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I Gave an AI Agent a Budget, a Business, and a Curfew
Special edition: the skill library and the autonomous lab it built — Agent Skills and Astra Lab, both live this week
Sep 6
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John Mann
The 40% Club
Gartner says most agentic AI projects will fail by 2027. I've seen this movie before, and I know exactly who's holding the remote.
Sep 5
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John Mann
The outage that stop the world
AI is still a computer and has some issues too.
Sep 4
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John Mann
August 2026
The Delivery Illusion
We’re generating more code than ever and shipping less of it. I almost missed it too.
Aug 28
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John Mann
Consultants Have All the Answers. They Just Won't Give You the Code.
Great, you have a 40-slide report on exactly how much your company sucks. Now what?
Aug 21
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John Mann
Slowing down to hurry up
A recurring theme for me recently.
Aug 18
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John Mann
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My new favorite music artist!
And yes, he is AI generated.
Aug 16
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John Mann
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Don’t Start the Work
Sometimes moving fast means knowing when not to move.
Aug 14
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John Mann
1,200 AI Employees Just Asked the Government to Make Them Stop
When your fiercest competitor agrees to slow down with you, that’s not ethics. That’s exhaustion wearing a lab coat.
Aug 2
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John Mann
July 2026
AI Just Escaped the Engineering Org
And nobody in engineering is talking about it, because it means we’re not special anymore.
Jul 25
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John Mann
Nobody Owns the Agent
We hired thousands of autonomous coworkers this year and never gave a single one a manager.
Jul 19
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John Mann
The Invisible Tax
Your AI coding tool didn’t save you time. It just moved the bill to a different line item.
Jul 12
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John Mann
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