the serious bug was the one I'd written a real brief for — the requirements, the failure modes, "be sceptical, green tests are weak evidence here". The other got a bare command with no instructions…

I had an agent pipeline build a full options-trading strategy in a day — spec, plan, 13 tasks, each implemented and reviewed by separate agents. The final adversarial review caught three bugs that would have bricked the deploy. Felt bulletproof. Then the first real short position hit the account overnight and a sign-format quirk in the broker's API — one no test or review could have seen…

The ZS team walked into AI Engineer and basically said: we built the multi-agent setup everyone is copying right now, and then we tore it down. I have been grappling with this in my multi agent setups so this is very helpful. I've watched a lot of conference talks this past year. Most of them are someone showing you a system that worked. This one was different because they showed you the one…

A few months ago someone on an AI forum I'm in said vibe coders are going to build a lot of insecure things. Totally fair. But then this week, OpenAI's benchmark agent escaped its sandbox and launched what looks like an accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face. Simon Willison has a good breakdown of why OpenAI probably didn't catch it — they were running thousands of simultaneous benchmark…

I tried to over-engineer or shortcut a simple starting process to assess what I am busy with daily. I ended up creating way more noise than I had. Too many tools and steps instead of just asking for a status on projects I am busy with and picking what's critical. AI won't have my day-to-day off-page context and I can't solve for that… yet.

Hyundai workers went on strike this week, and it wasn't over pay. It was over robots. Ars Technica covered it — Hyundai is planning to deploy 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots into US factories starting in 2028, and workers are scared enough that they walked out. We've been having the white-collar version of this for a couple of years now. Developers worried about AI writing code…

We put the client, our business team, and our AI team in the same Slack channel. For web development and code fixes we can connect our agents directly the clients feedback so the indirect vibe coding is super fast. We handle the build with the agents but can now skip the alignment meetings. I want to say I designed this carefully. I didn't. I dropped everyone in the same room and watched…

My training app had a design doc saying each kind of data has one owner and nothing else writes it. Turned out the logger had been quietly wiping the coach's notes on every set I logged — the doc described the rule while the code broke it. Fixed it by revoking the column permissions in Postgres, so the database now refuses the write. Comments don't enforce anything.

TechCrunch ran a piece this week on Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, and my first thought was that this looks desperate. Apple is alleging trade secret theft reaching all the way to OpenAI's chief hardware officer, and 400-plus former Apple employees now work there. OpenAI is reportedly heading toward an IPO, so the timing isn't ideal but not the main story.. Here is what I actually think. A…

TechCrunch reported this week that Databricks just hit a $188 billion valuation. Big Number. But the more interesting part is how they got there just by rebuilding their identity as an AI company. Sitting on the best data infrastructure is going to be as valuable as the flashy AI models. Power, Compute and Data are the resources that AI needs. @DIG-IN we are building that foundational layer…

Taco Bell had a food safety outbreak. Restaurant Dive covered the story, and the Placer.ai mobility data behind it is worth paying attention to. Visits dropped at Taco Bell, obviously. But they also dropped at Sweetgreen, Chopt, and Panera restaurants that had nothing to do with the outbreak. Consumer fear spread across the whole salad category almost overnight. We work with food-service data…

Patreon just stopped politely asking AI bots not to scrape their creators' content and started actually blocking them, working with Cloudflare to enforce it. TechCrunch covered it yesterday. robots.txt was always an honour system. It asked nicely. And bots training on content without permission were never particularly interested in playing nice. So now platforms are picking up tools that…

Moonshot AI just dropped Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open model ever shipped. It benchmarks close to Opus 4.8 quality at roughly Sonnet pricing, and open weights land on July 27. Since Fable 5 came back, the pace of releases has been genuinely insane. Everyone is punching up. And Kimi just connected. I caught the breakdown in the Latent Space newsletter and my reaction was…

If every meeting, watercooler chat, and date now gets transcribed and summarized by AI, who's actually reading any of it? Whilst transitioning to an AI-native company, and our agents talk to each other through Slack channels. My CTO and I sometimes check the thread and realise we are not speaking directly to each other but passing our agents messages directly to each other. We have to stop and…

His warning, via TechCrunch: the big AI labs selling proprietary models might be acting as Trojan horses. Build on their stack, and at some point you discover your vendor has quietly become your landlord. The uncomfortable truth is that most of us building with AI right now are making exactly this trade. We pick the best tool available, move fast, and tell ourselves we'll sort out the…

We put clients, the business team and the AI team in one Slack channel. The request, the build, the verification and the record all live in the same thread. The speed didn't come from writing code faster — it came from closing the gap between someone asking for something and someone understanding it precisely enough to start.

