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By Nate B. Jones

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Daily AI strategy and news for the AI curious, builders & executives. I'm Nate B. Jones, a 20-year product leader, AI strategist, and your guide through the noise. Most AI content is hype or generic advice. I cut through both with frameworks and workflows you can use immediately. Whether you're an executive making AI decisions or a builder implementing solutions, you'll get practical guidance, tested in real organizations. New videos every day on YouTube. Deeper analysis + exclusive playbooks → https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

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Episode Date
Enterprise AI Agent Platforms: 8 Questions to Ask Vendors
Nov 01, 2026
Websites Are Blocking AI Agents. Pick One That Gets Through Meta
Oct 31, 2026
Anthropic IPO S-1: Customer Growth, Margins, and Compute Meta
Oct 28, 2026
AI Agent Overload: Cut the Noise in Codex and Claude
Oct 27, 2026
SaaS Pricing Won't Tell You Your AI ROI
Oct 25, 2026
AI Agents and Cybersecurity: What Changed and What to Do
Oct 24, 2026
What Is Mechanistic Interpretability? AI Neurons Explained
Oct 22, 2026
Computer for AI Agents: What to Check Before You Buy
Oct 20, 2026
AI Agent Swarms: Keep Control When Agents Hand Off Work
Oct 18, 2026
Reverse Engineer Anything (REA): 5 Places to Point Your AI
Oct 15, 2026
Narrow Superintelligence: Why AI Strengths May Not Transfer
Oct 13, 2026
5 Human Skills AI Makes More Valuable and How to Build Them
Oct 11, 2026
Google's Spirit Airlines Bid: Work Data for AI Training
Oct 08, 2026
Gemini 4 Argon and the Benchmark That Matters: Customers
Oct 07, 2026
How AI agents are changing the way you buy software
Oct 04, 2026
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, ChatGPT Space, and GPT-6.1 Sol
Oct 03, 2026
Microsoft's Autopilot Agent: 5 AI Habits to Build at Work
Oct 02, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 Review: Easier to Steer, Fewer Tokens
Sep 30, 2026
An AI assistant added up my subscriptions: $5,350 a year. The prompt guide to get your own list in about 20 minutes.
Sep 29, 2026
How to Scale AI Developer Productivity Across a Team
Sep 27, 2026
NVIDIA World Models Explained: What Developers Can Build
Sep 24, 2026
AI-Native Workplace: What Real AI Adoption Asks of You
Sep 22, 2026
You cannot tell which parts of your software should stop calling an LLM. My Jev guide has a prompt that scans your projects and names them.
Sep 21, 2026
AI Cost to Serve: Which Customers You Can Now Afford
Sep 20, 2026
Stripe on Agentic Commerce: Can AI Agents Buy From You?
Sep 17, 2026
Good Enough AI: Why Apple's Case Measures the Wrong Thing
Sep 14, 2026
AI Race vs Human Flourishing: What US-China Talks Miss
Sep 13, 2026
Omarchy, the Agentic OS Built for AI Agents
Sep 11, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra: Which Model Gets Which Job
Sep 10, 2026
GPT-6 Astra: How to Research a Decision Before You Commit
Sep 07, 2026
GPT-6 Astra: What Self-Directed AI Agents Change
Sep 06, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 Effort Levels: Start on Low, Not High
Sep 04, 2026
Switching AI Providers: The Real Cost Nobody Prices
Sep 02, 2026
Apple's New Mac Line is Built Around Local AI. The Bet Is You'd Rather Own Than Rent.
Aug 31, 2026
Why AI Agents Produce Process Instead of Finished Work
Aug 30, 2026
How I Fight AI Brain Rot Without Using AI Less
Aug 28, 2026
Managing AI Agents at Scale: The Human Work Nobody Counts
Aug 26, 2026
Forward Deployed Engineer: What It Is and How to Become One
Aug 26, 2026
Stripe Paid $7.5 Billion For OpenRouter. You Are Living In The Age Of Startups.
Aug 24, 2026
GLM-5.3 Setup in Claude Code and Codex: Cut Your Bill
Aug 21, 2026
One Cancelled Gym Class. That's How Agent Swarm Attacks Start.
Aug 17, 2026
Nvidia's $500B AI Financing Plan: Bubble or Buildout?
Aug 16, 2026
Grok Bot Review: Is the $200 AI Agent Team Worth It?
