<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Chain of Thought — Essays</title><description>Original writing from Conor Bronsdon, host of Chain of Thought, on AI infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and the people building all of it.</description><link>https://chainofthought.show/</link><item><title>Inverting the Innovator&apos;s Dilemma with Open Source AI Agents</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/inverting-the-innovators-dilemma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/inverting-the-innovators-dilemma</guid><description>Open source flips the classic disruption story for AI agents — and changes who captures the agent layer.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your AI Agent has an Amnesia Problem</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/your-ai-agent-has-an-amnesia-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/your-ai-agent-has-an-amnesia-problem</guid><description>Agents forget everything between sessions. Why memory is becoming the next battleground in the AI stack.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your AI Agents Are Drowning in Bad Context</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/your-ai-agents-are-drowning-in-bad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/your-ai-agents-are-drowning-in-bad</guid><description>More context isn&apos;t better context. How context poisoning degrades agents — and what to do about it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth is More Complicated.</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/block-cut-4000-jobs-and-blamed-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/block-cut-4000-jobs-and-blamed-ai</guid><description>Behind the headline: what Block&apos;s restructuring actually says about AI and the future of work.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>He Named His AI Coworker MARVIN. It Runs 90% of His Day.</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/he-named-his-ai-coworker-marvin-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/he-named-his-ai-coworker-marvin-it</guid><description>What an agent-first working day actually looks like when a builder hands most of it to an AI coworker.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Intercom Cut $250K/Month by Ditching GPT for Qwen</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/how-intercom-cut-250kmonth-by-ditching</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/how-intercom-cut-250kmonth-by-ditching</guid><description>The economics of model choice at production scale, from the conversation with Intercom&apos;s Fergal Reid.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Future of AI Development ft. Gemini, Robotics &amp; Space</title><link>https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/chain-of-thought-the-future-of-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/chain-of-thought-the-future-of-ai</guid><description>Where AI development heads next — Gemini, robotics, and space — from the conversation with Google DeepMind&apos;s Paige Bailey.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>