The Brains of the Operation

One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has long been great at storing, retrieving, and sharing a company’s knowledge. This is most SaaS apps, from Slack to GitHub to Notion. But as easy as it is to store information, it’s hard to measure its accuracy. Or gauge its importance. Or promptly act on it. Or extract useful observations from an ocean of disorganized crap. Thus, most information goes unused. Heck, most information goes unrecorded. So it’s been for many years. Agents on the brain A big upshot of the past year’s tooling improvements is that more information is worth recording and acting on. AI-native teams are shifting away from Notion and Google Docs, toward more agent-friendly formats like Markdown for their business’ docs. They’re storing more info in team-accessible locations, and using it to move faster with agents. A key contributor to the growing hype around this shift is Y Combinator. With the release of gbrain, a…