Chain of Thought

He Named His AI Coworker MARVIN. It Runs 90% of His Day.

Sterling Chin didn't automate his job. He automated the parts that weren't worth his time.

23 hrs ago • Conor Bronsdon

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February 2026

How Intercom Cut $250K/Month by Ditching GPT for Qwen [Chain of Thought]

The counterintuitive findings from scaling Fin to 1M+ resolutions per week

Feb 26 • Conor Bronsdon

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January 2026

The Future of AI Development ft. Gemini, Robotics & Space [Chain of Thought]

Google DeepMind's Paige Bailey on Gemini 3, vibe coding, and why the next frontier is "bits to atoms"

Jan 20 • Conor Bronsdon

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September 2025

What Atlassian's $1B DX Acquisition Means for the Developer Productivity Market

Atlassian's AI platform play, how DX went $5M to $1B, and what this means for LinearB & other AI code review players

Sep 24, 2025 • Conor Bronsdon

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Why 95% of AI strategies are just expensive theater

Why execution beats strategy in AI, startups, and everything else (according to new MIT data)

Sep 2, 2025 • Conor Bronsdon

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October 2024

The Rise of Tireless Digital Employees

Why AI Agents Will Transform Work, Like It or Not

Oct 22, 2024 • Conor Bronsdon

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October 2023

The Problem with Perfectionism

Or why we all need to get over it and publish a shitty first draft.

Oct 10, 2023 • Conor Bronsdon

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January 2023

The tech FOMO bubble has officially burst

Or why private tech companies are letting go thousands of employees

Jan 17, 2023 • Conor Bronsdon

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December 2022

RIP Revue

Long live Substack (and this newsletter)

Dec 28, 2022 • Conor Bronsdon

November 2022

FTX crash, in person podcasts & Twitter on 🔥

What a week it's been. If you're at all active on the internet or following business news, you've likely seen:Crypto exchange FTX has collapsed with an…

Nov 14, 2022 • Conor Bronsdon

June 2022

How to lose $400k overnight

When last I emailed, I'd just gone through the strange experience of going mega-viral on Twitter - and things haven't slowed down since!

Jun 11, 2022 • Conor Bronsdon

March 2022

🤯 30 million people saw my tweet this week

It's been a very strange week. I've been hard at work on multiple podcasts and the INTERACT conference for the last two months. I thought this last week…

Mar 27, 2022 • Conor Bronsdon