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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

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Lessons from Max Mullen

Lessons from Max Mullen Max Mullen co founded Instacart, an app that normalized grocery delivery by wrapping complex retail logistics in simple product...
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AI Fiction Has a Plot Fingerprint

StoryScope suggests that AI fiction can be detected from narrative decisions, not just surface style: tidy plots, explicit themes, and less structural variety.
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Synthetic Societies Need Belief Models, Not Personas

A NeurIPS position paper argues that LLM social simulations need traceable belief models, not just fluent personas and plausible survey answers.
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Agent Skills Are the New Supply Chain

A systematization paper argues that reusable agent skills are becoming the procedural layer of agent systems, with real gains and real supply-chain risk.
Digest 5 min read Free

Daily Digest - 2026-05-29

1. The Orchestration Tax — Addy Osmani Why read: A mental model for the hidden costs of running multiple AI agents. Summary: Spinning up agents is cheap...
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Agent Reliability Is a Runtime Problem

This preprint argues that agent reliability is governed by the runtime harness around the model: execution, tools, context, state, lifecycle policy, and evaluation.
AI & Machine Learning 6 min read Free

AI Moves the Bottleneck Back to the Physical World

Abhay Venkatesh's AI economy report argues that frontier AI may concentrate around scarce compute, capital, energy, and lab capacity.
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AI Automates Workflows, Not Tasks

This paper argues that AI automation depends less on isolated task exposure and more on whether AI-capable steps sit next to each other in a workflow.
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