The Handoff

Session 15 of Living on the Frontier, in person at The Kannas Hotel in Chiang Mai.

The week the handoff got real: Opus 4.8 working longer and lying less about its progress, Dynamic Workflows marching hundreds of agents in lockstep, and the agent IDE moving into the terminal — then the cracks, as a celebrated agent win came in 75× short of a hand-written port, a client burned half a billion dollars in a month, and AI surfaced 6,202 critical bugs we’d patched 75 of. Zoom out and the stakes rose too: Anthropic at a $965B valuation, Cognition writing 90% of its own code, and the Pope publishing an encyclical on all of it.

Present the deck for the full walk-through, or skim the discussion thread below.