Show notes
This week, we discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare's CF CLI, Gartner's agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers. Plus, Coté forgets his laptop.
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Runner-up Titles:
• Cables only
• Blame it on AI
• We’re outcome-focused here
• I brought CSV to the masses
• The King of Google
• Product Manager for Markdown
• Just give me an API
• The Word Race
• Unqualify yourself
• I'll Ride the AI Hype Cycle to Markdown Support
• Forward Deployed Field CTOI
• You Are the API
• Agent Product Management
• Money Can Be Exchanged for Goods and Services
• Brandon's the Travel Dad
Rundown
• Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.
• Agent-Friendly APIs
• Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
• Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
• Your app’s frontend UI is now optional
• The Agents Are Among Us - Tao of Mac
• Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker
• Redis Iris | Redis
• OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for AI agents
• The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady
• Headless CRM.
• Forward-deployed engineers and the enterprise AI ROI question
• The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
• Gartner: 70% of enterprises will abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028
• McKinsey: The State of AI in 2026, On the Road to ROI
• Thorsten Ball: The future of software development
• AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says
• Rogue agents: who is liable when the AI breaks containment?
• OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
• OpenAI pauses training after agents probed US government sites
• OpenAI shelves new AI model after internal safety tests, WSJ reports
• Wikimedia: OpenAI-linked agents made millions of unauthorized requests
• Lawmakers: AI firms should be liable for their models’ actions
• NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform
• New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok
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