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Autonomous Coding Agents Go Mobile, and Bad AI Software Gets Called Out

July 6, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, July 6, 2026 Autonomous Coding Agents Go Mobile, and Bad AI Software Gets Called Out Two things worth sitting with today: Alessio...

What AI Really Costs to Build: Simon Willison's $149 Experiment

July 5, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, July 5, 2026 What AI Really Costs to Build: Simon Willison's $149 Experiment Simon Willison published a detailed accounting of using...

AI Regulation, Open Source Reality Checks, and Agent Cost Control

July 4, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, July 4, 2026 AI Regulation, Open Source Reality Checks, and Agent Cost Control Three threads worth sitting with today: Dario Amodei...

Understanding Is the New Bottleneck: What AI Speed Means for PMs

July 3, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, July 3, 2026 Understanding Is the New Bottleneck: What AI Speed Means for PMs When AI can write code faster than humans can understand...

Fable 5 Returns, Notion Gets External Agents, and the Real AI Replacement Story

July 2, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, July 2, 2026 Fable 5 Returns, Notion Gets External Agents, and the Real AI Replacement Story Anthropic redeployed Fable 5 with a new...

Claude Sonnet 5 Launches, Chatbots Start Fading, and Cursor Goes Team-First

July 1, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 Launches, Chatbots Start Fading, and Cursor Goes Team-First Claude Sonnet 5 is available across AWS...

How PMs Are Rethinking Leverage, Autonomy, and AI-Shaped Problems

June 30, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, June 30, 2026 How PMs Are Rethinking Leverage, Autonomy, and AI-Shaped Problems Today's signals converge on a single uncomfortable...

Cursor Goes Mobile and Gusto Ships Without Docs

June 29, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, June 29, 2026 Cursor Goes Mobile and Gusto Ships Without Docs Two patterns collide today: AI coding tools keep expanding their surface...

When Taste Becomes the Product Skill, and a Year of VPS Coding

June 28, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, June 28, 2026 When Taste Becomes the Product Skill, and a Year of VPS Coding Two practitioner perspectives today worth sitting with:...

Karpathy's Third UI Paradigm and What GPT-5.6 Sol Tells Us

June 27, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, June 27, 2026 Karpathy's Third UI Paradigm and What GPT-5.6 Sol Tells Us Andrej Karpathy named something important this week: AI is...

LangSmith Gets a Brain, Sierra Says Keep Agents Simple

June 26, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, June 26, 2026 LangSmith Gets a Brain, Sierra Says Keep Agents Simple LangChain shipped a batch of production tooling this week that's...

Vercel AI SDK 7, Figma Config 2026, and LangChain's Agent Development Lifecycle

June 25, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, June 25, 2026 Vercel AI SDK 7, Figma Config 2026, and LangChain's Agent Development Lifecycle Three things worth your time today:...

Open-Weight Models, Agent Memory, and Cursor's Customize Page

June 24, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Open-Weight Models, Agent Memory, and Cursor's Customize Page Three concrete signals today: Lenny tested GLM-5.2 as a...

The Inner Game of AI: Lenny on PMs and Unfair Advantages

June 23, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, June 23, 2026 The Inner Game of AI: Lenny on PMs and Unfair Advantages Lenny drops his most direct essay yet on what makes PMs...

How AI Agents Are Getting Their Own Payment Rails and Mozilla's 423-Fix Month

June 22, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, June 22, 2026 How AI Agents Are Getting Their Own Payment Rails and Mozilla's 423-Fix Month Two signals worth connecting today: AWS...

AI Teams, AI Spending Data, and the Talent Shuffle at the Top

June 21, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, June 21, 2026 AI Teams, AI Spending Data, and the Talent Shuffle at the Top Three things worth your attention today: Lenny's interview...

AI Agent Infrastructure Is the Real Story Right Now

June 20, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, June 20, 2026 AI Agent Infrastructure Is the Real Story Right Now Three separate companies shipped or expanded agent infrastructure...

Cursor Automations, Stripe's AI Spending Data, and LangSmith Goes No-Code

June 19, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, June 19, 2026 Cursor Automations, Stripe's AI Spending Data, and LangSmith Goes No-Code Cursor shipped always-on automation agents...

AI Spending Data, Cursor Cloud Agents, and Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

June 18, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, June 18, 2026 AI Spending Data, Cursor Cloud Agents, and Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI Stripe published real consumer AI spending data...

Vercel Goes All-In on Agents, AWS Builds the Rails

June 17, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Vercel Goes All-In on Agents, AWS Builds the Rails Vercel dropped three agent-focused launches in a single day — a...