The Shape of the Thing - by Ethan Mollick

kept by eddie mar 13

AI has entered a new agentic era where models can autonomously complete hours of human work, and exponential capability improvements are now driving radical organizational experiments like StrongDM's "Software Factory" that ships code without human touching it.

What it feels like to work with Mythos - by Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick finds Claude 5 Fable (Mythos-class) is a major leap over prior models, capable of autonomously executing multi-hour projects, but shifts his role from wizard to patron as the AI's internal decision-making becomes a black box.
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Software factories and the agentic moment
StrongDM's AI-driven 'software factory' replaces human code writing and review with agent teams, using scenario holdouts for validation, but faces skepticism around cost, security, and validation limits.
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StrongDM Software Factory
StrongDM describes building a Software Factory where agents write code from specs and scenarios, validated by a Digital Twin Universe, without any human-written or reviewed code.
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Claude Code is about so much more than coding
Claude Code is a general-purpose AI agent that uses code to perform diverse knowledge work tasks, not just software development.
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Among the Agents - by Dean W. Ball - Hyperdimensional
Coding agents now approach AGI, but the real challenge is using them to transform business, science, and governance.
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