⚡THE READ · ARCHIVE← today's read
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THU · AUG 20Prompts are dead. No wait, loops are dead. No wait.Quick recap of the summer: prompts are dead, buy the loops course. Loops are dead, buy the graphs course. We checked with people who actually run these tools instead of writing about them. They never got invited to the funeral. Too busy complaining about bills and breakage, same as every month. Keep your prompts. Cap your spend.
TUE · AUG 18Grok 4.6 is everywhere this week. Except in what actual users are saying.Grok 4.6 launched Wednesday and the newsletters lost their minds. The read pool didn't. Grok's file is the thinnest of any major assistant, and in the reads captured since the launch, actual users barely mention 4.6 at all. Test free if you're curious. Switch nothing this week. Recheck Aug 31.
TUE · AUG 11The #1 complaint about every connector tool: it stops connecting.Every connector tool draws more complaints than praise on reliability. All of them. Zapier can't buy a kind word on price either. The least-bad pick is n8n, and even that one needs a babysitter.