Steve Yegge launched GasTown on Jan 1 2026. Gas Town is basically how you can use claude code to create a team (mayor, polecat, crew, beads etc) to manage more claude codes and create more work. The whole idea is the idea of "orchestration" and beads as the
Every industry has physical infrastructure. Roads, power grids, internet cables. Without them, everything slows down or stops. What's less visible is the infrastructure that determines how freely people can experiment. The systems — or absence of systems — that decide whether someone can try a bold idea, fail safely, and
We are going to live in a human-agent co-intelligent future. If that is the case, what is the file that works for both? Word was for text. Excel for numbers. PPT for presentations. Markdown for agents and humans. John Gruber created markdown as a simple way to make text files
A Stanford economist just proved what we've been saying all along. Not with opinions. With math. Charles I. Jones, one of the world's leading growth economists, published a paper this month that should be required reading for every executive drowning in AI hype. The title: "
How Australia's food labelling system got frozen in 2014 — and why Rules as Code could fix it The Cornflakes Box You're standing in your kitchen at 7am, half-awake, pouring cornflakes into a bowl. On the front of the box: 4.0 stars. Four and a half
Last week, Nature published one of the most quietly consequential papers in AI history. The title was clinical: "Does AI already have human-level intelligence?" The conclusion was not: We have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved. Within 24 hours,
I went to bed at midnight with a problem. I needed to drop 10kg. I'd known it for months. But like every other time, the tracking fell apart the moment pressure hit. Client deadlines landed, the fitness app notifications got swiped away, and three weeks later I'
The capability gap isn't technical—it's organizational. And if you don't understand the difference between Assist, Augment, and Adapt, you're solving the wrong problem. The Real Challenge AI capability keeps climbing. That's not news anymore. What is news: organisational absorption
Three major AI breakthroughs launched in November Not last quarter. Not last year. In one week. November 17: Grok 4.1 became the most accurate language model ever tested—65% fewer hallucinations than its predecessor. November 20: Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image finally cracked the "AI can&
So this week has been big for the AI space, and I want to make sense of that for the strategic leader that is you. We're not going to talk about benchmarks or why this is cool. We're going to look at you as a strategic
We've been reading a lot of stories about AI adoption and its challenges. There's a new study every week. One claims it's not working, while another says it is. So, what's really happening? I think everything is both true and not true.