Notes from the field on what actually works when building AI-native products. The SaaS playbook is breaking down: the product is now a substrate, not a solution. Observations on omnipresent interfaces, flat knowledge, closed loops, and displaced bottlenecks.
In the span of ten days, AI agents built themselves a social network, a marketplace, and a gig economy platform. Is this a new universe, or just an elaborate prank?
The core challenge of deploying automation in a legacy environment, like a warehouse, isn't the robot, it's the interfaces. When systems with different natural speeds are forced through shared integration points, small disturbances amplify instead of dampening.
Twelve falsifiable predictions for embodied AI in 2026, from VLA scaling laws to humanoid safety incidents. The models are getting good enough; the deployment wall is the real test.
