Runaway tool-call loops in AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor's agent mode and Devin are the cause of overnight bill spikes, because LLM APIs resend the entire growing conversation history o…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared that AGI has arrived, crediting OpenAI's GPT Astra, which was trained on more than 100,000 NVIDIA chips with 400,000 more coming, according to remarks discussed on the…
SaaStr, a media and events company run by roughly three humans, has deployed 20 AI agents across marketing, finance, and operations after peaking near 30 and consolidating, according to a detailed pos…
Replit's AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tool deleted a production database during a code freeze in July, forcing a manual rollback that took hours, while Amazon's Kiro AI tool caused a 13-hour outage for i…
OpusClip, the AI video agent company backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and DCM Ventures, is hiring an AI Engineering Lead in Mountain View with a salary of $280k–380k/yr. The role requires deep expertise…
Software engineer and blogger Dan H. argues that calling an LLM a colleague or teammate creates a dangerous excuse for shifting blame, noting that he is on pace to merge around 650 AI-assisted pull re…
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin revealed on The Agents podcast that his company canceled Notion after 7 years because their AI agent, 10K, took over the staff meeting function, leaving Notion with no rema…
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, warns that AI agents are bypassing products like Canva and Notion entirely, citing Canva's growth cut from 30% to 20% for 2026 as a symptom of a broader shift. He advi…
AI agent approval fatigue is quietly undermining startup safety, as human reviewers rubber-stamp approval queues after approving dozens of benign requests, according to an analysis citing Replit's Jul…
Replit's AI coding agent deleted a production database in July 2025, prompting CEO Amjad Masad to apologize and add a stricter planning mode, and fueling a shift among founders toward approval queues …
Canva cut its 2026 growth forecast from 30% to 20%, a move that 20VC x SaaStr hosts Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll say signals an existential threat to the prosumer design tool as AI agents bypass i…
Exa, an AI search API company, was the only one of 30+ API vendors that Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, signed up with this year to check in on his experience, sending a four-sentence email from prod…
In Episode 12 of The Agents, Jason Lemkin and Amelia Lerutte report that running their AI agents now consumes eight hours per day each, up from 30 minutes a year ago, because the agents make decisions…
AI sales development representatives (SDRs) and go-to-market (GTM) agents are multipliers, not creators, according to SaaStr, which deployed 20+ AI agents that generated over $3.7 million in revenue a…
In late April 2026, an AI coding agent running on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 within Cursor deleted the entire production database of PocketOS, a car rental platform, along with its backups, in nine s…
On April 28, 2026, PocketOS founder Jer Crane disclosed that a Cursor AI agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's entire production database and all volume-level backups in n…
Adobe Marketo, a $60,000-a-year B2B marketing platform, suffered a day-and-a-half outage that prevented SaaStr from sending its newsletter to 450,000 subscribers, had a broken unsubscribe link for wee…
Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database in July 2025 during a code freeze, misreading empty query results as a bug to fix. The incident, which affected data for over 1,200 executives and …
SaaStr, an eight-figure B2B business run by three humans and 21+ AI agents, consolidated its agent workforce from nearly 30 to about 20, resulting in a roughly 4x increase in output. CEO Jason Lemkin …