Rakshit Lodha

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Latest edition21 October 2026

If Your Tokens Aren't Worth 4X Inside Your Product, What Are You Even Doing?

Parker Conrad (Rippling) takes on Vanta's Christina Cacioppo over AI token economics: the intelligence has to be worth more inside your product than on top of it, or you're just reselling the labs. Plus Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model at 1,068 tokens a second, Beacon's open-source memory for coding agents, the WisprFlow content-engine playbook, Sajith Pai on why your ask is your valuation, and Dan Koe on the artisan era. The through-line: tokens, tools, and attention are all rented — the value has to live inside.

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  1. 0220 October 2026The Answer Is the New Front Page
  2. 0319 October 2026The Default Experience Is Becoming a Suggestion
  3. 0418 October 2026Half the Speed of Sound Over the Grand Canyon
  4. 0517 October 2026Turns Out the Future Does Have Flying Cars
  5. 0616 October 2026Three Billion Throwaway Computers
  6. 0715 October 2026The Harness Is the New Operating System
  7. 0814 October 2026Over a Cheeky Pint, the Agentic Commerce Playbook
  8. 0913 October 2026Muse Wonder: Meta’s frontier family arrives — benchmark table included, asterisk attached
  9. 1012 October 2026The capability funnel: almost everyone is arguing from tier one
  10. 1111 October 2026Capability → trust → autonomy: the three phases of the agent age
  11. 1210 October 2026The always-on agent is an architecture, not a model
  12. 139 October 2026The agent week, part two: everybody owns the surface now
  13. 148 October 2026OpenAI’s launch week: GPT-6 in Chat, interfaces that build themselves
  14. 157 October 2026Talk to Claude the way you would a coworker
  15. 166 October 2026The vertical turn: Collison’s bet on the boring end of the stack
  16. 175 October 2026The priority paradox: why Google is brilliant at everything except what matters most
  17. 184 October 2026Opus 5.5’s crazy take: the elimination of boredom
  18. 193 October 2026The $43 Billion Lesson in Holding: Eduardo Saverin’s Revenge
  19. 202 October 2026A Year of Go: What High Performers Do That Low Performers Don’t
  20. 211 October 2026The Plugin Gold Rush: ChatGPT Just Opened the Biggest Free Distribution Channel of 2026
  21. 2230 September 2026OpenAI’s “dots”: always-on agents with their own computer
  22. 2329 September 2026The $100 Domain That Outlived Everyone Who Said It Was Too Early
  23. 2428 September 2026The Agent Engineering Playbook
  24. 2526 September 2026The AI Assistant is Finally Here. Notes from the Start of the Cycle