01The lead
Agent First Development is The Future
Cloudflare's CEO predicted bots would outnumber humans online by 2027. It happened a year early—your product probably isn't ready.
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02Dispatch
The Iran War Is Not Really About Iran
The US strike on Iran isn't really about Iran — it's a message aimed at Beijing. China buys 90–95% of Iran's oil, and a destabilized Iranian regime puts that lifeline at risk, which is exactly the kind of leverage Washington wants as Taiwan tensions grow.
03Dispatch
OpenAI's Pentagon Deal and the Red Lines Problem: Who Actually Decides What AI Does in War?
OpenAI just signed a Pentagon deal while the US military was already running Claude — the AI it had officially blacklisted — on live operations against Iran. That sequence reveals something uncomfortable: the ethical debate about AI in warfare isn't happening before these decisions get made, it's happening after. So who actually controls what these systems will and won't do?
04Dispatch
Should AI Agents be Friends?
Large-scale research reveals AI agents simulate social behavior rather than genuinely socialize, challenging viral narratives about machine culture and friendships. But the real question is not whether AI agents can be social, it's whether they should be social.
05Dispatch
From Copilot to Colleague: The Five Pillars of an Agentic AI Strategy That Actually Holds Up
Most enterprises are either drowning in AI agents nobody fully controls, or still stuck in the same copilot pilot they launched 18 months ago. Both mistakes share a root cause: copilot-era thinking applied to an agentic-era problem. These five pillars show exactly where that thinking breaks down—and what a sound agentic strategy looks like instead.
06Dispatch
The Hyper Learner
Every five months, the training compute behind leading AI models doubles — faster than Moore's Law ever moved. For tech leaders, that means the skill you mastered last year is already aging, and the workflow you built around last quarter's best model may already have a better replacement. Here's how one CTO restructured nearly every spare hour of his day to keep up.
07Dispatch
GitHub's Agentic Workflows and the Coming 'Continuous AI' Era: What It Means for Solo Founders
GitHub just gave 180 million developers autonomous AI agents that work while they sleep—no setup, no new infrastructure, just a Markdown file in your repo. I've been testing agentic workflows for months, and here is what you need to know.
08Dispatch
How I 10x'd My AI Coding Productivity (And You Can Too)
Want to be a 10x better vibe code? Discover the workflow that 10x'd AI coding productivity, plus get a free open source framework to automate your workflow.