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Insights2026.10.26

AI agent hacks hit several Korean financial firms, but the breached systems were loan-broker and staff tools, not banking apps

US security firm CrowdStrike analyzed AI work logs left on an attacker's server. The attacker ran a free open-source tool on other companies' commercial AI models and tried to break into many financial firms at once. What got breached were not banking apps but work systems for loan brokers and staff with weak identity checks. Korea's Financial Services Commission told firms to review systems by whether they are open to the outside, not by whether customers use them.

Insights2026.10.23

Big employers are asking less for people who use AI and more for people who build with it

Workday reviewed 11 months of job requisitions from 554 large employers. Requirements for using AI tools fell 25% after peaking in January 2026. Requirements for building AI into work rose 51% from September 2025. The data can't tell us why demand for using AI fell.

Insights2026.10.19

Banks want lower legal fees because of AI. Law firms' billable hours went up instead

Big banks say AI has sped up legal work and want lower fees. Yet law firm billed hours rose 4.2% in the first half of 2026, more than double the usual pace. Firms are counting AI learning time toward internal targets, and clients like AT&T are moving work in-house, changing what the negotiation is about.

Insights2026.10.19

Robots can do a lot of work. They're cheaper than people for just 0.3% of it

Anthropic used Claude to go through 19,000 tasks across about 900 US occupations, one by one. Measured by total US work hours, robots can do 34% of work, mostly in dedicated spaces like factories. By the same measure, they are cheaper than people for just 0.3%. Even if robot costs fall 3% a year, it would take about 40 years for robots to be cheaper across 10% of total work hours.

Insights2026.09.27

Coding agents got so good that Shopify now builds every app twice: once for iOS, once for Android

Shopify has built its mobile apps from a single codebase since 2020, and now it is rewriting them separately for iOS and Android. Coding agents cut the cost of writing everything twice, so Shopify's focus has moved from the amount of code to the time it takes to check what the AI built.

Insights2026.09.27

AI agents finished whole research papers on their own, but judgment, not experimentation, is where they stalled

Researchers from Princeton, the UK AI Security Institute, and other institutions gave frontier agents the research questions behind two unpublished NeurIPS submissions, then had the original authors grade the results. The agents handled everything from the literature review to typesetting without human help, yet both papers were rejected. Here are the five failures the paper traced in the run logs, along with the limits the authors acknowledged.

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Insights2026.09.27

Crediting a career coach for a cover letter didn't hurt trust, but crediting AI did

In 13 experiments preregistered before any data was collected, University of Arizona researchers Schilke and Reimann found that a cover letter credited to a career coach earned the same trust as one with no note at all, while only the one credited to AI lost trust. The penalty held across six ways of wording the disclosure and when disclosure was required by rule, and in the final experiment an advisor exposed by a third party scored lower still than one who disclosed it himself.

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AI agent hacks hit several Korean financial firms, but the breached systems were loan-broker and staff tools, not banking apps

Big employers are asking less for people who use AI and more for people who build with it

Banks want lower legal fees because of AI. Law firms' billable hours went up instead

Robots can do a lot of work. They're cheaper than people for just 0.3% of it

Coding agents got so good that Shopify now builds every app twice: once for iOS, once for Android

AI agents finished whole research papers on their own, but judgment, not experimentation, is where they stalled

Crediting a career coach for a cover letter didn't hurt trust, but crediting AI did

Earlier posts

43% of AI Agents Fail in Production — How AgentX Brings CI/CD to Agent Deployment

Figma Put an AI Agent on the Canvas — Collaborating with an AI That Knows Your Design System

India Cut AI Video Costs by 20x — What Varya Proves

Hired an AI Teammate Without an Interview — How Savoya Hit 40% EBITDA Growth

When Your AI Fails, Customers Don't Blame the AI — They Blame Your Brand

7 of 9: How Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows Beat GPT-5.5

That's My Designer, Claude Design — How AI That Knows Your Brand System Builds Wireframes to Decks

3 Days After Launch, the Government Shut It Down — What AI Export Controls Mean for Your Stack

Pinterest Has More Searches Than ChatGPT — The Taste Graph Behind Its AI Shopping Play

Google Closed the Open Source — A 30-Minute Antigravity CLI Migration After Gemini CLI's Shutdown

You Had 5 Creative Tabs Open — MiniMax Hub Just Closed Them All

You're Not Palantir — You're Accenture With a Better Pitch Deck

The Prompt Box Is Dying — a16z's 3 Partners Map the Agentic Interface Shift

Adobe Didn't Buy an SEO Tool — What $1.9B Reveals About Your Marketing Blind Spot

The Era of Developers-Only Software Is Over — What Anthropic Found at 4 Companies

