Apple's New Mac Line is Built Around Local AI. The Bet Is You'd Rather Own Than Rent.
Apple's latest desktop Mac refresh is not a simple race against NVIDIA. It is a bet that useful intelligence will become small and cheap enough to own locally, even as frontier agents demand more clou...
31 Elo 22min
Why AI Agents Produce Process Instead of Finished Work
AI agents are always solving for a passing condition. If that condition is not a business result you care about, sophisticated and relentless activity can still produce work nobody wanted.In this exec...
30 Elo 27min
How I Fight AI Brain Rot Without Using AI Less
Most AI tools are designed to remove friction. Nate Jones argues that a more powerful use is to create productive friction: push an idea through disagreement, comparison, testing, and other people unt...
28 Elo 27min
Managing AI Agents at Scale: The Human Work Nobody Counts
What We Mean When We Say We Need an AgentAgents were supposed to take work off our plates. Instead, as agent usage grows, people are taking on a new layer of work: choosing what runs, supplying contex...
26 Elo 31min
Forward Deployed Engineer: What It Is and How to Become One
AI's newest high-paying role is not simply a software-engineering job with a customer-facing title. Forward-deployed engineers find the leverage point inside a real workflow, build and inspect the sma...
26 Elo 26min
Stripe Paid $7.5 Billion For OpenRouter. You Are Living In The Age Of Startups.
Stripe's reported acquisition of OpenRouter is a bet on two curves changing at once: more companies are forming, and software agents are beginning to use economic infrastructure directly.Nate Jones ex...
24 Elo 25min
GLM-5.3 Setup in Claude Code and Codex: Cut Your Bill
Nate Jones explains how GLM-5.3 can run inside familiar Claude Code and Codex workflows, what project context carries across, what conversation history does not, and why a cheaper model can still beco...
21 Elo 20min
One Cancelled Gym Class. That's How Agent Swarm Attacks Start.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI agents interact with software, credentials, and other people’s systems?The common story is that ...
17 Elo 21min
