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#Agents

AI agents that plan, build, test and ship. The agentic software factory.

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AIOct 23, 2026 · 12:51 AM ET · Marginal Revolution

From Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: Will AI poison the public finances of many modern states? There is a real risk that it will. Yesterday, I circulated a new paper, “Saving for the Machines,” which makes a simple point. Building the AI transformation will require enormous investment. The only way to induce agents to save for that investment […] The post Will bystander economies be able to finance...

Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, real estate; Source: Marginal Revolution.
AIOct 22, 2026 · 2:09 PM ET · Simon Willison

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP). I'm pleased to note I...

Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents; Source: Simon Willison.
AIOct 21, 2026 · 9:04 AM ET · Latent Space

Claude Mods is an early form of the Attention Interface. It flips the agent harness paradigm from the harness facing the machine, to the harness facing the human.

Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents; Source: Latent Space.
AIOct 19, 2026 · 7:58 PM ET · Simon Willison

My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because...

Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, labor share; Source: Simon Willison.
CapitalOct 16, 2026 · 10:00 AM ET · a16z

Super-Pareto TikTok Shop; Cure to High Prices is High Prices; Zoomers Living Large?

Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: Capital item; Topics: agents; Source: a16z.
CapitalOct 15, 2026 · 10:08 AM ET · a16z

Personal agents have arrived, setting off a race for who controls how they spend consumers money.

Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: Capital item; Topics: agents; Source: a16z.
AIOct 14, 2026 · 4:35 PM ET · Latent Space

How Leash Bio tamed DELs, the assay that traumatizes everyone, and used the data to catch cheating models. And why that same data is perfect for AI agents learning to think like chemists.

Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, compute; Source: Latent Space.