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Past Editions

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May 9, 2026 #43
WHERE YOUR AGENT FORGETS THIS WEEKEND: STATE, PREFERENCES, OR OBSERVABILITY
Friday asked operators to pick an engineering primitive before close, and three indie launches plus one HN front-pager overnight all hit the next layer up: forgetting. The weekend call is which of three slices — state, preferences, or visibility — you close first.
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May 8, 2026 #42
THE AGENT PRIMITIVE TO PICK BEFORE FRIDAY CLOSE: CONTROL FLOW, REUSABLE SKILLS, OR STRUCTURED LOOPS
Three Friday signals stack on the same operator call: HN says agents need control flow, not prompts; three reusable-skills frameworks trended on GitHub the same morning; DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve restated the lesson at frontier scale. Pick one primitive — control flow, skill file, or structured loop — before close today.
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May 7, 2026 #41
Blast Radius: Authority, Reversibility, or Verification — Pick One Primitive Before Friday Close
Three vendors landed on the same operator call today — Cloudflare opened agent authority to real spend and deploys, Tilde.run shipped a versioned-filesystem reversibility default, and a solo dev published a residential-ISP CI check for verification. Pick one of the three layers and ship it before Friday close; trying for all three this quarter is how blast-radius work never lands.
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