No Press Coverage Needed — a16z's 1-Year Proof of the Founder Direct Channel Playbook

Google Just Entered Canva's Territory — How to Pick Your AI Marketing Design Tool

Your AI Agents Are Running on Borrowed Credentials — The $66M Fix for Enterprise Identity

Codex Moved Into the Sales Team's Desk — How 6 Role Plugins Changed White-Collar Work Automation

Google Killed Keyword Targeting in AI Mode — Your GML 2026 September Checklist

AI Got 1,000x Cheaper. Enterprise Bills Tripled. The Jevons Paradox Andreessen Predicted.

iPhone's Hidden Superpower — How iOS 27 AI Finally Unlocked Shortcuts for Everyone

If You've Fixed the Prompt 10 Times and the Agent Still Fails — Karpathy Said This a Year Ago

AI Cut Costs 95% — So Why Did Korean Banks See Processing Rates Drop?

From $29 to $750 — How GitHub Copilot's AI Credits Billing Shocked Developers

Tab-Switching Hell Is Over — Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Beta Is Live

I Spent 4 Hours Every Sunday on LinkedIn — Voice Interviews Changed Everything

Your AI Agent Executed a Hacker's Code — How Agentjacking Bypasses Every Security Tool

AI Search Took 58% of Your Clicks — The SEO·GEO·AEO Triple-Layer Strategy

Figma Make's Credits Run Out in 45 Minutes — How to Pick the Right Alternative

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Insights

AI agent hacks hit several Korean financial firms, but the breached systems were loan-broker and staff tools, not banking apps

Big employers are asking less for people who use AI and more for people who build with it

Banks want lower legal fees because of AI. Law firms' billable hours went up instead

Robots can do a lot of work. They're cheaper than people for just 0.3% of it

Coding agents got so good that Shopify now builds every app twice: once for iOS, once for Android

AI agents finished whole research papers on their own, but judgment, not experimentation, is where they stalled

Crediting a career coach for a cover letter didn't hurt trust, but crediting AI did

Earlier posts

43% of AI Agents Fail in Production — How AgentX Brings CI/CD to Agent Deployment

Figma Put an AI Agent on the Canvas — Collaborating with an AI That Knows Your Design System

India Cut AI Video Costs by 20x — What Varya Proves

Hired an AI Teammate Without an Interview — How Savoya Hit 40% EBITDA Growth

When Your AI Fails, Customers Don't Blame the AI — They Blame Your Brand

7 of 9: How Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows Beat GPT-5.5

That's My Designer, Claude Design — How AI That Knows Your Brand System Builds Wireframes to Decks

3 Days After Launch, the Government Shut It Down — What AI Export Controls Mean for Your Stack

Pinterest Has More Searches Than ChatGPT — The Taste Graph Behind Its AI Shopping Play

Google Closed the Open Source — A 30-Minute Antigravity CLI Migration After Gemini CLI's Shutdown

You Had 5 Creative Tabs Open — MiniMax Hub Just Closed Them All

You're Not Palantir — You're Accenture With a Better Pitch Deck

The Prompt Box Is Dying — a16z's 3 Partners Map the Agentic Interface Shift

Adobe Didn't Buy an SEO Tool — What $1.9B Reveals About Your Marketing Blind Spot

The Era of Developers-Only Software Is Over — What Anthropic Found at 4 Companies

No Press Coverage Needed — a16z's 1-Year Proof of the Founder Direct Channel Playbook

Google Just Entered Canva's Territory — How to Pick Your AI Marketing Design Tool

Your AI Agents Are Running on Borrowed Credentials — The $66M Fix for Enterprise Identity

Codex Moved Into the Sales Team's Desk — How 6 Role Plugins Changed White-Collar Work Automation

Google Killed Keyword Targeting in AI Mode — Your GML 2026 September Checklist

AI Got 1,000x Cheaper. Enterprise Bills Tripled. The Jevons Paradox Andreessen Predicted.

iPhone's Hidden Superpower — How iOS 27 AI Finally Unlocked Shortcuts for Everyone

If You've Fixed the Prompt 10 Times and the Agent Still Fails — Karpathy Said This a Year Ago

AI Cut Costs 95% — So Why Did Korean Banks See Processing Rates Drop?

From $29 to $750 — How GitHub Copilot's AI Credits Billing Shocked Developers

Tab-Switching Hell Is Over — Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Beta Is Live

I Spent 4 Hours Every Sunday on LinkedIn — Voice Interviews Changed Everything

Your AI Agent Executed a Hacker's Code — How Agentjacking Bypasses Every Security Tool

AI Search Took 58% of Your Clicks — The SEO·GEO·AEO Triple-Layer Strategy

Figma Make's Credits Run Out in 45 Minutes — How to Pick the Right Alternative

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