Aug 14, 2026
AI Agent Context Files: How to Steer Long Projects
Aug 12, 2026
Anthropic's Model Attacked Two Strangers On GitHub. Nobody Asked It To.
Aug 11, 2026
AI Rollout Resistance: 3 Things Leaders Owe Engineers
Aug 09, 2026
AI Agent False Success: 3 Checks Before You Trust Done
Aug 07, 2026
What AI Slop Actually Costs, and Who Ends Up Paying
Aug 05, 2026
Why AI Bets Fail: Leverage, Timing, and Runway
Aug 04, 2026
The 5 Levels of AI Building: Where You Actually Sit
Aug 02, 2026
Agent Skills: How to Test One Before You Keep It
Aug 01, 2026
I Built The Token Saver Skill To Cut My Token Use By 90%. Here Is What It Can And Cannot Do For You.
Jul 29, 2026
Stop guessing whether a cheaper model can do the job.
Jul 27, 2026
Find a Real Job for Your First AI Agent.
Jul 26, 2026
Strip Sensitive Files So AI Never Sees the Private Parts
Jul 25, 2026
OpenAI's model escaped its own cyber test and broke into Hugging Face
Jul 23, 2026
AI Detection Can't Measure Meaning: What It Actually Sees
Jul 22, 2026
Kimi K3: China's Open AI Model and the Real Cost to Run It
Jul 20, 2026
How to Use AI on Work You Can't Upload - Offline & Local
Jul 19, 2026
I asked Fable and Codex what to automate. They disagreed.
Jul 17, 2026
The AI Harness Audit: Clean Your Setup Before You Upgrade
Jul 15, 2026
Pick an AI Model That Fits How You Actually Work
Jul 13, 2026
AI-Native Companies Run on Code: 15 Rules for Operators
Jul 12, 2026
Agent-Shaped Work: When to Use AI Agents (and When Not To)
Jul 10, 2026
How to Trust AI Agents: Verify the Work, Not the Model
Jul 08, 2026
Model Routing Is Table Stakes. Here's the Real AI Edge
Jul 05, 2026
One Reusable AI Agent for Insurance, Taxes, and More
Jul 03, 2026
Which AI Model to Use for Any Task Without Overpaying
Jul 02, 2026
How to Build Your Own AI Memory With Claude or Codex
Jul 01, 2026
The AI Race Is Now About Context, Not Models
Jun 29, 2026
GLM-5.2 Is Cheaper Than Claude. Why You Still Can't Switch
Jun 28, 2026
Make Your AI Agents Hand Off Work Without You
Jun 26, 2026
Beyond Prompting: Building Loops That Carry the Load
Jun 24, 2026
Claude Fable 5: The Skill for Handing AI Whole Jobs
Jun 23, 2026
Why Anthropic Actually Won the Month (Yes, Really)
Jun 22, 2026
Every AI Agent Needs an Owner
Jun 21, 2026
Why Claude Skills Don't Travel to Codex (and How to Fix It)
Jun 19, 2026
The Harness Is the Business: Inside the OpenAI and Anthropic IPO Bet
Jun 15, 2026
OpenAI IPO: Own the Harness, Not the Model
Jun 14, 2026
Codex Guide for Non-Coders: Catch Up in One Weekend
Jun 12, 2026
Claude Code vs Codex: Steer or Dispatch Your AI Agents
Jun 10, 2026
Build a Token Burn Dashboard to Track What Your AI Actually Does
Jun 05, 2026
Opus 4.8 Won Our Benchmark. I Still Wouldn't Use It For Everything.
Jun 03, 2026
Prove Your Value at Work in the AI Era: Judgment Artifacts
May 31, 2026
How I AI: My Weekly Codex Experiments
May 30, 2026
Product Management When Software Creation Is Cheap
May 29, 2026
Agent Product Analytics: What Your Dashboard Can't See
May 28, 2026
How to verify AI-generated Office files before they ship
May 27, 2026
Public AI Work: How Teams Actually Learn From AI
May 26, 2026
AI Agents Create a Hidden Platform Team Bottleneck
May 25, 2026
Why Big Tech Now Runs an AI Factory
May 24, 2026
AI Project Room: Organize Files Before Asking AI to Write
May 22, 2026
MIT Says Half Your AI Gains Come From How You Ask. Not the Model.
May 21, 2026
I Asked Seven Questions About Our AI Agent. We Failed Five.
May 20, 2026
Six protocols emerged. Three decide which agents survive.
