Next Wave of Tech — surf reports, demo reels and bootlegs by James Lane

Turn the Lights On Before the Factory Starts

For the first time in over a year, an Anthropic model isn't in my daily rotation

The war for your attention

We kept rejecting code that worked

AI is breaking engineering teams. We think we have the answer.

We moved review to the plan. Here's what happened to our numbers.

I ran Cursor's cloud agents for a week. They saved me time and money

Where do juniors learn when agents write the code?

I'm a product manager. My code merges without an engineer reading the diff

How I used Claude and a systematic template approach to generate 1,100+ hours of writing in just 3 days