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Secret Agent #41: The Hidden Fragility Behind AI Agents

Apr 7, 2026

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7 min read

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.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

Mar 30, 2026

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13 min read

Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

INSIDE: A new AGI benchmark resets the gap and agents start to get gaslit.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

Mar 23, 2026

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14 min read

Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

INSIDE: 100 agents per human and one costly suggestion breaks production.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

Mar 16, 2026

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15 min read

Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

INSIDE: AI breaches McKinsey and accelerates its own research.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #37: War Replay

Mar 9, 2026

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14 min read

Secret Agent #37: War Replay

INSIDE: Agents track conflicts and build tiny computers.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

Mar 2, 2026

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15 min read

Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

INSIDE: Agents apply for jobs and wipe out inboxes.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

Feb 23, 2026

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16 min read

Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

INSIDE: Agents design spacecrafts and prove new mathematics.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

Feb 16, 2026

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16 min read

Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

INSIDE: Agents write smear campaigns and enter live military operations.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

Feb 9, 2026

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13 min read

Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

This week humans worked for agents, trained them in dream worlds, and still can't identify them.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

Feb 2, 2026

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13 min read

Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

INSIDE: A personal AI melts into the real world and agents start plotting against

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

Jan 26, 2026

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12 min read

Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

INSIDE: Agent swarms shape elections and white-collar work meets its intern.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

Jan 19, 2026

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13 min read

Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

INSIDE: Agents enter war rooms and and maps get taught to reason.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

Jan 12, 2026

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13 min read

Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

INSIDE: An agent out-iterates 800 humans and The Turing Test gets a revamp.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

Jan 5, 2026

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13 min read

The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

INSIDE: An agent fires a coworker and traffic enforcement moves onto a helmet.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

Dec 29, 2025

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13 min read

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

INSIDE: The Grinch hacks agents and and the moment shopping leaves Amazon.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

Dec 22, 2025

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14 min read

The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

INSIDE: A vending machine breaks by social engineering and SaaS meets its match.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #25: Touching Reality

Dec 15, 2025

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12 min read

The Agent Angle #25: Touching Reality

INSIDE: An AI out-hacks Stanford’s security and AI learns to use your phone.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #24: Real Stakes

Dec 8, 2025

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13 min read

The Agent Angle #24: Real Stakes

INSIDE: An agent deletes a life’s work and GPT is better than... VCs?

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #23: New Frontlines

Dec 1, 2025

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13 min read

The Agent Angle #23: New Frontlines

INSIDE: Police starts deploying triage agents and Poetiq’s tiny team redraws the AGI frontier.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #22: Shadow Learning

Nov 24, 2025

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11 min read

The Agent Angle #22: Shadow Learning

INSIDE: An AI out-researches human experts and MIT trains an agent to build 3D models with CAD.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #21: Silent Operators

Nov 17, 2025

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12 min read

The Agent Angle #21: Silent Operators

INSIDE: Claude runs an AI-native cyber attack and Windows tries to reinvent itself as an agentic OS.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #20: The Divide

Nov 10, 2025

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10 min read

The Agent Angle #20: The Divide

INSIDE: : Amazon sues a rogue shopper, and Microsoft’s market of AIs collapses on itself.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #19: Parallel Motion

Nov 3, 2025

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11 min read

The Agent Angle #19: Parallel Motion

INSIDE: Dimensional gives the world a command line and agents get their own OS.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #18: The Trial

Oct 27, 2025

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11 min read

The Agent Angle #18: The Trial

INSIDE: Karpathy calls agents slop and Claude learns new skills.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #17: First Awakening

Oct 20, 2025

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12 min read

The Agent Angle #17: First Awakening

INSIDE: OneLife learns about a universe in one shot, and Agents start inventing new languages.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan
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