Claude Fable 5.1 Effort Levels: Start on Low, Not High
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when an AI model can build the workbook, the deck, and the architectural film—but you still need to insp...
4 Sep 18min
Switching AI Providers: The Real Cost Nobody Prices
OpenAI’s first AI inference chip, the fight over access to Cursor, and NVIDIA’s response reveal three competing strategies for the future of AI.Nate maps the three camps: OpenAI wants to own more of t...
2 Sep 17min
Apple's New Mac Line is Built Around Local AI. The Bet Is You'd Rather Own Than Rent.
Apple's latest desktop Mac refresh is not a simple race against NVIDIA. It is a bet that useful intelligence will become small and cheap enough to own locally, even as frontier agents demand more clou...
31 Aug 22min
Why AI Agents Produce Process Instead of Finished Work
AI agents are always solving for a passing condition. If that condition is not a business result you care about, sophisticated and relentless activity can still produce work nobody wanted.In this exec...
30 Aug 27min
How I Fight AI Brain Rot Without Using AI Less
Most AI tools are designed to remove friction. Nate Jones argues that a more powerful use is to create productive friction: push an idea through disagreement, comparison, testing, and other people unt...
28 Aug 27min
Managing AI Agents at Scale: The Human Work Nobody Counts
What We Mean When We Say We Need an AgentAgents were supposed to take work off our plates. Instead, as agent usage grows, people are taking on a new layer of work: choosing what runs, supplying contex...
26 Aug 31min
Forward Deployed Engineer: What It Is and How to Become One
AI's newest high-paying role is not simply a software-engineering job with a customer-facing title. Forward-deployed engineers find the leverage point inside a real workflow, build and inspect the sma...
26 Aug 26min
Stripe Paid $7.5 Billion For OpenRouter. You Are Living In The Age Of Startups.
Stripe's reported acquisition of OpenRouter is a bet on two curves changing at once: more companies are forming, and software agents are beginning to use economic infrastructure directly.Nate Jones ex...
24 Aug 25min
