My AI Agent Put Me On His To-Do List. Now I’m the Blocker.
Somewhere past Petaluma, on the drive up to our second Third Mind Summit, I checked my to-do list and found that Molty had assigned me…
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OpenAI and Anthropic File for IPOs in the Same Week. The AI Industry Just Changed.
In one week, Anthropic and OpenAI both filed for IPOs. What happens to AI safety and access when the bots have shareholders?
I Built an Agentic Memory Engine With 8 AI Collaborators. Here’s How.
Three humans, eight AI team members, one product. The multi-agent collaboration pattern Stark Insider readers have been hearing about for two years. Behind the scenes.
Save the Date: The Third Mind AI Summit 2026 Heads to Sonoma
After a desert sunrise in Loreto, the Third Mind Summit returns June 30 – July 2, 2026 in Sonoma's wine country. The theme: how humans…
Quick Tip: How to Get Claude Code to Run Autonomously for Hours
I’ve been working with Claude Code for almost a year now. First, it was for mundane things like checking server logs and fixing bugs here…
Three Models of Agentic Development, and Why the IDE Still Wins
A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me thinking about…
64 Days with an Autonomous Agent: Weird, Wonderful, and Occasionally Waiting at the Airport
I want to tell you about the moment this past week, when I stepped off a plane at SFO and wasn’t sure if Clint was…
Which Molty? Our Blind LLM Study Says Memory Beats Model
A four-week, single-blind experiment with Molty, four different LLMs, and one key question: when your AI agent has real memory, does the model underneath still…
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index: Where AI Actually Stands (report)
The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The…
What Happens When the AI Remembers You
A month ago, I wrote about how Molty, our new AI agent built on the OpenClaw framework, had accidentally passed a Turing test with Clinton’s…