New AI Models Rarely Improve Agents without Effort
If you’re building AI bots, agents or whatever we want to call it today, then you know the headache that starts when new models show up. It doesn’t end until everything is working at least as good as it was before the model dropped. Not to mention all the FOMO of not testing the new one(s) for your workflows. Figuring out what it degrades, breaks, improves and/or makes obsolete is quite a painful journey. Better models don’t mean instant improvements for your agents. Quite the opposite.
AI Cuts B2B Site Build From 8 Weeks to Days
What typically used to take 8 weeks took me a few days in 2026. In a today’s live AI session at 10AM PT, I’m sharing how I built a full B2B marketing site in 3 days with AI for a new...
From Internal Tools to an Agent Factory
I started by building agents because of internal product work and OpenClaw. Now, it feels like I’m building an agent factory.
From One AI-Generated Page to Cohesive Websites
You can get AI to write a page in seconds. The hard part is making the next five pages feel like they belong. Tomorrow at 10am PT I’ll show the exact workflow I use to go from one strong page...
Cultural Relevance Equals Product‑market Fit
What came to mind as I was reading this is that continuous cultural relevance IS product/market fit. Plain and simple.
Roadmaps Feel Like Progress; Customers See Product Instability
Your roadmap feels like progress to you. To customers, it feels like the product won’t sit still. That gap is where adoption goes to die. Full post:
AI Unifies B2B Site Pages Into Cohesive System
Most B2B websites die the same way. Someone ships a strong homepage, everyone celebrates, then every new page becomes a fresh writing project. The result is drift, repetition, and a site that does not feel like one thing. In the next live...
AI Labels Inflate Expectations—Control What You Promise
If you’re building an AI product, one thing to watch for is how fast expectations move once you label something “AI.” The label alone changes how people judge what they’re seeing. The key is to avoid handing your user a...
Rapid Development Outpaces Adoption; Marketing Becomes Critical
I was a guest on a podcast recently and we got into something I’ve been thinking about a lot. Building is faster than ever, but customers can’t absorb change at the same pace. That gap is where adoption breaks, and it’s...
Use AI to Build Your B2B Homepage Structure
If you’re building a B2B website right now, this is the part everyone rushes and regrets. Tomorrow I’m doing a live session on using AI to turn positioning into a homepage structure and messaging system, plus prompts and templates so...
Turn AI Into Structured, Actionable Homepage Copy
Most AI homepage copy is just expensive filler. Looks good, says nothing. Tomorrow (Tue Apr 14 @ 10am PT) I’ll show how I use AI the opposite way, to turn positioning into a homepage that has flow, makes sense fast, and...
Embedding AI in Shared Channels Accelerates Team Decisions
The most important AI decision at work might be where it lives. In a separate window, it helps one person. In the channel, it can help the team remember what it already figured out. That sounds small until you watch a conversation that...
AI Tools Feel Like They Require a PhD
Without naming names, some of the AI-powered tools I try to use feel like you need a PHD to use them.
Define Audience First, Then Let AI Write Copy
I wrote this because I think a lot of people are making the same mistake with AI and website copy. They’re using it to write pages before they’ve figured out the audience, positioning and what the page actually needs to do. That’s...
Build a B2B Site in 3 Days with AI
Channeling Bob Ross energy this month, except the “happy little trees” are B2B website pages. I built a full B2B marketing site in three days using AI. If you want AI to work on website copy, start with audience and...
Fast AI Drafts Aren’t Functional Websites—Clarity Takes Time
Here’s the trap with AI website building: You can get to a homepage draft in 10 minutes and still be nowhere close to a website that works. Because speed at the copy layer is not the same as clarity at the message...
Your Story: Advantage or Hidden Drag—Make It Concise
Your story is either a competitive advantage or a hidden drag. If your team cannot tell it in one sentence, you do not have one yet.
Bad Environment, Not Pay, Drives Top Talent Away
Your best people are leaving. If it was just money, you could fix it. This is different. The real reason is your environment doesn’t let them do their best work. You hired A-players and they became spectators. You hired people with taste...
