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Hey,
Welcome to The Pulse: Edition #3.
Last week, we watched agents build their own social network on Moltbook.
This week, the humans finally panicked.
One blog post about "the end of work" got 80 million views.
People are screaming that their careers are over.
But while Twitter was melting down, the real shift happened quietly.
Agents aren't just chatting anymore.
They are taking shifts.
They are committing code while we sleep.
Here is the signal for the week of Feb 8 to Feb 15, 2026.
A guy named Matt Shumer broke the internet this week.
He posted an essay comparing this moment in AI to February 2020.
He claimed the new GPT-5.3-Codex makes his technical work obsolete.
He warned that white-collar automation is here. Right now.
The post got over 80 million views.
Then the backlash started.
Fortune called his assumptions "flawed."
Kotaku pointed out he is a serial hype-man with a history of exaggeration.
Everyone is arguing about the messenger.
But here is the truth:
The post was hype. But the trend is real.
It doesn't matter if Shumer is exaggerating.
The panic he triggered proves that deep down, everyone knows the score.
The models are getting too good to ignore.
Why this matters:
Most people are freezing up because of the fear.
They are arguing on X instead of building.
That is a losing strategy.
The panic is a signal that the tech is working.
→ The Move: Stop reading the "end of work" think pieces. Pick a tool. Learn it. The only way to lose is to do nothing.
2. Your New Dev Team Is A Cron Job
Cursor isn't playing fair anymore.
They just ran a massive experiment with autonomous coding agents.
They let these agents run for a full week without stopping.
The result?
Over 1,000 commits per hour.
This isn't just an autocomplete suggestion.
They used a "recursive planner" architecture.
A Lead Planner agent understands the whole project.
It hires "Sub-planners" to break down tasks.
Then "Worker" agents write the code.
It is an org chart in a box.
A University of Chicago study backs this up.
Companies merge 39% more pull requests after switching to this agent mode.
Why this matters:
We are moving from "Copilot" to "Autopilot."
You are no longer the coder.
You are the Engineering Manager.
If you are still writing syntax by hand, you are wasting your time.
→ The Move: Download the new Cursor update. Enable "Agent Mode." Give it a task that usually takes you 4 hours. Go get a coffee. Let it fail, then coach it. Do not write the code yourself.
3. Microsoft Just Lost PowerPoint
For years, Microsoft Office was a walled garden.
Copilot was the only AI allowed inside.
And honestly? Copilot in PowerPoint has been terrible.
Anthropic just kicked down the door.
They released Claude as a native add-in for PowerPoint.
It doesn't just summarize text.
It reads your slide masters.
It understands your brand fonts and colors.
It builds fully editable, native slides inside the app.
At the same time, Claude in Excel got upgraded to Opus 4.6.
It can now handle pivot tables and conditional formatting.
Microsoft MVPs are admitting it publicly: Anthropic is beating Microsoft on their own home turf.
Why this matters:
You don't have to wait for your IT department to fix Copilot.
You can use a better brain inside your daily apps right now.
The monopoly is over.
→ The Move: Install the Claude for PowerPoint beta add-in. Feed it a 10-page doc and ask for a 5-slide deck using your company template. Watch it work.
The Lightning Round
• OpenAI Frontier is here. They launched a platform to deploy agents as "production coworkers." It hooks into Salesforce and Snowflake. Fortune says it might kill SaaS platforms like Workday. (Source: https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/openai-frontier-ai-agent-platform-enterprises-challenges-saas-salesforce-workday/)
• Devin now works on a schedule. You can set up Cognition's coding agent to run on a cron job. Hourly, daily, or weekly. Agents now have shifts. (Source: https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview)
• ChatGPT Deep Research got smarter. You can now edit the research plan before it starts. You can also force it to look at specific websites. It is less like a search engine and more like an analyst. (Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-deep-research-now-lets-you-pick-sources-adds-built-in-documents)
• Goodbye, GPT-4o. On Feb 13, OpenAI retired the GPT-4o and 4.1 models. The GPT-5 family is now the only game in town. The era of 2024 AI is officially dead. (Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-richardson-70687910_openai-gpt53-agentai-activity-7425940757947195392-Lblu)
What's Happening This Week
If you want to build this stuff with people who are actually doing it, come hang out.
Agent J Skool Community (Free to join):
• This Tuesday: The Builder's Hour. We are building a new workflow live.
• This Wednesday: Vibe Code Session. Taking an app from idea to live product using Lovable/Bolt.
• This Thursday: AI Prompting Masterclass. Learn to write prompts that actually work.
Webinars:
• This Thursday (11 AM EST): The LinkedIn Growth Hack. How I went from 900 to 45k followers. Free. Register here: https://luma.com/vy5zevqh
• This Friday (2 PM EST): Build Your First AI Agent in 5 Minutes. Only 50 spots. Register here: https://luma.com/x1zljxjb
If you want to learn AI automation with a community of builders, join Agent J on Skool — it's free.
The Sunday Action Plan
Install Claude in PowerPoint. Stop fighting with text boxes. Let the AI do the formatting.
Test "Manager Mode." Take one coding task this week and refuse to write a single line. Force Cursor or Devin to do 100% of it.
Audit your calendar. Look for one recurring task that happens every week. Ask yourself: "Can a scheduled agent do this?"
The Bottom Line
The internet loves to panic.
Let them panic.
While they argue about the future, you can build it.
The tools are ready. The agents are waiting.
Put them to work.
See you next Sunday,
John
P.S. Reply "AGENT" and I'll send you the exact workflow I use to build an AI agent in 5 minutes.