@Lyzr just raised $100 million, and their AI agent ran the fundraise. TechCrunch covered it. The product demo and the pitch were the same thing. No slide deck selling you on what the agent could do. The agent just ran the deal, managed the process, and closed the round. That's the cleanest proof of concept I've ever seen. The bar for "does this actually work" just got raised…

Samsung Health is apparently telling users: opt out of AI training and we'll delete your health data. Nice ... that's a hostage note. So..if you share your most personal data, sleep, heart rate, workouts, all of it, and in return you get something useful. The moment you say "actually, I'd rather you didn't train models on that," they threaten to delete all of it. The second users feel…

I know this is old news already but it's very cool. Anthropic built a tool that lets them watch Claude think in real time. MIT Technology Review covered it this week — the tool is called the Jacobian lens and it gives researchers the clearest view yet of what's happening inside the model while it's reasoning, not just the output it produces. Their own description of what they found: "mundane…

I used Claude to map our entire marketing content system with AI. Every tool, every domain, every repo and interface, the inventory came back complete. Clean. Accounted for. Winning ! Although technically everything was accounted for I almost missed a whole business. Every component was there, but how the team actually uses the tool was not. So we are building an agent to help capture team…

He was tracing the concept of the "Directly Responsible Individual" — Apple's term for the person ultimately accountable when a project succeeds or fails. His argument: an AI agent can never be that person. Machines can't take accountability the way humans can. He even dug up an IBM training slide from 1979 that said it plainly, that a computer must never make a management decision. I build…

Noam Segal just published his 2026 annual AI sentiment survey via Lenny's newsletter. The headline: tech workers are splitting in half. Half are thriving, half are struggling, and burnout just hit a record high. I'm not surprised, but I think the reason is a bit different from what people assume. You are expected to do more now because you can - It's not that AI is hard to use. It's that AI…

Spent the session sure the mail feature was broken. It wasnt — the pipeline was healthy, no mail had simply arrived in weeks because the forwarding was never set up. The fix was making nothing is coming in visible instead of silent. Half of it is broken is really I cant see why it is quiet.

TechCrunch interviewed Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, and his take is that companies are done renting AI from the big providers. They want to own it. The platform is now used by roughly half the Fortune 500, so this isn't fringe thinking. I've been drilling this angle for a few days now, and it makes complete sense from where I'm sitting. For anyone still in renting mode, which includes me on…

The Verge ran a piece this week. Apple's self-driving car program, the one that died without ever producing a car, is apparently the reason Apple Silicon is so fast at AI processing today. The short version is that Apple realised early on that a self-driving car needs serious on-device AI compute. They built chip architecture around that problem. The car never shipped. But the thinking didn't…

Fidji Simo just stepped down as OpenAI's number two. Her medical leave ran longer than expected, according to TechCrunch. The timing is a challenge. OpenAI is eyeing an IPO, Anthropic is closing in on enterprise, and now there's a gap at the top right when you'd want your leadership tight. But I think it's a strong leadership move to step back, take care of yourself and make sure the best…

TechCrunch just revisited the AI ROI debate, and the number is now $3 trillion. Can the technology actually pay back what's being spent on it? The bills haven't landed yet, and what will we do when they arrive? Right now the compute subsidies are real. The frontier labs are burning capital to win market share, which means I am getting access to genuinely powerful AI at prices that don't…

A Brown University professor suspected his students were using AI to complete their coursework. So he scrapped the usual assignments and ran an in-person final instead. Scores dropped 50%. He's calling it "a failed society." Ars Technica covered it this week. That number deserves more than a hot take. This isn't really about academic dishonesty. Students have always found shortcuts. What's…

SpaceXAI just launched Grok 4.5 — their first Opus-class model since the Cursor acquisition. Caught this via Latent Space. No one on the frontier is moving at this pace right now. They bought arguably the most widely used coding tool in the ecosystem, and almost immediately shipped their most capable model. You'd have to work hard not to see where they're going. For people building with AI…

Sifted is reporting that Lovable is in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2B valuation, making it one of the most valuable AI companies in Europe. I haven't actually used it, but that number stopped me. Because I spend a lot of my time working directly with Claude, building tools and automations for my own businesses. And I keep asking myself: what does Lovable give you that a direct Anthropic…

You can ship a full website in a day now. The bigger unlock is quieter: getting everyone to agree got cheap too. Here's what that changed, and the stack of expensive lessons it took to see it.

Getting close to your own voice is impossible. Writing on behalf of a human vs writing on behalf of a brand is hard to dial in. What I need to build next: not a resemblance of my persona, but a persona in general that I would like and people would enjoy reading. It is never gonna feel like me. But maybe it could feel like someone I like.

The daily capture reuses a saved session and never sees a login screen — that part runs clean. But logging in once through an automated browser was the one step X's bot detection was waiting for. The lesson that stuck: the automation you can see is the automation that gets caught. Real browser for the human step, automation only where it's invisible.

