AI Agents

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something shifted in AI over the past few months, and most people haven’t noticed yet. The way AI works — the fundamental unit of how you interact with it — is changing from a single question-and-answer to a continuous loop. And if you’re not paying attention, you’re going to miss the biggest upgrade to AI tools since ChatGPT launched. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been running AI agents for months, and the bill was the part that hurt the most. Not the setup, not the prompts — the raw token cost of letting a model plan, call tools, verify its own work, and loop. Agentic workflows eat tokens like a starving man at a buffet. So when Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 last week as a “cheaper way to run agents,” I had to find out if it actually changes the math. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. “A part of our NVIDIA GEAR lab now self-improves tirelessly overnight. We just read the reports in the morning.” That’s Jim Fan, director of AI at Nvidia, describing what happened when his team gave AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and — in his words — a “generous token budget.” The agents didn’t just follow instructions. They wrote their own training programs, tested them on real robots, debugged failures, and iterated until the robots could cut zip ties and insert GPUs into motherboard sockets with 99% accuracy. All while the researchers slept. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write: the next generation of AI agents might learn to navigate the real world by watching teenagers play Fortnite. A startup called General Intuition just raised $300 million, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year. The valuation sits above $2 billion. But the money is the boring part. The interesting part is the mechanism: instead of building AI that processes text, they’re building AI that understands space, time, and movement. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’re comparing Agentforce vs Microsoft Copilot, you’ve probably hit the same wall I did: every comparison reads like it was written for a company with 500 employees and a dedicated IT admin. I build things solo. I needed to know which AI agent actually works for one person (or five) without a procurement process. So I spent a month testing all three: Salesforce’s Agentforce-powered Slackbot, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini for Workspace. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last month I watched a solo founder demo his “team” to me. He had five employees — none of them human. One monitored his Stripe payments and flagged anomalies. Another triaged his inbox and drafted replies. A third scheduled his social media. A fourth tracked competitor pricing. A fifth onboards new customers. He manages all five through a single dashboard. His total cost: about $200/month. His competitors are hiring humans for the same roles at $50K+ each. That gap is going to break some industries. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve spent months testing AI agents, and nearly all of them assume you’re comfortable in a terminal. Anthropic just released something for everyone else. It’s called Cowork, it runs inside the Claude desktop app, and it can read, edit, and create files on your computer based on instructions you type in plain English. ...

I’ve watched a dozen project management tools promise “AI-powered” workflows over the past two years. Most just added a chatbot that summarizes tasks. Asana’s acquisition of StackAI for $75 million is different — they bought the actual machinery to let you build AI agents that do work across your entire software stack. If you’ve ever wanted your task manager to stop being a passive list and start acting like a teammate who updates Salesforce, pings Slack, and files tickets without you lifting a finger, this is the deal to pay attention to. ...