The AI Harness Audit: Clean Your Setup Before You Upgrade
Every time an AI missed something, I added another rule. Eventually, the accumulated skills, memories, system prompts, checks, and permissions became a hidden system of their own—and that system was g...
15 Jul 15min
Pick an AI Model That Fits How You Actually Work
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening as the model race expands into GPT-5.6, Fable 5, Grok 4.5, GLM 5.2, and increasingly complicated model m...
13 Jul 13min
AI-Native Companies Run on Code: 15 Rules for Operators
AI made it cheap to build almost anything. Most companies still ship at the old pace, and it isn't because their AI is worse than Anthropic's or OpenAI's. The real difference is what they've moved out...
12 Jul 17min
Agent-Shaped Work: When to Use AI Agents (and When Not To)
Most people bought AI agents and never figured out what to point them at. This is the one-minute test that tells you whether a task belongs in a chat, a single agent, a team of agents, or nowhere near...
10 Jul 28min
How to Trust AI Agents: Verify the Work, Not the Model
Multi-agent AI systems just went from research project to recipe. I ran 20+ AI agents across 4 model families to rebuild a website in one afternoon for about $8 — and the system caught every hallucina...
8 Jul 19min
Model Routing Is Table Stakes. Here's the Real AI Edge
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI execution gets cheaper but everything starts to feel the same?The common story is that cheaper m...
5 Jul 15min
One Reusable AI Agent for Insurance, Taxes, and More
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when an email/calendar agent becomes useful enough for real paperwork?The common story is that AI agents...
3 Jul 15min
Which AI Model to Use for Any Task Without Overpaying
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when every AI model suddenly looks replaceable?The common story is that model choice is the strategy, bu...
2 Jul 14min
