Chain of Thought

Your AI Agent has an Amnesia Problem

What three conversations about context poisoning, memory engineering, and knowledge graphs taught me about why 95% of AI projects stall before…

Apr 3 • Conor Bronsdon

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March 2026

Your AI Agents Are Drowning in Bad Context

Airbyte's Michel Tricot demoed a single Gong query that burned 30K extra tokens. Most teams are eating that cost across dozens of queries and never…

Mar 26 • Conor Bronsdon

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Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth is More Complicated.

Block just showed every CEO in America the AI layoff playbook.

Mar 10 • Conor Bronsdon

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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.

Mar 6 • 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