Three next moves, three Deep Dives, four Quick Hits. OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 and doubles the price. Microsoft puts Copilot Agent Mode in every Office app. Adobe rebrands its entire Experience Cloud around AI agents. Anthropic admits Claude got dumber for six weeks. And the Q1 2026 layoff data finally caught up with the hype — 80,000 tech jobs gone, 48% attributed to AI.
This week on Rogue Agents:
1. The frontier model fight — GPT-5.5 vs Claude 4.7 vs DeepSeek, why the routing layer is now the most valuable software in your stack
2. The agent layer goes production — Microsoft Copilot Agent Mode GA, Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker, MCP and A2A as the new LAMP stack
3. The labor math catches up — 80K Q1 layoffs, Goldman's 16K-jobs-per-month run rate, why freezing entry-level hiring now creates a 2031 leadership-bench problem (Mark joins this one)
Plus four Quick Hits: DeepSeek's new flagship, AMEX acquires Hyper, the Google Cloud + NVIDIA superstack, and the Anthropic quality bug nobody wants to talk about. Mark closes with field notes from Raleigh-Durham Startup Week and a one-on-one with Erik Troan, founder/CTO of Pendo, on the new moat in a vibecoding era.
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