Episode 294:00
AI Tools of 2026: What Survives
The thesis behind the Resources drop: which AI tools outlive the hype cycle, and the test each KAIRO engine had to pass.
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Show Notes
Segments
- 00:00 — The graveyard: three waves of AI tools that demoed brilliantly and died quietly.
- 13:00 — The survival test: does it remove a decision, or just generate more material to review?
- 27:30 — Applying the test to KAIRO''s ten engines — what passed, what got rebuilt, what got killed.
- 39:40 — The 2026 picture: fewer tools, deeper wiring, outcomes over outputs.
Key takeaways
- Tools that create work for the user are demos; tools that remove work are products.
- Survival correlates with integration depth, not model quality.
- The ten engines in Resources each had to answer: whose Tuesday does this shorten?