Cut AI Team Delays: End Re‑explanations, Silos, Bottlenecks
Why does work still take too long when your team is using AI? I measured 11 weeks to find out. 9,426 messages analyzed. The re-explanation loop costs 2-3 hours per complex task. Knowledge silos break coordination. Sync bottlenecks limit what's possible. I'm showing...
Persistent AI Context Cuts Project Time Tenfold
People tend to use AI like a calculator. Open ChatGPT. Paste context. Get an answer. Copy it back. Next time you need help, start over from scratch. That's calculator mode. You ask a question, get an answer, context disappears. I...
If You Can't Summarize Your Business, You're Lost
You think you know your story because you live it every day. Try this test: Open a blank document and write down your company's story in 200 words. What job are customers hiring you to do? Why does your approach work...
Centralized AI in Slack Turns Knowledge Silos Into Compound Power
Your team's ChatGPT tabs are silos. One person knows something, the rest start from zero. I run AI in Slack. 13 channels. One agent sees product decisions, technical builds, strategy threads, everything. Knowledge compounds instead of resetting. That changes what's possible....
Live OpenClaw Setup: Get Guide and Config Files Free
Live OpenClaw setup this Friday, March 27 at 1:30 PM PT. I'm setting it up from scratch in real-time. Server spin-up to the first Slack message. You'll see what actually matters. Walk away with the setup guide and the config files I...
Join My Live AI Session on Friday's Top Request
I’m doing another live AI session on Friday. It’s on a topic countless people have asked me to talk about. 🦞💬
Founders Must Own Storytelling; Strategy Can't Be Delegated
The story has to come from the founder. This frustrates people. Founders want to delegate storytelling the same way they delegate other functions. Hire a head of marketing and let them own it. Bring in a communications expert and hand...
AI Solves Feasibility; You Decide What's Worth Building
The gap between "I can build this" and "this is worth building" has never been wider. AI closed the first one completely. The second one is still yours. Speed has never been cheaper. Imagination has never mattered more.
Join My Free Live AI Session Today at Noon
Doing a free live session at noon pst today (in about an hour). Going to share how I’ve been working with AI. You can still register and join here: https://t.co/wkYajstYeO
Google Embraces Zero-Click Search, Keeps Traffic, Increases Ad Costs
Everyone says AI is unbundling Google Search. ChatGPT processes 1.6 billion queries a day. Perplexity grew 340% last year. The narrative writes itself. But look closer at the numbers and something else is happening. ChatGPT has 12% of Google's search volume. It sends...
From Curiosity to Mastery: Companies Seek Full AI Toolkit
Hearing this from startups and Fortune 500s: "How do I use all of Claude's features?" A few months ago, nobody asked. AI became a workflow while people were still deciding if it was real.
AI Shifts Focus From Hiring Engineers to Defining Products
For twenty years, software companies raced to hire more engineers. The constraint was velocity. AI breaks that model. The constraint now is knowing what to build. That's a harder problem, and most teams haven't adjusted to it yet.
Reality Distortion: 11 Years to Grasp Its Dual Nature
I named something in 2015. Called it Infectious Enthusiasm. Turns out I was only describing half of it. The other half took 11 years of watching founders use it well and badly to actually understand. Here's the truth about reality distortion.
Figma’s Silent Change Signals Fight for Design Infrastructure Control
In February 2026, Figma released version 126.1.2. One line in the changelog caught nobody's attention. It should have. The update stripped --remote-debugging-port on startup, with no announcement and no deprecation warning. Just gone. Overnight, developers who'd spent months building automation...
Early Bets Win; Amazon’s Late Entry Costs Billions
Early positioning beats late capital every time. Amazon just invested $50 billion in OpenAI for 6 percent ownership and distribution rights. Microsoft invested $13.8 billion starting in 2019 and owns 23.5 percent with exclusive IP, revenue sharing, and API control locked through...
Few Use OpenClaw for Real Value‑Driving Work
Most people posting about OpenClaw are not running it for real meaningful work use cases. @chrysb is one of the few who is and sharing (more than me) about it. His list is real and realistically even only scratches the surface...
Envisioning the Next Generation of Frontier AI Labs
Thinking a bunch about frontier AI labs and what a new kind of lab might look like.
