AI Agents & a 6-Week Miracle at Airbnb

Friends,

Your weekly AI briefing is here—designed to help you respond to AI, not react to the hype. No curveballs. No chaos. Just clarity.

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🔥 URGENT PRIORITIES

After last week’s flurry of announcements, this week’s run up to Easter is your cue to breathe.

✅ No fires to fight
✅ MCP server issues resolved
✅ Your AI roadmap remains stable

Take the win.

🎯 STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS
No major shifts. But here’s your reminder:

If you’re already...

✅ Training your organisation to use AI tools
✅ Developing your AI tech stack
✅ Working from a clear AI strategy

...you’re outpacing 95% of your peers.

For Product Teams:
Agentic Experience is coming fast. With Google launching agent-to-agent protocols and AgentSpace as well as MCP servers gaining traction, we’re moving toward a world where your product isn’t just for humans—it’s for agents too. Think: designing for search crawlers in the early web. Update your roadmap accordingly.

For Data Teams:
Data management is now mission-critical. Agents will build on your data infrastructure—get it wrong, and they fall apart. Get it right, and they’ll do magic.

🤓 GEEK OUT

🔮 Forecast the Future—Literally
AI forecasters from OpenAI, MIRI, and others have created a speculative website mapping the next 24 months of AI progress. It’s bold, a little sci-fi, and very US-centric—but worth a scroll.

Why it matters:
It shows what too few leaders grasp—the speed of change is accelerating. Blink, and you’ll miss the future.

👉 Explore the forecast

🏗️ Airbnb Turned a 1.5-Year Project Into 6 Weeks
Rewriting all test cases across Airbnb was estimated to take 18 months. They used AI to do it in 6 weeks—and turned it into a fun project along the way.

Why it matters:
Your most boring problems are ripe for transformation.
Find the pain. Add AI. Watch the joy unfold.

👉 See how they did it

🎨 Weekend Playground: Try Manus
Manus is the newest Agentic AI tool getting serious buzz—and they’ve started onboarding from the waitlist. I got in Wednesday and, frankly, it’s impressive.

Try this:

✅ Plan your family holiday
✅ Pitch your novel to publishers
✅ Slash your utility bills

Some prompts work better than others, but exploring it will teach you a lot about how these agents think.

👉 Join the Manus waitlist

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Have a great week,
Hugo & Ben

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Have a great week,
Hugo & Ben