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The New Coding Agents Problem: They Don’t Work Together

Zach Lloyd, Founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-native developer platform. Previously a Principal Engineer at Google, he led engineering for Google Docs and Google Sheets. The past year saw an explosion of coding agents, like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Warp Agent, highly capable tools increasingly taking on the work of a junior engineer. Developers have spen

Zach Lloyd · JUL 7, 2026

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Policy & Governance

AI Won't Build Houses. But It Can Get Them Approved Faster.

Cyrus Symoom, CEO at Clariti, a leading provider of community development solutions that help local governments modernize permitting operations, simplify staff workflows, strengthen compliance, and deliver faster, more consistent permit outcomes. You submit your construction plans to the city and wait. Weeks pass, then months. Nobody calls. When you finally

Cyrus Symoom · JUN 30, 2026

Policy & Governance

A Tax System Built on Labor Is a Tax System Built on a Melting Glacier

Guest contributor: Scott Santens writes Foreword for Humanity on Substack, advocates for Universal Basic Income, and founded the Income To Support All Foundation and the AI Pledge for Humanity. Something strange happened over the past ten months. The idea that the public should own a stake in the companies getting rich off automation went from fringe to seem

Scott Santens · JUN 29, 2026

Future Of Work

Genie’s Not Going Back in the Bottle

Guest contributor: Deepanshu Sharma is an independent analyst, researcher, and writer decoding AI capabilities, evaluating benchmarks, and simplifying the societal impacts of these emerging technologies. I was recently watching a Demis Hassabis interview, and his one line has stuck with me. When Stanford President John Levin asked, “Demis, if you were back i

Deepanshu Sharma · JUN 26, 2026

Big Tech

Build the Loop, Not the Agent

Namrata Ganatra & Ethan Wang June 22, 2026 Guest contributors: Ethan Wang is founding member of Google DeepMind Spark agent and founding member of Google DeepMind Mariner Agent. Namrata Ganatra is VP of Product & Engineering at Intuit, founder of AI-Native Builders, former AI startup founder, and ex-leader at Meta, Coinbase, Xero, and Microsoft. Most teams t

Namrata Ganatra, Ethan Wang · JUN 23, 2026

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Zeitgeist · July 9, 2026

The Week AI Became A Cost Question

Today's discussion kept coming back to a practical question: not which model is smartest in isolation, but which one is good enough to run real work at a sane cost. GPT-5.6 was the center of gravity, with Fable as the comparison point and open-source pressure in the background.