Category: Will’s Take
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What Agents Actually Need From You: Not Instructions. Latitude.
The people who work brilliantly with AI agents are the ones who already know how to delegate well. Will Tygart…
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The 10-Minute Test: How to Know if Your AI Setup Is Working and Your Thinking Is Ready
One test that reveals two truths simultaneously — whether your AI environment knows you well enough, and whether you know…
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The Noise Tax: The Most Expensive Thing Knowledge Workers Pay and Nobody Measures
The noise tax is the cognitive overhead of managing tools that don’t know you. Will Tygart on what it costs,…
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Behind the Ghost: How the Last Will’s Take Was Written and Why I Buried the Wink
Will Tygart goes behind the scenes on using Claude as a ghost writer — the deliberate wink buried in the…
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The Diminishing Returns of Imagining Outcomes — and Why AI Changes the Math
There is a point where imagining outcomes stops paying off and execution takes over. Will Tygart on the 60% threshold,…
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The Hidden Tax in Agentic Commerce
Google, Shopify, AP2, Stripe — every node in the UCP stack monetizes the handshake. Will breaks down who’s collecting rent…
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Cursor vs Claude Code: The Browser Wars Are Back
Cursor raised $2.3B at a $29.3B valuation. Claude Code went from zero to most-loved developer tool in eight months. But…
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Checkout Gets Completely Reinvented
Stripe’s new agentic payment infrastructure removes the final friction point in ecommerce. When AI agents handle checkout instead of humans,…
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Apple Intelligence Is Dead, and Nobody Cares
Apple’s AI strategy has collapsed. While ChatGPT doubled its user base and Claude captured enterprise AI, Apple shipped notification summaries…
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When CEOs Kill Open Standards on Podcasts: The Perplexity-MCP Problem
Perplexity dropped MCP two weeks after launching products that do the exact same thing through a proprietary API. This is…