MONDAY · SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 PM Intelligence

Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: Making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all

Since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has delivered more than 80 releases that drastically speed up JavaScript compilation, linting, and testing. From a 10x faster React compiler to Vite+ 1.0, here’s how we are building faster tools for developers and AI agents.

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Product

Aha! Blog

The failure of entrepreneurs is our greatest strength

Brian de Haaff considers what we risk losing when we stop valuing entrepreneurship — from new ideas and economic opportunity to individual agency.

Lenny's Newsletter

How tech workers feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey

Recognize that half of your team may be struggling with burnout and uncertainty, necessitating a shift towards more empathetic management practices. Prioritize regular check-ins and support systems to foster a healthier work environment and retain talent.

Lenny's Newsletter

Jev for beginners: How to use it and what to build

Watch now (26 mins) | 🎙️ Jev returns type-safe structured values instead of text, which makes it the fastest, cheapest classification layer I’ve ever put in a pipeline—and this week I shipped three real projects with it

Engineering

InfoQ

Presentation: Context Engineering at LinkedIn: Building an Organizational Context Layer for AI_agents_with_MCP

Ajay Prakash discusses how LinkedIn overcomes AI agent limitations in large codebases. He explains Contextual Agent Playbooks and Tools - built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) - which serves procedural memory, code search, and runbooks directly to coding agents. Prakash shares architectural details and operational guardrails that deliver a 20% prod…

InfoQ

Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise Deployments

Standard chaos engineering assumes experiments stop cleanly, blast radius is knowable in advance, and production is fair game. Payment systems violate all three. Salim Adedeji describes ECS-specific failure modes from enterprise deployments: a 60-second DNS TTL that produced 93-second failover, retry logic amplifying database load 2.4x, and AZ reba…

Cloudflare Blog

How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.

Strategy

CB Insights

Executive Interview: Gotomarket

Denis Bogdanovich, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Gotomarket, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We built B2B Go-To-Market … The post Executive Interview: Gotomarket appeared first on CB Insights Research .

Tomasz Tunguz

Harness Margin Opportunity

A UC Berkeley study finds the harness sets the price of an answer : GPT-5.6 Sol costs 71% less on Pi than on Claude Code, the same model returning the same result, & none of the 42 harness comparisons shows a statistically significant quality difference. Two startups bidding on the same $250k contract earn 38% & 75% gross margins depending on what …

CB Insights

CEO Interview: 12x AI

Greg Fields, CEO of 12x AI, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We’re tackling the global mental health … The post CEO Interview: 12x AI appeared first on CB Insights Research .

AI & Research

Wired (AI)

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

OpenAI Blog

How We Built a Realtime System for Responsive Voice AI in Six Months

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.