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Knowledge base

“A Guide to Agent-native Product Management” by Marcus Moretti/Guides: Marcus Moretti runs Spiral as a one-person team. This guide walks through the two new compound engineering skills that make it possible: /ce:strategy, which interviews you to produce a strategy document, and /ce:product-pulse, which replaces your analytics tools with a founder-style analyst briefing that saves to a folder as your product’s running memory. Read this to set up both commands for your own product and understand how they plug into the broader plan-ship-review loop. Plus: The one thing Marcus still writes himself is the roadmap. Read the accompanying essay for his full workflow, plus his two-part test for which SaaS products will survive the agent era.

“You Are the Most Expensive Model” by Mike Taylor/Also True for Humans: Most teams are routing entire workflows through frontier models when cheaper, faster alternatives would do the job just as well. The real cost isn’t the tokens—it’s your attention. Mike Taylor introduces incremental determinism: a four-level framework for deciding which tasks deserve Opus and which can be handed to Haiku, a script, or no model at all. Read this to know exactly which lever to pull when your AI costs start to add up.

“One App to Rule All Knowledge Work” by Katie Parrott/Context Window: Austin Tedesco now runs 80 percent of his daily workflow through Codex, a tool he called “trash” for non-engineers just months ago. Plus: why Austin reviews every agent output in its destination app, a prompt for letting agents design their own automations, and how to use Every’s compound knowledge plugin to catch confidently wrong data before a plan gets enacted.

“Compute Is the New Cash” by Laura Entis/Context Window: On AI & I, Emily Glassberg Sands, head of data and AI at Stripe, talks to Dan Shipper about how agents are becoming economic participants—and why fraud is now a full-funnel problem, not just a checkout one. Plus: GitHub and Anthropic are both moving to usage-based pricing as flat-rate subscriptions break down under agentic workloads; Dan and Kieran Klaassen offer contrasting takes on whether you should talk to your agents or just let them work; and Naveen Naidu‘s three-step workflow for turning post-launch customer feedback into a product queue. 🎧 🖥 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on X or YouTube.

“Who Isn’t Using GPT 5.5” by Laura Entis/Context Window: One week after GPT-5.5’s release, the Every team checks in: Kieran is now splitting his time evenly between Codex and Claude Code, but Natalia Quintero ran a head-to-head proposal test and her Claude agent won. Plus: why six unicorn CTOs have stepped down to become Anthropic ICs; how Kieran hit 24 pull requests in a single day by having agents watch user complaint videos overnight; and Willie Williams on why AI has turned coding into a slot machine—and how to know when to walk away.