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AI Builders Digest
Saturday, April 25, 2026
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Box CEO Aaron Levie warned yesterday that AI agents create more work, not less. Today, we're seeing why: DeepSeek just dropped a million-token model for pennies, and developers are already stress-testing the latest models with impossibly complex tasks. The tools keep getting better, but the ambition grows even faster.
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Box CEO Aaron Levie: AI agents create more work, not less
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Box CEO Aaron Levie pushed back on the idea that AI will reduce workloads anytime soon. He explained that AI agents make it easy to start projects that previously seemed too daunting, leading people to take on far more work than before. "I regularly have seemingly small things that end up quickly consuming 3 hours because the agent made it easy to get started, but you still have to do the rest of the work to complete the project," Levie wrote.
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Why it matters: Every startup that hired 3 people and gave them AI agents instead of hiring 10 is about to learn this the hard way. The work didn't disappear. It moved to the person who has to manage what the agent started but couldn't finish.
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DeepSeek releases V4 with 1 million token context at bargain prices
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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4 Preview with a massive 1 million token context window and made it open source. The company is positioning this as "cost-effective" long-context AI, though specific pricing wasn't disclosed in the brief announcement.
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Why it matters: DeepSeek keeps proving that Chinese AI labs can match Silicon Valley's technical capabilities at a fraction of the cost. If you're paying OpenAI enterprise rates for long-context work, you now have a much cheaper alternative that processes entire codebases in a single prompt.
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Product leader Peter Yang: Only GPT-5.5 can build a working F-Zero game
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Product leader Peter Yang has been testing each new AI model by asking it to build an F-Zero racing game. So far, only the combination of GPT-5.5 and Codex has managed to create a fully functional game, complete with racing bots as opponents. Yang called it "an insane time to be building."
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Why it matters: This is the new benchmark for coding AI. Forget "can it write a React component." The question is now "can it build a complete game with AI opponents." Most models still can't handle that level of complexity.
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NYC AI meetup highlights Ramp's "agentic innovation"
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VC Matt Turck promoted an AI meetup in NYC featuring demos from Ramp, which he said "has been cooking lately with a lot of agentic innovation." The event also includes Estuary, which provides data infrastructure for AI applications.
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Developer Peter Steinberger shares favorite security advisories
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PSPDFKit founder Peter Steinberger posted a link to what he called his "favorite security advisories," though the brief post didn't elaborate on which specific advisories or what made them noteworthy.
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