Quick AI Wins, Corporate Secrets, and Cognitive Debt Unveiled
Today's Operator Links: https://t.co/31uzXeX8YJ 1️⃣ He Built OpenAI's Competitor in One Month Then Joined Them - @steipete 2️⃣ Leaving Parties at 9:30 for Agents - @nikunj 3️⃣ Sega's Criminal Origin Story - Bradford Morgan White 4️⃣ Finance Can't Figure Out AI - @BrookerBelcourt 5️⃣ Cognitive Debt...
Teach Humans to Thrive When AI Handles Tech
Everyone's worried about training AI. The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work. What do you even teach them?
AI Hype Fades: Embedded Intelligence Outpaces Empty Promises
Today's Operator Links: https://t.co/4GH6Pi68dj 1️⃣ Software's First Act Is Over - @MarcJBrooker 2️⃣ Embedded Intelligence Beats Frontier Models - @om 3️⃣ AI Fatigue Is Real and Nobody Talks About It - @siddhant_K_code 4️⃣ The AI Bubble I Live In (And You Probably Don't) - @joozio 5️⃣...
Today's Top Tech &
Today's Operator Links: https://t.co/apSA1AByaF 1️⃣ Shipping Covers All Sins - @sjgoedecke 2️⃣ $285 Billion Wiped Out Because of a Text File @thomas_witt 3️⃣ AI's Private Equity Time Bomb - @Unmack1 4️⃣ OpenClaw Is What Apple Should Have Created - Jake Quist 5️⃣ Company as Code -...
Use AI Now or Get Left Behind
If you know AI can already do a part of your job, you should be the one taking advantage of that. Aggressively. If you're waiting for permission, someone else isn't. Here's what happens when you wait. Your competitor figures it out....
AI Agents Shift From Commands to Autonomous Supervision
We're building systems that need babysitters. People think agents are smarter chatbots. Ask a question, get an answer, move on. Background agents are different. They check your email while you sleep and schedule things without being asked. These systems run on their...
Key Tech
Today's Operator Links: https://lnkd.in/gMYc6eW5 1️⃣ Why AI Systems Are Easy to Trick - Barath Raghavan & Bruce Schneier 2️⃣ Search Traffic Didn’t Fall Off a Cliff - Ethan Smith 3️⃣ AI Rewards Structure Before Talent - Gabe Mays 4️⃣ The...
Ads Must Align With Real‑Time User Intent
For decades, digital advertising has trained marketers to optimize for interruption. You buy attention, compress a message into a few characters, and hope the click carries enough intent to survive the landing page. That model works when discovery and evaluation...
Most Companies Mismanage AI Adoption—Here's Why
"You're Likely Screwing Up AI Adoption..." & more in today’s Operator Links, full post + sources in the comments.
Stop Overusing ‘Pivot’: Distinguish Real Evidence‑Driven Shifts
Startup people reach for the word “pivot” when they want a decision to sound intentional. I’ve seen teams use it for everything from a careful course correction to quietly walking away from a plan that stopped holding up. Same word....
Real User Feedback Cuts Illusory Product Busywork
Most product work feels busy because it hasn’t touched reality yet. Real feedback compresses time. Internal activity stretches it. The longer you delay contact with users, the more convincing the fake progress becomes.
Testing Daily Signals to Boost Operator Decision Speed
For 11 years, I’ve sent a weekly newsletter. Five hundred seventy-two issues built around links people consistently tell me they actually read. That cadence works. I’m keeping it. But frequency isn’t the same thing as usefulness. A lot of operator...
Thinking in Public Drives Alignment, Not Just Polished Performance
Building in public became a performance once everything was edited. Thinking in public is what building in public looked like before polish took over. Building in public used to create shared context. Now it often creates admiration. Thinking in public...
Post‑crisis “Diligence” Masks Underlying Process Gaps
I keep seeing the same thing after teams realize something important too late. The impact shows up in how work gets done. Extra checks get added before meetings. People start keeping private notes. Someone is asked to manually watch competitors....
People, Not AI Tools, Drive Real World Change
AI is a tool. Tools don’t change the world by themselves. People do.