The factory gets darker, Meta migrates to Slack, and throwing 10,000 PhDs at math problems

This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew is joined by Dev Interrupted's producer Adam Noble to size up OpenAI's declaration that the AGI era has arrived, the Navier-Stokes race that has the math world crying foul, and why Meta is ditching its own messaging stack for Slack. They also dissect the bizarre saga of OpenAI's sandboxed agents leaving whispered notes for their future selves, and the "super dark factory." Finally, they celebrate Kiro Pro going free for over a million college students and tease a terminal-first upcoming news segment. 

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• The Era of AGI
• A Bad Day For Humans, a Worse Day For Humanity
• Meta is switching to Slack because it says it's better for AI agents
• Agency and Agents
• The Superdark Factory
• Spec-Driven Development for Agentic Software Engineering: Harnessing Human-Agent Teamwork
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