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Weekly#677

  • Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
  • Introducing Markdown for Agents
  • An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services…”…Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter…”
  • The new AI-driven SDLC
  • OpenAI Plans to Price Smart Speaker at $200 to $300, as AI Device Team Takes Shape
  • Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro for ‘complex problem-solving’
  • Open Notebook: A Secure Alternative to Google NotebookLM
  • The conflation of betting markets and news began with political coverage
  • AI software vendors say potential customers are taking longer to evaluate purchases, and shopping less eagerly than they were a year ago (WSJ)
  • Pentagon-Anthropic battle pushes other AI labs into major dilemma
  • Using Jet Engines to Power Data Centers (WSJ)
  • The Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude
  • When Every Company Can Use the Same AI Models, Context Becomes a Competitive Advantage (HBR) “...What do we mean by “context”? Context is demonstrated execution: the workflows teams actually follow across systems, the signals they respond to, the order in which roles get involved, the exceptions that trigger action, and the judgment calls that repeat across real work. These patterns are visible only in execution, not in stated process…“
  • “...Thus, the idea is that just making code is not enough. For example, India based companies have had the ability to create and market enterprise class software for decades … at scale. And there is certainly enough talent that has been exposed to business logic and domain expertise while working at India-based subdivisions of the biggest legacy players. Yet over the decades, even with this insight and a massive low-cost skilled workforce, no regional vendors have successfully emerged to challenge the legacy US vendors, in our view. Factors such as having enterprise class sales teams, technology cross-licensing agreements, proprietary and patented IP, industry specific domain expertise, aligned workflows with industry practice, being first-to-market, having brand awareness, scale, or effective go-to-market strategies are just the tip of the iceberg when looking into the key attributes needed to compete effectively in the software sector and … just making code is not enough…“

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