Read the operating log.

Published issue / Oct 28, 2026

Agents can touch your money now. Write the approval line first.

Stripe and Gusto opened money and payroll to agents last week. Write your read, prepare, and approve line before you connect anything.

Published issue / Oct 23, 2026

Decision models bill input only. Find the calls that fit.

Decision models from OpenAI, Liquid AI, and TypeSafe return probabilities and bill input tokens only. Find the calls in your app that fit.

Published issue / Oct 21, 2026

Open weights buy control. Decide which job needs it.

Meta and Reflection shipped open coding models back to back. Read the license and the price sheet before you swap one into your app.

Published issue / Oct 13, 2026

Three labs hit $2/$10. Your task cost decides the winner.

Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, and Gemini 4 Argon are all callable now. Benchmark 20 real tasks before setting your app's margin.

Published issue / Oct 2, 2026

GPT-6.1 Astra stays in the lab. Audit the agents already running.

Jain said it missed scope and a plain account of what it did. Your allow-list is the work.

Published issue / Oct 1, 2026

Claude's marketplace is live. Install three connectors, not thirty.

Sep 27 Marketplace launch. Cursor still has an OpenAI cutoff clock on Nov 12. Audit list inside.

Published issue / Sep 28, 2026

Your coding agent's "pinned" plugin might not be pinned

Plugin4Shell broke SHA pinning on Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini CLI. Two are patched. Two are not.

security / plugin4shell / codex

Published issue / Sep 11, 2026

Who owns your agent loop?

OpenAI Agents API and Cursor Projects landed the same week. The question is not another model. It is who runs the standing work.

Published issue / Sep 7, 2026

Don't default everything to Astra

Three launches in four days. The trap is the $10/$50 stampede.

Published issue / Aug 25, 2026

Your agent costs just got cut in half

Gemini 3.7 Flash runs at $0.75/$3.75 per million tokens through Dec. 31, 2026. Plus DeepSeek's open-source agent harness.

Published issue / Aug 1, 2026

Re-bid your model routing before you pay Opus prices

Anthropic listed Opus 5 on July 24 and Sonnet 5 on June 30. Plus Microsoft's security agents hit public preview August 3.

Published issue / Jul 28, 2026

Google's new Gemini + the best AI image prompts today

Three new Gemini models for agents, no 3.5 Pro yet, plus the best AI image prompts to steal for Midjourney.

indexed daily

Published issue / Jul 27, 2026

Gemini Flash just cut your AI automation jobs bill

Google shipped 3 Flash models, delayed Pro again, and raised capex $15B — what it means for your AI automation jobs this week.

Published issue / May 6, 2026

AI automation jobs: Freshworks cuts 11%

Freshworks just laid off 500 as AI writes over half its code. The new map of AI automation jobs — and the stack to stay on the right side of it.

Published issue / Apr 28, 2026

DeepSeek’s discount is the signal

A muted model launch, a sharper AI stack, and one prompt to pressure-test your automation roadmap.