Author: Jackie Chen

Agents Are Becoming the Front Door. Nobody Has Built the Door Yet.


Three things I’ve been watching, and what the public record actually says about each. 1. The assistant is becoming a distribution channel Companies are starting to treat Claude and ChatGPT the way they once treated the App Store: a place where customers arrive, not just a place where their product gets described. Canva is the … Continue reading Agents Are Becoming the Front Door. Nobody Has Built the Door Yet. →

Anthropic Threw Away Git. What Broke First Is the Part I Can’t Stop Thinking About.


Anthropic built its own version control system in five months with seven people and migrated its monorepo off git. The interesting part is not Scion – it is the diagnosis underneath it: git's cost model is priced for an offline client that no longer exists in an agent-driven fleet.

The AI Intelligence Report (October 9–16, 2026) — The Week Safety Caught Up With the Frontier


Edition: October 9–16, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the two halves of the AI story stopped pretending they were separate. On one side, the frontier kept sprinting: Google shipped Gemini 4 Argon to paid API and Pro/Ultra users, Meta put its first frontier-class models and an open-weight sibling on … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (October 9–16, 2026) — The Week Safety Caught Up With the Frontier →

The AI Intelligence Report (October 2–9, 2026) — When the Money Got Nervous and the Models Kept Coming


Edition: October 2–9, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes Editorial note: Two stories ran side by side this week and did not agree with each other. On the capital side, a single Financial Times report that OpenAI's annualized revenue was roughly $20 billion below the figures circulating among investors was enough to drag Oracle … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (October 2–9, 2026) — When the Money Got Nervous and the Models Kept Coming →