I'm always baffled how most investors seem to obsess over top revenue growth numbers these days and seem to take that as a universal prediction of future success in AI. Maybe we're finally starting to get back to more sanity with more nuanced thinking about moats, quality and
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Interesting Recent Open Source Projects: Mirofish, Paperclip, Hermes Agent, AutoResearch
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Top stories in tech today: – Big Tech spends $226K a day to lobby Congress
– Meta and Microsoft are slashing thousands of jobs – Tesla is spending $25B to reinvent itself
– Instagram tests a stripped-down Snapchat rival
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Banking Partnership Expansion Plans Announced for 2026
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Together, we plan to expand the partnership into additional banking workflows over time. Learn more:
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ElevenAgents Extends Conversational Support With AI
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As customer expectations shift toward conversational, always-on support, they chose ElevenAgents to extend that model into support channels without compromising the experience quality that earned that loyalty.
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Customers Bank Deploys AI Agents for Customer Support Services
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Customers Bank will roll out a series of AI agents, including:
– A 24/7 voice and chat support agent for account inquiries, card services, and transfers across phone, web, and mobile
– An onboarding agent that guides new customers through account setup
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AI Agents Enable 24/7 Customer Service With Human Escalation
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Customers will get faster answers, shorter hold times, and access to the same quality of service at 10pm as at 10am. Every agent will be built with human escalation paths, ensuring a person is always one step away when the conversation calls for it.
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ElevenAgents Partnership with Customers Bank Announced
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We’re partnering with Customers Bank – a $25 billion-asset US bank with a Net Promoter Score nearly double the industry average – to deploy ElevenAgents across their customer and employee operations.
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Rapid Code Development Leads to Long-term Maintenance Problems
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The vibe coders finding out the hard way is already happening. The projects that looked done in 2 minutes are the ones generating the maintenance nightmares six months later.
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GPT-5.5 Users Compared to Outdated COBOL Programming
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The people still on GPT-5.5 are basically running COBOL.
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AI Dramatically Lowers Software Engineering Entry Barriers
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Yeah, this – more than anything else – will tremendously lower the barrier to entry into SWE for the vast majority of people. Perhaps the single biggest value in having fully AI development workflow.
