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2026
10 pieces-
Stop using Claude Code like a chatbot
The Claude Code config Boris Cherny actually runs — settings.json layers, permissions, plan mode, memory, hooks, skills, subagents, MCPs, sandboxing, and the 5-worktree workflow.
Apr 29- claude-code
- anthropic
- developer-workflow
- mcp
- productivity
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20 days that changed the AI agent market
Anthropic shipped Claude Managed Agents on April 8, 2026 at $0.08/hour. Twenty days, 2,029 tweets, and four converging platforms later, infrastructure has commoditized — domain expertise is the new moat.
Apr 28- anthropic
- claude-managed-agents
- agents
- market-analysis
- vertical-saas
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Inside Polymarket V2: every bot on the internet just broke
Polymarket swapped its trading stack in one hour on April 28. Three days later, V1 trades have hit zero, thousands of bot wallets are silent on V2, and the migration looks less like an upgrade than a cull.
Apr 27- polymarket
- prediction-markets
- defi
- polygon
- infrastructure
- bots
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Inside the personal AI runtime wars: 487K stars, 57K issues, 25 SaaS businesses
OpenClaw has 138 CVEs, a 1GB/min memory leak, and a supply-chain attack where 80% of audited skills were malicious. Hermes's flagship feature silently deleted user data on launch day. The SaaS ecosystem built on their pain has 25+ providers.
Apr 26- openclaw
- hermes-agent
- personal-ai
- open-source
- agent-architecture
- security
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The 480-repo marketing-skill cluster on GitHub, in plain terms
Since Anthropic shipped the SKILL.md spec in September 2025, 480+ marketing-flavored skill repos have surfaced on GitHub. Four canon leaders, a bimodal quality distribution, and four conspicuous gaps.
Apr 25- claude-code
- agent-skills
- marketing
- mcp
- github
- anthropic
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ColdIQ's two May drops — the picture and the playbook
Lieben's two May drops in 24 hours: the 19-API picture and the API-led GTM playbook underneath. What shipped, what's vapor, and the five-step migration that decides whether your skill survives team handoff.
Apr 24- claude-code
- gtm
- coldiq
- n8n
- sales-engineering
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YC's Summer 2026 RFS, read against the chatter
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Request for Startups thread reached 8.65M impressions in a week. The chatter underneath the list is more useful than the list.
Apr 23- y-combinator
- requests-for-startups
- agents
- mcp
- founder-strategy
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The $5K-a-month AI-agent agency just became a public playbook
Greg Isenberg's May 12 podcast with Nick Vasiles of Orgo took the underground AI-agent-agency operator pattern and turned it into a 47-minute YouTube playbook. The stack, the unit economics, and the daylight problem are now public.
Apr 22- ai-agents
- agent-agency
- hermes-agent
- orgo
- composio
- solopreneur
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Stripe vs the K-shape — whose data is right about the 2026 consumer?
On Day 2 of Stripe Sessions, Collison and Glassberg Sands said the K-shape is not in their data. The NY Fed, BofA, JPMorgan, Delta and United say otherwise. Both can be right — depending on the panel.
Apr 21- stripe
- macro
- k-shaped-economy
- small-business
- data
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Sequoia’s services-as-software thesis, in plain terms
Sequoia says the next $1T company will be 'a software company masquerading as a services firm.' The sentence buries vertical SaaS as a category — without ever naming it. What that means and which companies fit.
Apr 15- sequoia
- ai-startups
- vertical-saas
- services-as-software
- autopilot