TLDR 2026-10-02

State of Product reveals what AI still hasn't solved (Sponsor)

80% of product professionals say AI helps them ship faster, but customers aren't seeing value any sooner. Atlassian's State of Product 2027 explores the gains AI is delivering and the challenges that remain, from decision-making that hasn't kept pace to gut instinct overriding customer evidence.

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Big Tech & Startups

Starlink 'Community Site' Program Teases Hourly, Weekly Internet Passes (2 minute read)

Starlink plans to offer hourly, daily, and weekly passes for its satellite internet service. The company is recruiting 'hosts' to sell passes to interested consumers. Pricing details have yet to be released. Starlink will take care of payments, user access, and connectivity while the hosts focus on setting up their sites and earning from connections.

Why Muse May Never Need Ads (13 minute read)

Meta is one of the very few companies that can monetize a personal agent through advertising without ever showing an ad inside the agent itself. The company can keep ads out of the Muse app and still get paid for it on Facebook and Instagram. Every Muse errand can be an incremental signal. Meta can indirectly monetize Muse until enough demand has been aggregated for it to start with direct monetization.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

World's first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (2 minute read)

Fervo Energy has started selling electricity from its Cape Station geothermal power plant. It is the first enhanced geothermal company to reach a key commercial milestone. The entire site has the potential to generate as much as 4 gigawatts of electricity. The first block at the site took 23 months to complete - Fervo aims to complete future blocks in as little as 18 months.

With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time (6 minute read)

NASA's Probe Explorers are a new line of observatories intended to do more science for less money. The project aims to seek a better balance between the smaller Explorer missions and multibillion-dollar flagships. NASA announced on Wednesday it was moving forward with the first of the Explorers, PRIMA (Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics). PRIMA will observe the universe in faint, far-infrared light in a range of wavelengths between 24 and 235 micrometers. NASA intends to launch the telescope in 2033.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate (15 minute read)

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, recently announced that 37signals, a company known for its software craft, was done with writing code by hand. The maturation of AI tools has made it possible for the company to embrace a future where coding by hand is almost entirely absent. AI creates new business models and revenue streams and disrupts traditional software. Companies are now investing in innovation and are willing to pay top-of-market for software engineers who can help them build AI products or become AI-native.

Pi Durable (33 minute read)

Pi Durable is an experimental package built specifically for long-running, durable, and malleable agents that can run anywhere. It can run anywhere, can be reached from different surfaces, supports infinitely long conversations, survives catastrophic internal and external failures, and lets multiple humans steer the same agents. It is a framework for building any agentic application, including coding agents.

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Miscellaneous

Product Manager, Applied AI at TLDR ($225k base + $60k bonus, Fully Remote)

TLDR is hiring its first PM to help build the agent-first operating layer used across the company. We're looking for a builder who has shipped real products/systems with LLMs. Click here to learn more.

Xbox's Millennial CEO Isn't Playing Around (13 minute read)

Asha Sharma, the 38-year-old chief executive of Microsoft's Xbox division, wants Xbox properties to entertain a billion people. This means opening untapped markets in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia by using cloud computing technology to run games on computers and smartphones. Another pillar of her strategy is to reinvest in Minecraft as a competitor to Roblox. Leaders at the company describe the future of its consoles as embodying that idea.

The Dot and the Swarm (11 minute read)

AI is still too limited to substitute for large amounts of human work. However, organizing agents is no longer the hard part. Agents may be easier to integrate into firms than expected, as long as humans are guiding them in the right direction. This could mean more work for people, not less.

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Quick Links

Invest in the Flying Car Company Before Share Price Changes on 10/23 (Sponsor)

16,000+ investors have put $45,000,000+ into Doroni, maker of the H1-X flying car, after a decade of R&D. First deliveries are targeted for 2028, in a market Morgan Stanley projects at $9T by 2050.

Invest at $3.30/share before 10/23

Broadcom Starts Amassing $60 Billion to Fund Chips for Anthropic (2 minute read)

The potential deal will help Anthropic and other companies access chips and other key infrastructure.

The inevitability of local stablecoins (9 minute read)

For stablecoins to become the new backbone of the financial system, the mix of volumes passing through them will have to converge to those of traditional finance.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake (8 minute read)

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL users can now directly query operational data together with data stored in their data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats using existing PostgreSQL applications and tools.

Your agent session transcripts are precious, keep them (9 minute read)

Transcripts record what agents were asked and what they did, so watch them for early warning signs.

Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform (10 minute read)

Clef and Clef-flash are fully Jev-API compatible decision models that help agents programmatically gather context, make decisions, and take actions on tasks.

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy (8 minute read)

arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month, with a limit of three total active submissions at any given time.

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