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You Can't Compete on Cheap Models Anymore
Full post: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/beyond-model-routing?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Everyone in AI is saying the same thing right now: route your work to cheaper models. It's the right call β and it's about to be table stakes, which means the rea

Free Fable 5 tokens this weekend? Here's how to max them
Fable 5 is the AI model everyone's racing to max out this holiday weekend, but most people are pointing it at the wrong work. Here's how to get results that actually stand out. My Links π ππ» Newsletter: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ ππ» X: https://x.com/natebjones ππ» TikTok: https://w

Every AI Agent Demo Stops at Email. I Pointed Mine at the Bills That Cost You Money.
Build your reusable agent: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/reusable-ai-agent?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true AI agents usually get rebuilt from scratch for every new job. Here's how to build one reusable AI agent for messy, high-trust paperwork -- insurance

Stop Wasting Money on the Wrong AI
Full model routing guide: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/which-ai-model-to-use?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Every AI model suddenly looks replaceable, and picking the right one has turned into a second job. This video is a practical model picker: how to

I Built My Own AI Memory by Talking to Claude. It Did 80% Itself.
The Full Open Stack Guide: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/build-your-own-ai-memory?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true AI agents can now build most of your own AI memory stack for you, just by talking to Claude or Codex. This is how to build a personal agent th

Apple, Anthropic, And OpenAI Just Made The Same Move. Nobody Noticed.
Full post: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-race-context?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Frontier AI just hit a speed bump. The real story isn't which lab has the smartest model. It's who controls the context that makes any model useful: your files, your S

GLM 5.2 Is Free And Beats Claude On Most Work. So Why Can't Companies Switch?
Full post: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/glm-5-2-context-lock-in?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true GLM 5.2 is a free, open-source model that often beats Claude on everyday work, yet companies still pay frontier prices. The real bottleneck is no longer the mo

I Stopped Prompting AI One Task At A Time. This Works Better.
Full post w/ Questionnaire: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-loop-managers?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true AI agents get useful when you stop prompting one task at a time and start building loops. A loop is a recurring job that remembers, notices what chang

The Doing Got Cheap. Now What? | Claude Fable 5 Changes Work
Full post w/ Work Spec + Benchmarks: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/claude-fable-5-how-to-use?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Claude Fable 5 is the biggest model in the world, and the real story isn't the benchmarks. It's that the bottleneck just moved from

Google Lost $2.7 Billion In Talent This Week. The Real Reason Isn't Money.
OpenAI vs Anthropic: OpenAI looks like it won the week β the Shazeer hire, the 5.6 rumors, the Fable headlines. But talent movement and pre-training cadence suggest Anthropic may actually be ahead, and the biggest AI story may be happening at neither lab. My Links π ππ» Newsletter: https://natesne

You Can't Run AI Agents Without This
Full briefing w/ Agent Owner Card: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-agent-ownership?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true AI agent ownership is the skill most teams skip in 2026. Once an agent reads real files and does real work, somebody has to own it, and most

You Can't Tell If I'm Real Anymore. And That's Now YouTube's Problem Too.
Newsletter: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ AI voice cloning is already good enough to fool a half-watching audience. The harder problem is that people can no longer tell what was human, what wa

Your AI Skills Are Trapped | Here's How to Own Them
Full post w/ The Complete Open Skills Guide: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/claude-codex-agent-skills?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Your AI agent finally wo

Don't build more AI agents until you watch this
Full post with Agent Maintenance Guide: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-agent-maintenance?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true OpenAI and Anthropic aren't the on

Your $20 AI Plan Costs Them Thousands. That's Not The Bubble.
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OpenAI Just Filed For Its IPO. The Real Story Isn't The Trillion Dollars.
The Full Deep Dive: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/openai-ipo-own-the-harness?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true My Links π ππ» Newsletter: https://natesnewsle

The End of Unrestricted AI: Why Claude Fable 5 Was Just Forced Offline
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Codex: Your First Personal AI Agent Delegation Loop
My Ultimate Codex Guide: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/codex-guide-no-code?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true β Catch up on a year of AI in one Codex weekend. Y

Apple WWDC 2026: The AI Story Everyone is Missing
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Stop Coding. Start Steering. Claude vs Codex
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Beyond The Hype: Why Meta And Block Are Firing People
For 50% off a yearly subscription ($250 β $125) to my Substack head to: https://www.natebjones.com/the-path-forward What you get access to: β One guide, build, or tool every week that helps you build

My Codex Ran 800 Million Tokens in A Day. The Real Story Isn't Cost.
Token Burn Dashboard Guide: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/token-burn-dashboard?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true My Substack covers: β A step-by-step guide to

Opus 4.8 Scored 81. Your Workflow Doesn't Care.
Full post here: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/opus-48-benchmark-model-selection?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true My Substack covers: β Every test, scored and

AI didn't fix your meetings, it broke your team size #productivity
My site: https://natebjones.com Full Story w/ Prompts: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/executive-briefing-ai-raised-output?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true ____




















































