long-form analysis on ai, the agentic economy, and the coachella valley.
Claire Vo filtered Anthropic's developer conference down to five things builders can act on today. Here's what each one means for founders and operators in the Coachella Valley.
The a16z optimists are probably right that AI won't eliminate work in aggregate. They're glossing over where the new jobs appear — and where they don't.
Claire Vo filtered Anthropic's Code with Claude conference down to five announcements builders can act on today — routines, outcomes, multi-agent orchestration, Dreams memory, and why the usage limit increase is underrated.
Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. Meta employees torched 60 trillion tokens in a month. The headlines are real. They also aren't about you.
OpenAI shipped Workspace Agents on April 22. Here's what they actually are, why the chatbot-to-agent shift matters, and how to get started before pricing kicks in May 6.
Naval Ravikant joined a $500-minimum venture fund with Anthropic and OpenAI in the portfolio. The access argument is real. The local ownership problem it exposes is realer.
OpenAI launched a workflow tool for individual clinicians, not a diagnosis engine. Why the Coachella Valley's independent practice density makes this more relevant here than most markets.
The middle ground in the Coachella Valley economy is disappearing. We are currently leaning into the cost side of the AI split, and local leadership is miscalculating the velocity of the fall.
Sarah Guo's "socially durable" frame is the right standard for AI adoption in communities like ours. Making responsible and ethical AI practice the default isn't a constraint on progress — it's what makes progress stick.
OpenAI's industrial policy paper proposes public wealth funds, automated labor taxes, and worker voice in AI deployment. What it means — and why the Coachella Valley isn't in the conversation yet.