The Maestro Brief Archive
- 2026-08-02Your fastest useful model may beat your smartest one
Once several models are good enough, latency and end-to-end workflow speed become product decisions—not benchmark trivia.
- 2026-08-02The moat may be the judgment loop, not the model
A founder-focused argument says durable AI value may accrue to the systems that capture expert verification, not merely model access.
- 2026-07-30GPT‑5.6 gets dramatically cheaper. That changes the background-agent math.
OpenAI cut GPT‑5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%, while adding a faster premium mode for Sol.
- 2026-07-29The AI-tool adoption problem is trust, not training
AI coding tools change quickly, but teams adopt them only when the surrounding process makes their output predictable and accountable.
- 2026-07-27Claude Code can turn /init into code execution—when the guardrails are already off
An independent experiment shows how untrusted repository content can steer a highly autonomous coding agent toward remote code execution.
- 2026-06-26Private MCP servers become reachable without becoming public
OpenAI described a secure tunnel for connecting private MCP servers to OpenAI products without public exposure.
- 2026-06-23Claude Tag brings a proactive Claude into team chat
Anthropic launched Claude Tag in Slack for team delegation, scoped memory and scheduled work.
- 2026-06-15The state of agentic coding: prompts matter less, experience matters more
A Google Cloud developer advocate reflects on planning, context engineering, skills and the persistent value of engineering experience.
- 2026-06-11Zed thinks the future of version control lives between commits
Zed introduced DeltaDB, a versioning system that records agent conversations alongside fine-grained code changes.
- 2026-05-19Local models are good enough to own the boring 60%
Zed explains where local models help, where they fall short and how to run them in the editor.
- 2026-01-12Watch: Getting started with Codex, from install to MCP
OpenAI’s official Codex walkthrough covers installation, AGENTS.md, prompting, MCP, headless mode and the SDK.