Let’s do this again, redux! I’ll explain how to use AI agents for easy language learning, to create an easier version of my morning briefing, and finally, a far easier version of my briefing transcription -> summary -> action pipeline. In the process, my goal is to help readers remix the general principles for their own (mostly safe) agents.
My last piece about AI agents was my most popular and widely shared article to date. Usually, one writes a “Part 1” that’s easier and a “Part 2” that’s more complex. This is the exact opposite.
… So, in this revisit, I have these goals:
— Explain the general principles of creating agents (more slowly)
— Use methods that are more accessible to non-technical users.
— Give a framework for remixing these methods for readers’ own ideas/agents.
Ironically, this piece took longer than my last one. Instead of just sharing my workflows, this piece is designed to let you use these agents with step-by-step instructions, from scratch, and have them adapted to you (not me). — Read More
Daily Archives: March 12, 2026
The SaaSpocalypse: AI Agents, Vibe Coding, and the Changing Economics of SaaS
Over the past few months, a new phrase has been circulating across tech, venture capital, and public markets:
“The SaaSpocalypse.”
The narrative is straightforward, and a bit alarming for SaaS operators. What’s real and what’s clickbait?
We know this. AI agents are improving rapidly. Coding tools can generate entire applications. AI can automate workflows once performed inside SaaS products.
If software can now be generated on demand, the logic goes: why pay recurring subscriptions for SaaS at all? — Read More
Andrej Karpathy’s new open source ‘autoresearch’ lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications
Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term “vibe coding”— posted on X about his new open source project, autoresearch.
It wasn’t a finished model or a massive corporate product: it was by his own admission a simple, 630-line script made available on Github under a permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License. But the ambition was massive: automating the scientific method with AI agents while us humans sleep. — Read More
The Anthropic Shockwave: Why Claude Code Security Just Nuked Cybersecurity Stocks
The Dirty Secret of the SOC
Here is the nuclear option nobody in Silicon Valley wanted to talk about. For years, the cybersecurity industry has been a high stakes gambling ring built on a house of cards. You pay millions for “endpoint protection” and “zero trust” wrappers that essentially act as expensive digital duct tape. But what happens when the tape is no longer needed because the hole in the wall simply ceases to exist.
Anthropic just pressed the button.
On February 20, 2026, the AI industry stopped playing nice. With the launch of Claude Code Security, Anthropic didn’t just release another “assistant.” They released a predator. This isn’t the usual incremental update. This is a paradigm shift where the LLM moves from “writing buggy code” to “fixing bugs that have existed since the Clinton administration.” — Read More
Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent
Two weeks after launching Perplexity Computer, a cloud-based AI agent that can orchestrate 20 frontier models to execute multi-step workflows autonomously, the company used its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday to dramatically widen the platform’s reach
The centrepiece of announcement is Personal Computer: software that runs continuously on a user-supplied Mac mini, merging local files, apps, and sessions with Perplexity’s cloud-based Computer system. — Read More
The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering
AI’s coding ability is outpacing our ability to wield it effectively. That’s why all the SWE-bench score maxxing isn’t syncing with the productivity metrics engineering leadership actually cares about. When Anthropic’s team ships a product like Cowork in 10 days and another team can’t move past a broken POC using the same models, the difference is that one team has closed the gap between capability and practice and the other hasn’t.
That gap doesn’t close overnight. It closes in levels. 8 of them. Most of you reading this are likely past the first few, and you should be eager to reach the next one because each subsequent level is a huge leap in output, and every improvement in model capability amplifies those gains further.
Level 1: Tab Complete
Level 2: Agent IDE
Level 3: Context Engineering
Level 4: Compounding Engineering
Level 5: MCP and Skills
Level 6: Harness Engineering
Level 7: Background Agents
Level 8: Autonomous Agent Teams
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