Declining gracefully

If you’ve got an agent set up but haven’t really used it yet, the weekend’s a good time to think about what you do every day that’s a bit repetitive. Checking the same few sites each morning, copying info from one app to another, that kind of thing. Usually there’s at least one you could hand over.

“You are an expert” at the start of a prompt is the “Dear Sir or madam” of 2026

Scorpion stings kill more than 3,250 people a year, mostly children, and there’s little money in new treatments. Claude spent 64 hours designing proteins to bind the toxins, and 17 bound their target in lab tests.

Worth the wait

A few people on the team have sent me the same article about Meta’s Muse Wonder today. It remembers what matters to you across conversations, and when a task gets hard, it keeps going, tries another way and recovers from mistakes. Is this a hint?

Nobody talks about how hard it is to name your agent. I’m going to be talking to this guy every day, this is more serious than naming a pet

Peak productivity

I just realised I make most of my buying decisions based on what an AI tells me now. And it's just repeating what it read on Reddit.

The 3 growth channels founders sleep on (and why): 1. Replying, not posting. Everyone grinds on their own feed shouting into the void. The real reach is in the replies under bigger accounts in your space. Borrowed audience beats no audience. Founders skip it because it feels less like "their" content. 2. AI answers. When someone asks ChatGPT "best tool for X," something gets recommended. That's the new search bar. Founders sleep on it because it's invisible; you can't see the traffic, so nobody optimizes for it. 3. Communities where people ask for recommendations. The highest-intent buyers alive are the ones literally typing "what should I use for this." Founders skip these places because they're scared of coming off as spammy, so they leave free, ready-to-buy demand on the table.

Nobody's short on content. Everyone's short on trust.

I just realised I don't trust reviews on a company's own site at all. But 4 people agreeing in a Reddit thread? Sold.

How to write a Reddit comment people actually upvote: - answer the question in the first line - be honest, even about where your product falls short - skip the link - sound like a person, not a brand

Everyone says do Reddit. Nobody says how. So most people do it once, get nuked, and give up.

What people get wrong about Reddit karma: they think it's meaningless. It's actually what decides whether you can post at all, whether people trust you, and whether your stuff gets removed.

New on the Reddit agent we're building: workspace integration. Daily opportunities arrive in your inbox as drafted replies, already approved. All that's left is to post.

I just realised I now read Reddit threads "for work" and genuinely mean it. This is my life now.

Marketing advice is just 47 people confidently telling you to do the exact opposite of what the last person said.

I've started telling time by what our founder is doing. It's 1PM in Paris, so Coop's having dinner in Hong Kong. This is what a fully remote team does to your brain.

Everyone's arguing about whether AI agents replace jobs. The real shift is quieter: they replace tasks. All the boring, repetitive things you already hate doing.