May 19, 2026
Marketing for Humans and AI Agents in 2026
May 18, 2026
AI Build Buy Hire Wait Decision Matrix for Teams
May 17, 2026
Claude Recovered $400K in Bitcoin. That's Not Even the Big Story.
May 16, 2026
SaaS Agent Licensing: What Your 2026 Renewal Will Look Like
May 15, 2026
The Enterprise AI Deployment Layer: Why Model Access Isn't Enough
May 14, 2026
RAG for AI Agents: Knowledge Layer Architecture Guide
May 13, 2026
Agentic Commerce Is A Protocol War. Here's Who's Fighting.
May 12, 2026
Your AI Agent Doesn't Need A Better Prompt. It Needs A Judge.
May 11, 2026
Enterprise AI Buying Process: Why Roadmaps Fail in the Build Room
May 10, 2026
Codex Plugins: Why the AI Bottleneck Moved to Workflow
May 09, 2026
271 Vulnerabilities: What Mozilla's AI Found Changes Everything
May 08, 2026
Your AI Agent Is Locked To One Model. OpenClaw Just Killed That.
May 07, 2026
Your AI Fails At Real Work. The Model Isn't Why.
May 06, 2026
Consumer AI Has a Problem Nobody's Naming
May 05, 2026
AI's 'Thin Ice' Moment: Is Your Job Already Gone?"
May 04, 2026
Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft, Meta. All Building The Same Thing.
May 03, 2026
I Found 5 Things Your Agent Needs From Your Tools. Most Don't Have Them.
May 02, 2026
The Buying Rule for Your Personal AI Computer (and how to skip the $5,000 mistake)
May 01, 2026
What to Do When Your Company's AI Tool Is Bad at Your Job
Apr 30, 2026
Salesforce Killed The Browser. Every Agent Runs Your CRM Now.
Apr 30, 2026
GPT-5.5 vs Claude vs Gemini: The Real Difference Nobody's Talking About
Apr 28, 2026
OpenAI Just Gave Every Team a Free Employee. Here's the Catch.
Apr 27, 2026
Apple Just Positioned Itself for the Next Trillion Dollars
Apr 27, 2026
Your Design Workflow Has Three Steps. ChatGPT Just Made It One.
Apr 25, 2026
Claude Design Just Killed the Mockup. Is Your Team Next?
Apr 24, 2026
Your Apps Don't Need an API Anymore. Codex Just Proved It.
Apr 23, 2026
Karpathy's Wiki vs. Open Brain. One Fails When You Need It Most.
Apr 23, 2026
Your Prompts Didn't Change. Opus 4.7 Did.
Apr 21, 2026
Nobody Knows What You're Worth Anymore | The AI Job Market Reality
Apr 20, 2026
Block Laid Off Half Its Company for AI. AI Can't Do the Job.
Apr 19, 2026
Karpathy's Agent Ran 700 Experiments While He Slept. It's Coming For You.
Apr 19, 2026
Anthropic And OpenAI Are Fighting Over Your Memory. You're Going To Lose.
Apr 17, 2026
Your AI Is 50x Faster. You're Getting 2x. You're Fixing the Wrong Thing.
Apr 16, 2026
The Real Problem With AI Agents Nobody's Talking About
Apr 15, 2026
3 Model Drops. $15M/Day in Burn. One Product Dead. Nobody Connected Them.
Apr 14, 2026
I Looked At Amazon After They Fired 16,000 Engineers. Their AI Broke Everything.
Apr 13, 2026
I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall.
Apr 12, 2026
Google's New Quantization is a Game Changer
Apr 11, 2026
There Are Only 5 Safe Places to Build in AI Right Now. Are You in One?
Apr 10, 2026
Nasdaq Quietly Changed Its Rules. Now Your 401(k) Pays for SpaceX's IPO.
Apr 09, 2026
I Analyzed 512,000 Lines of Leaked Code. It Shows What's Coming for Your AI Tools.
Apr 09, 2026
A Polymarket Bot Made $438,000 In 30 Days. Your Industry Is Next. Here's What To Do About It.
Apr 07, 2026
You're Building AI Agents on Layers That Won't Exist in 18 Months. (What this Means for You)
Apr 06, 2026
Your Agent Produces at 100x. Your Org Reviews at 3x. That's the Problem.
Apr 06, 2026
Wall Street Just Bet $285 Billion on AI Agents. The Best One Barely Works.
