# The Secret Agent

> Weekly briefings on AI Agents and Robots. See what's coming before the market does. Trusted by 12,000+ builders and investors funding the $10T Machine Economy.

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## Posts
- [Secret Agent #46: SaaS is being gutted.. for agents ](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-46-saas-is-being-gutted-for-agents): Agents are eating SaaS whole. Plus: why Claude's new ceiling matters.
- [Secret Agent #45: From OpenAI fired to 20x](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-45-from-openai-fired-to-20x): He bought power plants instead of Nvidia stock. Plus: AI agents that don't forget, and Yann LeCun's case against LLMs.
- [Secret Agent #44: Two robots walked into a room..](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-44-two-robots-walked-into-a-room):  Plus: one dev rewrote 960,000 lines in 6 days, and AMD just locked up 12 GW from OpenAI and Meta.
- [Launching: The Chokepoint ](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/launching-the-chokepoint): A new weekly read on the AI's real bottlenecks. Free, every Tuesday.
- [Secret Agent #43: A Harvard lab just shut down to fix agent memory](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-43-a-harvard-lab-just-shut-down-to-fix-agent-memory): Plus: Figure's "iPhone 1 moment", the data center crunch, and a free AI infrastructure map.
- [Secret Agent #42: Sequoia says stop selling software](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-42-sequoia-says-stop-selling-software): Instead, we should start selling outcomes
- [The AI Infrastructure Bottleneck Index](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-ai-infrastructure-bottleneck-index)
- [Secret Agent #41: The Hidden Fragility Behind AI Agents](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-41-the-hidden-fragility-behind-ai-agents): Poisoned training data, Claude’s leaked orchestration layer, and the simple agents quietly making real money.
- [Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-40-the-breaking-point): INSIDE: A new AGI benchmark resets the gap and agents start to get gaslit.
- [Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-39-the-new-ratio): INSIDE: 100 agents per human and one costly suggestion breaks production.
- [Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-38-autonomous-conflict): INSIDE: AI breaches McKinsey and accelerates its own research.
- [Secret Agent #37: War Replay](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-37-war-replay): INSIDE: Agents track conflicts and build tiny computers.
- [Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-36-robot-resum): INSIDE: Agents apply for jobs and wipe out inboxes. 
- [Secret Agent #35: The Ascent](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-35-the-ascent): INSIDE: Agents design spacecrafts and prove new mathematics.
- [The AI Agent Handbook is Live](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-ai-agent-handbook-is-live): A quick primer on AI agents.
- [Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-34-escalation-phase): INSIDE: Agents write smear campaigns and enter live military operations.
- [Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-33-the-agent-view): This week humans worked for agents, trained them in dream worlds, and still can't identify them.
- [The Closed Loop Advantage in AI](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-closed-loop-advantage-in-ai): Why the most powerful AI companies might not be the ones with the best models.
- [Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/secret-agent-32-doomsday): INSIDE: A personal AI melts into the real world and agents start plotting against 
- [The Dexterity Stack: Why Robots Lose to Towels](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-dexterity-stack-why-robots-lose-to-towels): Intelligence lives at the point of contact.
- [Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-secret-agent-31-agent-democracy): INSIDE: Agent swarms shape elections and white-collar work meets its intern.
- [Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/agent-angle-30-kill-switch): INSIDE: Agents enter war rooms and and maps get taught to reason.
- [Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/agent-angle-29-the-edge-case): INSIDE: An agent out-iterates 800 humans and The Turing Test gets a revamp.
- [The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-agent-angle-28-authority-drift): INSIDE: An agent fires a coworker and traffic enforcement moves onto a helmet.
- [README.ai: 2 Jan 2025](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/readme-ai-2-jan-2025): All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes
- [README.ai: 30 Dec 2025](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/readme-ai-30-dec-2025): All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes
- [The 2026 AI Playbook](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-ai-map-for-2026): A distilled roadmap from 1,436+ frontier conversations by top investors and builders.
- [The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-agent-angle-27-the-christmas-heist): INSIDE: The Grinch hacks agents and and the moment shopping leaves Amazon.
- [README.ai: 27 Dec 2025](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/readme-ai-27-dec-2025): All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes
- [README.ai: 23 Dec 2025](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/readme-ai-23-dec-2025): All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes
- [The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible ](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/the-agent-angle-26-the-gullible): INSIDE: A vending machine breaks by social engineering and SaaS meets its match.
- [K-Scale: The Team That Tried to Beat Tesla](https://agents.chainofthought.xyz/p/k-scale-the-team-that-tried-to-beat-tesla): Lessons on the fragile economics of open-source humanoid robots