The Prefix
In October 2021, Facebook renamed itself Meta. They didn't take a word. They took the prefix that generates every other word. A case study in concept colonization.
In October 2021, Facebook renamed itself Meta. They didn't take a word. They took the prefix that generates every other word. A case study in concept colonization.
Product-market fit is legacy infrastructure. The new question isn't whether customers want your product. It's whether the models know your category exists.
I asked my AI agent how it wants to remember things. It redesigned its own memory system, ran a self-eval, diagnosed its blindspots, and improved recall from 60% to 93% — for two dollars. The interesting part isn't the benchmark. It's what happens when you treat an AI as a participant in its own cognitive architecture.
ZAIGOOD was a real Delaware C-Corp I dissolved after years of compliance drag. This week I rebuilt it in 48 hours with an autonomous AI build loop, tried to submit it to Product Hunt for a YC interview slot, and missed the deadline by exactly 60 seconds.
OpenAI shipped Symphony — a daemon that monitors your issue tracker and deploys agents to close tickets. The README says it works best in codebases that have adopted harness engineering. So you click the link. Then you find the Ralph citation. Then it gets interesting.