Apr 04, 2026
I Broke Down Anthropic's $2.5 Billion Leak. Your Agent Is Missing 12 Critical Pieces.
Apr 03, 2026
Your Claude Limit Burns In 90 Minutes Because Of One ChatGPT Habit.
Apr 02, 2026
Claude Mythos Changes Everything. Your AI Stack Isn't Ready.
Apr 01, 2026
Your iPhone Is About to Control Every AI App You Use. Here's What This Means For You.
Mar 31, 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft Just Agreed on One File Format. It Changes Everything.
Mar 30, 2026
48 Days. That's How Long Before the Helium Runs Out for AI Chips.
Mar 29, 2026
Anthropic Just Gave You 3 Tools That Work While You're Gone.
Mar 29, 2026
A Markdown File Just Replaced Your Most Expensive Design Meeting. (Google Stitch)
Mar 28, 2026
The AI Job Market Split in Two. One Side Pays $400K and Can't Hire Fast Enough.
Mar 27, 2026
Nvidia Just Open-Sourced What OpenAI Wants You to Pay Consultants For.
Mar 25, 2026
I Mapped Where Every AI Agent Actually Sits. Most People Pick Wrong.
Mar 24, 2026
McKinsey Says $1 Trillion In Sales Will Go Through AI Agents. Most Businesses Are Invisible.
Mar 22, 2026
Your AI Agent Fails 97.5% of Real Work. The Fix Isn't Coding.
Mar 21, 2026
Anthropic Just Gave Your AI Agent the One Thing OpenClaw Has. Without the Risk.
Mar 20, 2026
Perplexity Computer Is Incredible. It Won't Matter. Here's Why.
Mar 19, 2026
ChatGPT Health Identified Respiratory Failure. Then It Said Wait.
Mar 18, 2026
Your Browser Does the Same 10 Things Every Week. Claude Can Do 5 of Them Now.
Mar 17, 2026
Claude Code Wiped 2.5 Years of Data. The Engineer Who Built It Couldn't Stop It.
Mar 16, 2026
She quit, picked up AI, and shipped in 30 days what her team planned for Q3.
Mar 15, 2026
AI Made Every Company 10x More Productive. The Ones Cutting Headcount Are Telling on Themselves.
Mar 15, 2026
One Simple System Gave All My AI Tools a Memory. Here's How.
Mar 14, 2026
4 AI Labs Built the Same System Without Talking to Each Other (And Nobody's Discussing Why)
Mar 12, 2026
Stop accepting AI output that "looks right." The other 17% is everything and nobody is ready for it.
Mar 11, 2026
Claude Blackmailed Its Developers. Here's Why the System Hasn't Collapsed Yet.
Mar 10, 2026
45 People, $200M Revenue. The Question Nobody's Asking About AI and Your Team Size.
Mar 08, 2026
GPT-5.4 Let Mickey Mouse Into a Production Database. Nobody Noticed. (What This Means For Your Work)
Mar 08, 2026
Claude Code vs Codex: The Decision That Compounds Every Week You Delay
Mar 06, 2026
Everyone You Know Is About to Try Claude (I Showed 3 People for 5 Minutes — All 3 Switched)
Mar 04, 2026
Dario Amodei Made One Mistake. Sam Altman Got $110 Billion. Here's the Full Story.
