Hot Takes
Short, sharp opinion on the AI news cycle. Opinion with a spine — this is the house voice, so it wears the house orange.
I Read 20 Agent Products' Security Docs. 13 Name Prompt Injection. 10 Ship a Control That Survives It.
Every working defense against prompt injection in shipping products today is a subtraction: a capability the vendor removed rather than defended.
Cold Email Isn't Dead. Volume Is. I Read All Three Bulk Sender Policies and the Ceiling Is 30 Complaints Per 10,000.
Two of the three consumer mailbox providers publish a numeric complaint ceiling and both set it at 0.30%, which works out to 30 spam reports per 10,000 inbox-delivered messages. That is the number that ended the volume strategy.
Zero of 20 Agent Platforms Mention Approval Fatigue. Seven Ship the Button That Causes It.
I read the human-in-the-loop docs of 20 agent platforms. None acknowledge reviewer fatigue, none rate-limit approval requests, none expire an approval grant, and four document a permanent 'always allow'.
Peak AI Fatigue Is Not People Quitting AI. It's Worse.
Adoption is at record highs and every sentiment and quality metric is falling at the same time. Everyone uses it, fewer people like it, and the cleanup has a price tag: $186 per employee per month.
Every Agent Demo Works. Then You Give It Real Work.
The demo-to-production gap in AI agents is not a maturity phase. It is structural, the industry's own numbers admit it, and the homepages are built to keep you from noticing.
Everyone Is an AI Company Now, Which Means Nobody Is
I counted the word 'AI' on 19 major SaaS homepages: median 27 mentions, max 106. When two rivals are both 'the only' AI platform, the label has stopped carrying information.
Agents Are Mostly Cron Jobs With Anxiety
The word 'agent' is doing an enormous amount of load-bearing work for what is often a scheduled script and a retry loop.