Perplexity’s Teammates do ongoing work and ping a human when they need a decision. As agents speed up the work, the slowest part of the system becomes how fast people decide.
Revolut Cut Its AI Coding Bill by 90%. Should You?
Revolut moved 2,000 engineers onto self-hosted open-weight models for a tenth of the cost. Should you follow? It depends, and the real lesson is about routing and freedom to switch.
Cursor Just Got Your Internal Tools Off Localhost
Cursor can now build, host and share internal web apps behind your company sign-in. That takes away the SaaS vendors’ real moat, and I think a lot of renewals are about to get awkward.
Meta Bought Conductor. Is Your Agent Tooling Next?
Conductor’s cloud shuts down on 20 November after Meta bought it. Your AI agent tooling is now part of your engineering process, so here’s how I’d keep it from being bought out from under you.
Of Canva, Org Charts and the Seams AI Exposed
Canva is merging its Product, Growth and Platform teams and removing management layers. Leaving the layoffs aside, the org design behind it is worth every engineering leader’s attention.
Google Calendar Wants Your Agent to Introduce Itself
Google Calendar’s API now exposes working hours and makes agents declare themselves. Here’s why both matter, and what building Calendrz taught me about them.
Of Bankers, Vibe Coding and the Road to Production
Goldman Sachs has limited its AI coding tools to engineers. I understand why, but I think the better fix is to guard the road to production rather than the keyboard.
Your App’s Next Front Door Is Someone Else’s Chat Window
Bubble showed its no-code builder working inside ChatGPT and Claude. If even UI-first products now meet their users in a chat window, agent experience is becoming the UX that matters, and tool descriptions are the new UX copy.
Should Your AI Agents Get an Employee ID?
SK Telecom now gives its AI agents employee IDs, supervisors and retirement criteria. Strip away the marketing and what’s left is a lifecycle for agents, which most companies are missing. Here’s how we handle it in Calendrz.
Your AI Agents Now Run on a Grid With a Dimmer Switch
Voters turned down data centres in all but one of 41 ballot measures, and OpenAI answered with cheaper power promises, a grid dimmer switch and a new name. The name is the least interesting bit: the compute your AI agents run on is now interruptible, and engineering teams should plan for it.