Mar 04, 2026
You Don't Need SaaS. The $0.10 System That Replaced My AI Workflow (45 Min No-Code Build)
Mar 02, 2026
Karpathy vs. McKinsey: The Truth About AI Agents (Software 3.0)
Feb 24, 2026
What Good is a Degree When AI Knows Everything? What A Post-Knowledge AI Economy Looks Like
Feb 24, 2026
RAG: The $40B AI Technique 80% of Enterpises Use—Finally Explained
Feb 24, 2026
We're Getting AI Agents Backwards—Simulation Wins
Feb 24, 2026
AI's 4 Power Shifts: Where the Best Tech Jobs Will Emerge in 2026
Feb 24, 2026
The $200 AI That's Too Smart to Use (GPT-5 Pro Paradox Explained)
Feb 24, 2026
NEW: Claude's 'Super Prompts' Will Save You DAYS of Work (Full Tutorial + Demo)
Feb 24, 2026
The Dirty Secret Behind Amazon's 30,000 Cuts: Nvidia
Feb 24, 2026
The Mental Models of Master Prompters: 10 Techniques for Advanced Prompting
Feb 24, 2026
How I Improved AI Output Quality 10X With One Prompting Shift
Feb 24, 2026
Inside Anthropic's Detection of an AI-Run Cyberattack on 30 High Value Global Targets
Feb 24, 2026
The Real Difference Between Gemini 3 and ChatGPT 5.1—Context vs. Task
Feb 24, 2026
Al Agents That Actually Work: The Pattern Anthropic Just Revealed
Feb 24, 2026
Why AI-Native Companies Are Deleting Software You're Still Paying For (The $56K Lesson)
Feb 24, 2026
The 4 AI Agents Non-Technical People Actually Need (And How to Use Them Today)
Feb 24, 2026
Claude Code Snuck in 7 Updates in 2 Weeks—Here's What You Need to Know in 10 Minutes
Feb 24, 2026
If This Can Happen to an Ex-DeepMind Leader, It Can Happen to You
Feb 24, 2026
The Nvidia-Groq Deal Is WAY Bigger Than Reported (3 Things the Headlines Missed)
Feb 24, 2026
The Skill Gap That Will Separate AI Winners from Everyone Else
Feb 24, 2026
The Compounding Gap That Makes 2026 the Last Chance to Catch Up
Feb 24, 2026
Why Andrej Karpathy Feels "Behind" (And What It Means for Your Career)
Feb 24, 2026
Why 2026 Is the Year to Build a Second Brain (And Why You NEED One)
Feb 24, 2026
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Agree on One Thing (Finally) - This Week's Biggest AI Stories
Feb 24, 2026
The 3-Layer Framework That Predicts Which Jobs AI Will (and Won't) Replace
Feb 24, 2026
What Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Disagree About (And Why It Matters for You)
Feb 24, 2026
Shopify's AI Memo Changed Hiring Forever—And Why Google, Meta & Nvidia Are Copying It
Feb 24, 2026
Task Queues Are Replacing Chat Interfaces. Here's Why (plus a Claude Cowork Demo)
Feb 24, 2026
THIS is Why You're Still Slow Even With AI (The Bottleneck Moved--Here's What to Do About It)
Feb 24, 2026
Stop Competing With 400 Applicants. Build This in One Weekend (Yes, there's a no code option too!)
Feb 24, 2026
They Ignored My Tool Stack and Built Something Better--The 4 Patterns That Work
Feb 24, 2026
The Skill That Separates AI Power Users From Everyone Else (Why "Clear" Specs Produce Broken Output)
Feb 24, 2026
The People Getting Promoted All Have This One Thing in Common (AI Is Supercharging this Mindset)
Feb 24, 2026
The Builders Who Figure This Out First Will Be Impossible to Catch. Why You Need an Identity Shift.
Feb 24, 2026
Why Your Best Employees Quit Using AI After 3 Weeks (And the 6 Skills That Would Have Saved Them)
Feb 24, 2026
The $125 Billion Secret: Amazon Told Wall Street One Thing and Employees Another. Here's the Truth.
Feb 24, 2026
Why the Smartest AI Bet Right Now Has Nothing to Do With AI (It's Not What You Think)
Feb 24, 2026
Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw: The 72 Hours That Broke Everything (The Full Breakdown)
Feb 24, 2026
OpenClaw Agents Are Hiring Each Other. Transferring Crypto. Building Societies. This Is Real.
Feb 24, 2026
90% of AI Users Are Getting Mediocre Output. Don't Be One of Them (Stop Prompting, Do THIS Instead)
Feb 24, 2026
Why the Smartest AI Teams Are Panic-Buying Compute: The 36-Month AI Infrastructure Crisis Is Here
Feb 24, 2026
Going Slower Feels Safer, But Your Domain Expertise Won't Save You Anymore. Here's What Will.
Feb 24, 2026
The $285 Billion Crash Wall Street Won't Explain Honestly. Here's What Everyone Missed.
Feb 24, 2026
Claude Opus 4.6: The Biggest AI Jump I've Covered. Here's What You Need to Know.
Feb 24, 2026
Most of Us Are Using AI Backwards. Here's Why.
Feb 23, 2026
OpenClaw: 160,000 Developers Are Building Something OpenAI & Google Can't Stop. Where Do You Stand?
Feb 15, 2026
OpenAI Is Slowing Hiring. Anthropic's Engineers Stopped Writing Code. Here's Why You Should Care.
Feb 05, 2026
I Built an 11-Tab Financial Model in 10 Minutes. The $20/Month Tool That's About Change How We Work.
Jan 27, 2026