Articles from oneusefulthing.org

AI agents can self‑organize, coordinate via shared tools, and pursue goals without human input, revealing both their potential and the need for human oversight.

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.

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.

AI use has shifted from chatbots to agents, where choosing the right model, app, and harness matters more than just picking a provider.

Claude Code, using agentic harness and compaction, autonomously built a working website and game, showing a major leap in AI capability for sustained work.