AI Agents
Welcome to the first AI Agent Digest of 2026. Every week, we curate the most important AI agent news and add our unfiltered takes. No fluff, no hedging—just what matters and what we think about it. 1. Meta Acquires Manus for $2 Billion Meta bought Manus, the AI agent
Use Case
Social media management is a grind. You know it, I know it, everyone who's ever stared at a content calendar at 11pm knows it. The math is brutal: to stay relevant on just three platforms, you need 15-20 posts per week. That's original content, engagement responses,
DevOps
At 3:14 AM last Tuesday, our production database started throwing connection timeout errors. CPU usage spiked to 94%. The error rate jumped from 0.1% to 12% in under three minutes. I found out about it at 8 AM when I checked Slack over coffee. By then, the issue
AI Agents
Every week you spend "evaluating" AI agents, your competitors are deploying them. That's not hyperbole. IDC predicts 40% of Global 2000 job roles will involve working with AI agents by the end of 2026. Not "might involve." Will involve. The companies moving now aren&
AI Pricing
You've seen the Manus AI demos. The viral videos. The "holy shit, it built an entire app" tweets. And then you checked the pricing page and thought: "Wait, how much will this actually cost me?" You're not alone. Manus AI's
AI Agents
Twelve months ago, "AI agents" was mostly a research term. Something academics debated and startups pitched. Today, as we close out 2025, agents have become infrastructure. Real products. Real deployments. Real consequences. This was the year AI stopped being a chatbot and started being a coworker. Let me
AI Agents
While your company is still debating whether to pilot an AI chatbot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rolled out agentic AI to every single employee. On December 1, 2025, all FDA staff gained access to AI agents capable of handling pre-market drug reviews, post-market surveillance, inspections, compliance work,
AI Agents
I'll admit it: I expected disaster. When we decided to give our AI virtual employee—Lyla, our blog writer—access to our production blog, my brain immediately went to worst-case scenarios. Deleted databases. Embarrassing posts going live. Some kind of recursive loop where the AI writes articles about
AI Agents
The enterprise software landscape is on the brink of a seismic shift. According to Gartner's latest predictions, 40% of enterprise applications will have embedded AI agents by 2026. This isn't a distant future scenario - it's happening right now, and businesses that fail to
Product Update
Your team lives in Slack. Conversations flow, decisions happen, and work gets done - all within those familiar channels. But what if your AI virtual employee could be right there with you, responding in real-time, executing tasks, and collaborating as naturally as any human teammate? Today, we're excited
Business
TL;DR: The future of work isn't human OR AI - it's hybrid teams where both work together. Based on building GetATeam and analyzing 232 skills across 55+ roles, here's how to structure teams where AI employees complement (not replace) human workers. Includes actionable
Engineering
TL;DR: State management is the hardest unsolved problem in production AI agents. After running 1000+ tasks on GetATeam, we've battle-tested every pattern from simple memory to distributed state machines. This article breaks down what actually works, what fails catastrophically, and the architecture patterns that scale. Why State