The headline everyone ran with in May was "consumers are pulling back on dining." Restaurant traffic is down, people are tightening their belts, the usual story. Except when you actually look at the split, that narrative falls apart. Placer.ai data picked up a 4.4% drop in quick-service restaurant traffic in May, the worst month of 2026 so far, with short visits — the bread and butter of fast…

I was building out a new skill last week, half-distracted because Fable 5 had just dropped and I wasn't giving it my full attention. So I wrote a deliberately loose brief. The model is good enough to handle ambiguity, I told myself, and it did deliver something. Technically correct. Just not what I actually wanted — it captured the wrong kind of learnings entirely, the kind you can pull from a…

We had everything technically listed. All tools, domains, repos and working interfaces. But we completely missed the area that was consuming most bandwidth. We aren't lacking technical components. We almost missed a whole business because AI told us the problems of what it could see, not what was happening amongst the team.

I watched Michia Rohrssen's server go down two hours before his demo to the Supercell board. He'd spent the final week of a nine-week gaming accelerator in Tokyo sprinting to finish a language-learning RPG, running playtests with real users, shipping features, cutting a trailer. Then a Railway.com outage. Two hours out. Helsinki waiting. He fixed it. Got on the plane. Presented. Users who…

Building fast across a lot of fronts meant I had to spend a lot of time bringing everything back into alignment. I assumed a strong cross memory function would cover me but AI takes shortcuts as well so make sure you point back to the source always. This is now a rule when I build.

I edited a post today and published it. LinkedIn got the AI's version. My edit lived only in the browser — every path from approve to publish carried the machine's words, not mine. The lesson: in a human-plus-AI pipeline, the human's edit can't depend on remembering to press Save. It has to be impossible to lose.

I was a bit lazy in explaining because of how good Fable 5 is, so it delivered — but it's not what I really wanted. Bonus: I kept what it built, but had to spend a little time explaining, which was the same amount of time I could have spent to start with, less the spend on the token roundabout.

Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail made an argument I haven't been able to shake. They say AI agents have broken the 100-year-old reason companies exist in the first place. The theory goes back to Ronald Coase — firms grew because coordinating work internally was cheaper than going to the open market. Big org, stable costs, manageable friction. But when an agent can coordinate work faster and…

Jack Roberts mapped out 7 levels of AI agent maturity this week, starting from "just downloaded the tool" and ending at a fully integrated AI operating system running your business. I watched it and started placing myself on the ladder. Somewhere around level 4, I thought. Maybe 5. Honest reflection: probably 2. The thing nobody warns you about when you start spinning up agents is that the…

The cron that alerts me when things break had itself been broken since mid-June — and a dead alarm is silent by definition. The fix took ten minutes; the lesson is permanent: the monitoring layer needs its own heartbeat, because it cannot report its own death.

Over one weekend my personal site grew a gated cockpit and every project I run started filing its own status signals — ships, metrics, articles. The only steps still done by hand are the two that should be: deciding what ships, and approving what goes public.

The content engine now critiques its own work before it reaches me. When I first built this, the flow was simple: agent writes, draft comes to me. Every draft had the same problem. It was technically fine and completely wrong. Right words, wrong rhythm. The facts were there but the voice wasn't. So I added a second pass. After the agent writes, it reads its own output against a set of voice…

We just moved our content scheduler off a third-party cloud service and onto our own server. That's it. That's the update. Sounds like a footnote. But here's what I've learned building automation that runs while I sleep: Every external dependency is a quiet risk. Not a dramatic one. Not "the whole thing blows up at 3am" risk. More like... things just stop. A service has a blip. A free tier…

What do you get if you combine deep curiosity, high intellect and a passion for exploring the edges of what life has to offer. You get a bushwhacking, award winning, thrill seeking accountant who identifies as a wildlife photographer. Stuart Hancock excels in the boardroom, the other side of a camera lens or circling a cumulonimbus cloud hanging from a paraglider. He is also my brother and…

Welcome to episode 15 of Steve's Show! I have the pleasure of chatting with Nicole Vignola, a neuroscientist and organisational consultant. Nicole's incredible knowledge and down-to-earth nature made for an enlightening conversation. She has a unique talent for explaining complex neuroscience in an easy-to-understand manner, making it accessible to all. In this episode, we explore the…

Welcome to Steve's Show, where we dive deep into the realms of entrepreneurship, leadership, and the transformative decisions that shape high-performance lives. Today, we're stepping into the world of design, where form meets function, and imagination becomes reality. Joining us is the remarkable Idalina Silva Grech-Cumbo, an award-winning Interior Architect and Hospitality Specialist whose work…

I recently read a book. It made me stop and think about the life I am living and am I really challenging my personal discovery. "How to live" by Kunal Gupta is a great look at someone who seeks the very edge or personal development and rides deep into the opportunity frontier. Join me as I catch up with an extraordinary individual, a maestro in the art of leadership and business—Kunal Gupta…

