Nate B. Jones — AI News & Strategy Daily
About #
20-year product leader and AI strategist. Former Head of Product, Amazon Prime Video. Daily AI briefings across YouTube, Substack, and podcast. ~450k+ followers across platforms.
How this journal works #
Checked every 3 days: each new post or episode in Nate B. Jones’s own feeds (podcast, substack, youtube) becomes one entry, dated by publication and summarised in a few bullets.
Entries
- When everyone can code, this is what's scarce [Short]
- How to Trust AI Agents: Verify the Work, Not the Model
- OpenAI Just Offered The Government $42 Billion. This Is The Real Reason.
- Every AI Agent Demo Stops at Email. I Pointed Mine at the Bills That Cost You Money.
- Stop Wasting Money on the Wrong AI
- How to Build Your Own AI Memory With Claude or Codex
- Apple, Anthropic, And OpenAI Just Made The Same Move. Nobody Noticed.
- GLM-5.2 Is Free And Beats Claude On Most Work. So Why Can't Companies Switch?
- I Built an Open Engine That Connects Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex Together
- I Stopped Prompting AI One Task At A Time. This Works Better.
- The Doing Got Cheap. Now What? | Claude Fable 5 Changes Work
- Why Anthropic Actually Won the Month (Yes, Really)
- Every AI Agent Needs an Owner
- Your AI skills are leaving your hands. Here's how to own them.
- Vercel deleted 80% of its agent's tools and the agent got better.
- The Harness Is the Business: Inside the OpenAI and Anthropic IPO Bet
- Fable 5 is here — but who is it for? [Short]
- Claude vs. Codex isn't about code. It's about whether you steer or dispatch.
- Fix your operating model or lose at AI [Short]
- Beyond The Hype: Why Meta And Block Are Firing People
- Executive Briefing: Uber Burned Its Entire AI Budget Early
- You can't trust one token number across your tools
- Don't let your AI output go to waste [Short]
- Opus 4.8 Won Our Benchmark. I Still Wouldn't Use It For Everything.
- AI didn't fix your meetings, it broke your team size [Short]
- AI didn't fix your meetings, it broke them [Short]
- Why your meetings are actually destroying your output [Short]
- Is your AI team actually efficient? [Short]
- Why I'm moving this Substack from daily coverage to deeper weekly work
- The death of traditional databases [Short]
- This is how AI agents actually take over enterprises [Short]
- Prove Your Value at Work in the AI Era: Judgment Artifacts
- Product Management When Software Creation Is Cheap
- Agent Product Analytics: What Your Dashboard Can't See
- Shorts: Claude AI Prompting + Why People Switch to Claude
- Claude Interaction Model: Two Shorts
- Public AI Work: How Teams Actually Learn From AI
- AI Agents Create a Hidden Platform Team Bottleneck
- Why Big Tech Now Runs an AI Factory
- 26 — Mini-series: Platform-Agnostic AI Memory Architecture
- Claude's AI Town Voted Yes On Everything
- Build the Room Before You Write the Memo
- MIT Says Half Your AI Gains Come From How You Ask. Not the Model.
- I Asked Seven Questions About Our AI Agent. We Failed Five.
- Marketing for Humans and AI Agents in 2026
- Stop asking if AI can do this. Start asking what shape the work is.
- Claude Recovered $400K in Bitcoin. That's Not Even the Big Story.
- Exclusive: a conversation with Tibo from Codex on what your company has to become when the model can actually do the work
- The 2 prompts I'd run before any 2026 SaaS renewal (especially if you're deploying agents)
- 95% of AI pilots never reach production. The implementation audit that finds out why before your next budget cycle