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Daily AI strategy and news for the AI curious, builders & executives. I'm Nate B. Jones, a 20-year product leader, AI strategist, and your guide through the noise. Most AI content is hype or generic advice. I cut through both with frameworks and workflows you can use immediately. Whether you're an executive making AI decisions or a builder implementing solutions, you'll get practical guidance, tested in real organizations. New videos every day on YouTube. Deeper analysis + exclusive playbooks → https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- Yesterday11 min
The Harness Is the Business: Inside the OpenAI and Anthropic IPO Bet
OpenAI filed to go public, and the headline question is whether the company is worth a trillion dollars. What kind of business the market is trying to value?In this executive briefing, I break down the four stories inside OpenAI's valuation: software, utility, infrastructure, and deployment. The episode explores why compute costs matter, how revenue quality changes the multiple, and why the hardest part of the AI market may be installing intelligence inside real organizations.Hosted on Acast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 days ago11 min
OpenAI IPO: Own the Harness, Not the Model
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening inside the OpenAI and Anthropic IPO story?The common story is that public markets are pricing better AI models — but the reality is that investors are also betting on the work layer around those models.In this episode, I share the inside scoop on the trillion-dollar AI bet:- Why cheap tokens alone do not capture the value- How harnesses turn raw intelligence into real work- What forward-deployed engineering reveals about deployment- Where companies should own the AI work layerFor operators, builders, and executives, the takeaway is direct: using AI tools is useful, but durable leverage comes from owning the harness around the model.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 4 days ago19 min
Codex Guide for Non-Coders: Catch Up in One Weekend
Read the full post on Substack: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/Codex is changing how I work because it is not just giving me better AI answers. It is letting me hand real computer jobs to an agent: find the files, read the transcript, compare versions, render the artifact, check the result, and keep going until there is something real to inspect.In this episode, I walk through why the unit of work is changing, how my token dashboard became a receipt for agentic work, and why threads, goals, computer use, plugins, and skills matter for people who do knowledge work outside of code. The practical takeaway is simple: pick one annoying and valuable loop, give Codex sources, standards, boundaries, and proof, then learn how to verify what came back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 6 days ago16 min
Claude Code vs Codex: Steer or Dispatch Your AI Agents
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when people argue about Claude Code versus Codex?The common story is that this is a coding-tool matchup — but the reality is that each interface trains a different way of working with agents.In this video, I share the inside scoop on why Claude makes steering agents feel natural, why Codex makes dispatching agents feel natural, and why the skill of 2026 is agent literacy.Why the Claude versus Codex question is usually framed wrong How agent tools teach habits, not just features What Claude is better for when the work is fuzzy Where Codex shines when the work can become a delegated job Why the human role becomes judgment, proof, and tasteIf you manage knowledge work, build with AI, lead teams, or just want to understand where agents are going, the shift is not only which model is smarter. The shift is what work you can now imagine assigning, reviewing, and trusting.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago21 min
Build a Token Burn Dashboard to Track What Your AI Actually Does
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when people brag about burning AI tokens?The common story is that token burn is waste, a status flex, or just another confusing AI metric - but the reality is that it can become a feedback loop for delegated intelligence, better AI habits, and faster learning.In this video, I share the inside scoop on building a token burn dashboard and what it taught me about using AI well.Why more agents and more tokens can lead to better answersHow a usage dashboard turns scattered work into a learning loopWhat top token days reveal about real AI fluencyWhere public charts and shared accountability make people better togetherWhy the next edge is not just using AI, but studying how you use itIf you are an operator, builder, marketer, executive, or anyone trying to get more value out of AI, the shift is simple: stop treating usage as a vanity metric and start treating it as evidence you can learn from.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago26 min
Opus 4.8 Won Our Benchmark. I Still Wouldn't Use It For Everything.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening with Opus 4.8, Claude Code, and the AI model race in 2026?The common story is that a stronger model automatically becomes the default tool — but the reality is that harnesses, compute, reliability, and workflow design now matter just as much as raw model capability.In this episode, I share the inside scoop on why Opus 4.8 is a strong but complicated release, why it is not automatically my daily driver, and why Codex currently fits certain long-running agent workflows better.Why Opus 4.8 reads more like a checkpoint release than the Mythos moment people expectedHow reasoning effort can become unpredictable when a model overthinksWhat a harness is, and why it now decides daily-driver behaviorWhy Claude Code's /workflows command is a real agent-pattern innovationWhere knowledge workers and engineering leaders should focus in the second half of 2026This matters for builders, executives, CTOs, CIOs, and operators trying to decide where to place AI budget. The practical question is not which model wins forever. It is how you architect your work so you can route tasks to the model and harness that best drive the outcome.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
Prove Your Value at Work in the AI Era: Judgment Artifacts
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI makes everyone's work look polished?The common story is that AI makes people more productive -- but the reality is that it also makes old evidence less trustworthy.In this episode, I share the inside scoop on how to prove you are good at work when outputs are easier to generate than ever.Why portfolios are no longer enough on their ownHow whiteboard-style conversations reveal judgmentWhat situation, decision, risk, and change show about real workWhere Talent Board-style evidence fits into careers and hiringHow to make your reasoning visible without over-performingIf you hire, manage, build, or are trying to grow into a new role, the shift matters: the scarce signal is no longer just what you produced. It is whether people can see how you understood the problem, handled tradeoffs, and improved the work.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago5 min
How I AI: My Weekly Codex Experiments
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI stops being a chat box and starts becoming a working context system?The common story is that better prompting is about clever wording — but the reality is that the work is moving toward cleaner context, better task shape, and agents that can stay oriented through long runs.In this video, I share the inside scoop on how I'm using AI this week: assembling context windows, using Codex on local files, and shifting from prompt engineering into collaborative task definition.Why local folders can become clean context windows How Codex changes long document, spreadsheet, and code workflows What changed in prompting after agentic workflows got better Where Claude still fits for polish, salience, and design Why multi-threaded drafting now feels practicalFor operators, builders, marketers, and executives, the important shift is not just which model wins. It's learning how to structure the work so the model can help you think, execute, review, and iterate.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
About AI News & Strategy Daily with Nate B. Jones
Daily AI strategy and news for the AI curious, builders & executives. I'm Nate B. Jones, a 20-year product leader, AI strategist, and your guide through the noise. Most AI content is hype or generic advice. I cut through both with frameworks and workflows you can use immediately. Whether you're an executive making AI decisions or a builder implementing solutions, you'll get practical guidance, tested in real organizations. New videos every day on YouTube. Deeper analysis + exclusive playbooks → https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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