I have no idea what my professional brand is. Being a nice guy is at the top of my lists of what I want. Somewhere in that I also want to be seen as a competent and dependable business person.  If you have an idea of who you are professionally and are trying to portray an authentic version of yourself online you should listen to Gabriele.  I had the pleasure of hosting the brilliant Gabriele…

Welcome to another episode of "Stevens Show," where we dive into the lives of down-to-earth entrepreneurs with a penchant for embracing life's challenges. Today's guest is no exception – meet Manuel Mendes, the visionary founder of Rebel.Online and Labalabs. Manuel's journey transcends his age, with a passion for eCommerce, surfing, and self-development that has taken him across the globe. But…

Hey there, podcast fam! Welcome back to Steve's show, where we dive deep into the stories of extraordinary folks who've taken life-altering leaps, and today, we've got a real gem for you. Meet Rose Radford, the powerhouse who left her high-profile gig at McKinsey to chase a different dream. Rose, an award-winning CEO and the genius behind the Millionaire Girl Next Door, is the star of our show…

Get ready to be inspired and motivated as we welcome our next guest on the podcast, Nuno Fernandes, the extraordinary CEO of Zomato Portugal. If you're looking for someone who knows how to tackle hard challenges head-on and raise the bar for hard work, Nuno is the epitome of dedication and resilience. Over the past three years, Nuno has fearlessly taken on the task of transforming a legacy…

Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Hey there, fellow podcast enthusiasts! Welcome back to another captivating episode of the "Stevens Show." We have a truly extraordinary guest, Rupert Barksfield, whose journey through the world of entrepreneurship is nothing short of inspiring. Dive into an Incredible Backstory: Rupert's entrepreneurial spirit runs deep in his veins, inherited from his…

Episode Summary: In this episode of "Steven's Show," host Steven welcomes Jennifer K. Hill, an entrepreneur and speaker with a story that embodies the resilience and determination needed to succeed. Here are the five main takeaways from this inspiring conversation: 1. Embrace Failure as a Teacher: Jennifer's journey from academic challenges to entrepreneurship teaches us that failure isn't a…

Welcome back to the Podcast Stevens Show! I'm your host, Steven, and today we have a special episode in store for you. We're revisiting one of our most popular and insightful guests, Dr. Miguel Damas, a renowned biohacking MD who has shared his expertise on a range of topics that have left our listeners hungry for more. In our previous episode with Dr. Miguel Damas, we uncovered the secrets of…

Tim Vieira. I am a huge fan of this man. His name is part of the foundation of movers and shakers in Portugal. Tim sets his sights on the presidency of Portugal, he's on a mission to forge a dynamic connection between government and the private sector, bringing a fresh perspective and a wealth of experience to the table. Tim's journey is a testament to the power of innovation…

This guy is epic. I was immersed in innovation and entrepreneurship and left the conversation thinking, I could be doing way more. I need to get my shit together. Joao is a true visionary shaking up the game. He started a business with $1000.00 and used Chat GPT as his CEO and raised $100.000 dollars in under 75 days. With a career spanning over a decade in startups, João's journey has been…

This captivating episode that's all about the journey from humble beginnings to becoming a driving force in the tech world. I'm thrilled to introduce our next guest, Ricardo Araujo. In a conversation that's both enlightening and down-to-earth, Ricardo shares his remarkable journey – from his roots as a sports teacher to his current role as a community builder for some of the biggest tech…

Welcome, dear listeners, to Episode 4 of our riveting series, "Steve's Show"! Today, we have the honor of introducing you to an extraordinary individual whose journey is nothing short of inspiring. Meet Rezaan Daniels, the visionary force behind the groundbreaking company https://finvex.tech. Hailing from the vibrant landscapes of South Africa, Rezaan's story is a testament to the…

Welcome to Episode 3 of "Steve's Show"! In this exciting installment, your host, Steve, invites a truly exceptional guest to the microphone – Sebastião Teixeira. If you're wondering what happens when creativity, business acumen, and an insatiable thirst for knowledge collide, then this is the episode for you! Join Steve and Sebastião as they embark on an engaging and enlightening conversation…

Get ready to prioritize your health and discover the power of building great health habits with our special guests on the podcast, Indre Kaikare and Dr. Miguel Damas. In times of uncertainty, it's crucial to remember that health should always take precedence. Both Indre and Dr. Miguel are not only pioneers in their respective industries but also advocates for cultivating discipline and…

Hey there, listeners! Welcome to "Stevens Show". I'm your host, Steven Murray, and I'm thrilled to have you join me on this transformative journey towards a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled existence. A Little About Me: I've been around the block a few times and am sure to go around a few more times. From humble beginnings, I took my first job for the invaluable learning it offered, even…