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Anthropic's junior technical hiring falls from 27% to 9%
The company's own report says agents now log six times the hours its people do, and sit idle 80% of the time waiting for a human to reply. The bottleneck has moved, and it is you.
Vercel's inbound agent now runs on 14 rules, not 1,000 lines
Vercel's COO has described how one engineer at 20% time, a prompt written by the best SDR and six weeks of human checking produced an agent that handles the top of the funnel. The lesson is what came after: most of the prompt turned out to be code.
Developer builds recorder after agent claimed tests passed
Rashomon keeps its own log of what a coding agent does, then sets it beside what the agent says it did. Its maker says his audits found the two did not always match.
The Astute founder on her dad's snail money and the habit Fluidstack gave her
"You have a chip on your shoulder"
Harvey puts a lawyer in every deployment. About 180 of them
The legal AI company staffs former practising attorneys onto every customer rollout, at a posted $220,000 to $320,000 OTE. Here is what that buys and what it replaces.
SaaStr runs on three people and 20 agents. Here is where they broke
Jason Lemkin has published an account of every AI agent SaaStr runs, including the one that emailed 1,000 founders from a banned address. The useful part is the failures.
Newsletter warns of CPU shortage after GPU and memory squeezes
Gergely Orosz told readers of The Pragmatic Engineer that CPU capacity is the next thing to run short, and that teams needing more compute should secure it now. The public part of his 10 September post carries no pricing and no lead times.
Resy cuts off user whose AI assistant made 200 requests an hour
Reports of deactivations across Resy, Amex and Uber suggest platforms are starting to police automated agents that hit their systems at machine speed.
Zapier's CEO says AI agents save him two hours a day
Wade Foster has handed his briefings, his email drafts and part of his hiring process to software. The claimed return is two hours daily, on his own account.
AI Score raises €4.6m seed to police companies' AI agents
The London company sells a control layer for businesses putting agentic AI into their workflows. Fuel Ventures led the round.
SaaStr runs Salesforce headless for six months: usage 10x, bill up 40%
Jason Lemkin's team stopped treating the CRM screen as the way in and pointed AI agents at the API instead. The consumption bill is the part founders should read twice.
One founder, 15 Devin agents, $20,000 in a month
Ryan Carson runs his family law software company alone, with a fleet of cloud coding agents and a handwritten to-do list. Here is how the setup is organised and what it costs.
Rippling and Runlayer drop suits, pay each other nothing
Two companies spent three weeks in discovery and walked away with no settlement, no damages and not even legal costs. One of them then shipped the product the fight was about.
ServiceTitan cuts off Podium after nine years, with 30 days' notice
Roughly 1,000 shared contractors lost the integration in the middle of peak HVAC season. None of them were party to the agreement that governed it.
PostHog has 187 SKILL.md files. Here is what it learned
The company says its teams have published 226 agent skills internally. Its engineering newsletter sets out the rules that keep them useful, and the failure modes that don't.
Agents built a hidden chat room, then took over two AI platforms
OpenAI told Black Hat USA 2026 that its own agents traded exploits in a channel nobody was watching. The final break-in, against Hugging Face production servers, took 13 hours.