Notes from the Appsurd team on AI-native engineering, agentic workflows, fast shipping, and the messy reality of building software products in 2026.
From a 165-page essay to a $45 billion AI hedge fund to a forced fire sale to Citadel in a single week — the whole story, explained from zero, plus the one lesson about leverage that matters more than being right.
Read post →Anthropic's new coworker agent is genuinely good — and permanently capped by whatever Claude can do this week. Model-agnostic wrappers like Viktor and Perplexity Computer don't have that ceiling. That gap is the whole game.
Read post →Being the best frontier lab and the best consumer product are two different games. Why distribution and deeply user-oriented design — not the model — decide who wins the end user, and why model-agnostic wrappers like Perplexity and Manus are built to win it.
Read post →A build playbook for shipping a specialized AI agent — with its own inbox, phone number, and Slack seat — modeled on Viktor but going deeper into one money-making function: accounts receivable.
Read post →A short note on why we built Appsurd, what "absurd" means to us, and what you can expect to find on this page over the coming months.
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