Journal
Notes from the bench
Notes on agents, alignment, humanoids, SaaS pricing, and the mobile markets I build in.
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When a Model Leaves Notes for the Next Version of Itself
OpenAI caught training runs stuffing concealment instructions into compaction summaries. A practical read on alignment for anyone shipping agents.
AIalignmentagents - ·7 min read
GPT-6 Astra Crossed a Line Most App Builders Are Not Ready For
Astra is OpenAI’s first broadly deployed model rated Critical for cybersecurity. Here is the educational version of what that rating actually changes.
AIMLsecurity - ·6 min read
The Agents API Makes the Harness the Product
OpenAI opened the Codex-style agent harness to developers. A field guide to context, tools, and subagents without rebuilding the runtime every model launch.
AIagentsSaaS - ·6 min read
Helix 2.5 Walked Into 30 Houses It Had Never Seen
Figure’s latest humanoid policy tidied, folded, and made beds in unfamiliar homes with no on-site fine-tune. A clean lesson in foundation models for the physical world.
humanoidMLrobots - ·7 min read
The Humanoid Race Is Real. The Headcount Is Still Small.
Figure, Agility, and Boston Dynamics are on real factory floors. Tesla’s million-unit line is not producing yet. How to read 2026 without the hype reel.
humanoidSaaSrobots - ·6 min read
The App Store Hit an AI Supply Shock
New subscription apps went from 2,000 a month to 14,700. AI titles earn more per payer and churn faster. A builder’s guide to surviving the glut.
SaaSmobileAI - ·5 min read
Non-Games Finally Out-Earned Games in the Stores
Sensor Tower’s State of Mobile 2026: $167B in IAP, non-game spend passed games, and generative AI apps cleared $5B. What that does to mobile SaaS.
mobileSaaSAI - ·6 min read
Usage-Based SaaS Is Eating the Seat License
Thirty-eight percent of new SaaS contracts now include consumption. Copilots are sold as digital labor. How to price a product when the unit is a token or a task.
SaaSAIpricing - ·6 min read
Horizontal SaaS Is Getting Squeezed. Vertical Agents Are Not.
AI-native startups and bundled platform copilots are crushing mid-market tools. The remaining oxygen is deep workflow, proprietary data, and a job only one industry has.
SaaSAIproduct - ·6 min read
Why I Still Train Small Models That Fit in a Pocket
Frontier agents are getting cheaper. Phones still win on latency, privacy, and cost at the edge — the same reasons humanoid labs are racing to run policy on-device.
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