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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

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Vibe Coding — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary The interesting question in vibe coding is no longer whether AI can write code. It can. The harder question is who owns the app after the code exists. Vibe coding is the shift from writing software line by line to steering software agents with intent and feedback. The
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Lessons from Amanda Askell

Lessons from Amanda Askell Amanda Askell is a philosopher who transitioned from researching the ethics of infinity to leading personality alignment at...
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Private Connectivity Layer — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary The corporate VPN is dying slowly, and not because the world found a prettier VPN client. It is dying because the thing it used to represent, private access to internal systems, has split into too many jobs for one blunt network tunnel. A laptop needs to reach a
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Daily Digest - 2026-06-12

1. Systems of Record Won the SaaS Era Clearinghouses Will Win the Agents Era — Clouded Judgement by Jamin Ball Why read: Explains the ultimate strategic...
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Lessons from Gwynne Shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, where she bridges the gap between ambitious concepts and daily manufacturing...
Research Explainers 9 min read Free

Agent Coding Costs Hide in Review, Not Generation

A study of ChatDev traces finds that agentic coding systems spend most tokens on review and repeated context passing, not initial code generation.
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Agents Change Work by Lowering the Cost of Execution

A Perplexity field study compares conversational search with autonomous agent execution and finds large time savings, lower dissatisfaction, and broader task scope.
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Synthetic Consumers Work Better When They Talk First

A consumer research paper finds that LLMs can match human purchase-intent surveys when they answer in free text before being mapped back to Likert ratings.
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