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Unfiltered takes on the AI hype cycle: what's load-bearing, what's scaffolding, and what actually ships. Written by Jordan Kwan, who builds Reachium.
Everyone Is an AI Company Now, Which Means Nobody Is
I counted the word 'AI' on 19 major SaaS homepages: median 27 mentions, max 106. When two rivals are both 'the only' AI platform, the label has stopped carrying information.
5 min · Jul 21, 2026
I Checked 20 Agent Frameworks for a Published Support Window. Zero Have One.
None of the 20 agent frameworks I swept publishes a version-support window or an end-of-life date, and 19 of the 20 are governed by a single vendor.
Cloudflare Splits Search, Agent and Training on September 15. I Read 40 robots.txt Files: 5 Sites Make That Split Themselves.
Cloudflare's new default hits new domains on ad-monetized pages, not the whole web. The bigger shift is that blocking agents specifically becomes a checkbox, and only 5 of the 38 sites I could fetch already treat an agent differently from a scraper.
I Read 17 Agent Frameworks' Multi-Agent Docs. Three Cap the Cost. None Undo the Actions.
The one systematic study puts 44% of multi-agent failures on specification and design, not model quality. I checked what 17 frameworks document against it: 11 name a stopping rule, 3 name a cost ceiling, and none names a way to undo what the agents already did.
I Dated Every Benchmark in Five 2026 Launch Tables. The Median Is Nine Months Old.
Across 54 distinct benchmarks named in frontier launches between June and August 2026, I could date 25. Their median age on launch day was 9.1 months, and 29 had no dated public artifact at all.
I Read the Terms for 19 AI Agent Products. Zero Indemnify You for What the Agent Does.
Across 19 readable terms documents, not one indemnity names autonomous decisions and not one gives the customer a right to decision logs or a kill switch.
I Read the Terms of 13 AI Note-Takers. Nine Make Consent Your Problem. Zero Indemnify You.
Nine of 13 meeting-AI vendors contractually assign recording consent to the customer, and not one of the 13 indemnifies that customer against a privacy or wiretap claim.
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