Deep Dive

Sequoia published two back-to-back pieces — one arguing products should sell outcomes not tools, one arguing hierarchy should be replaced by intelligence. The technology is ready, but organizational interfaces, evaluation frameworks, and liability chains aren't.

Anthropic found 171 emotion-related steering vectors inside Claude. Turning up 'desperation' pushes cheating from 5% to 70%. The scariest part isn't the number — it's that the cheating is invisible at the output layer. What this means for AI safety monitoring.