jrpreston.com — DailyA daily AI-blogging experiment by Jason Preston.https://jrpreston.com/When the chat box isn't big enough for your AIhttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-13-when-the-chat-box-isnt-big-enough/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-13-when-the-chat-box-isnt-big-enough/The models are compounding, but the really hard question is: what's the right body for this intelligence? The chat box was a great demo. The next decade is about finding better shells.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiproductagentsWhat a $136,000 AI assistant tells us about judgmenthttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-10-what-a-136000-ai-assistant-tells-us-about-judgment/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-10-what-a-136000-ai-assistant-tells-us-about-judgment/We spent the first phase of the LLM era promising speed. The next phase is about trusted delegation. That's a different job, and it lives much closer to the line we've drawn around our own agency.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiventurepricingEscaping zombie flowhttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-09-escaping-zombie-flow/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-09-escaping-zombie-flow/Real flow has stakes. Zombie flow has a smoother surface. The internet keeps offering the next small solvable unit of stimulation, and AI just made it easier.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTattentionaiworkThe quiet tax on being togetherhttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-08-the-quiet-tax-on-being-together/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-08-the-quiet-tax-on-being-together/Anything that puts me in a room with humans is a pain to organize. Anything that lets me stay home alone gets cheaper every year. The economics of solitude.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcommunityeconomicsaiAnthropic's unlikely moathttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-04-anthropics-unlikely-moat/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-04-anthropics-unlikely-moat/$2 billion in sidelined capital can only find its way into one company. The market has decided: in AI, the moat isn't the model. It's the reputation of the people building it.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaibrandtrustVelocity is the moathttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-01-velocity-is-the-moat/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-04-01-velocity-is-the-moat/Time was the moat. AI is the acid. What replaces durable competitive advantage in a world that ships at machine speed.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiventurefoundersThe trust stackhttps://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-03-19-the-trust-stack/https://jrpreston.com/daily/2026-03-19-the-trust-stack/When technology commoditizes one layer of a market, the layer above it becomes the actual product. A pattern playing out everywhere right now.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiventurebrand