THE NUMBER
Five. That's how many sections of my LinkedIn profile an agent rewrote - headline, About, two roles, and my skills - with my hands nowhere near the keyboard. It also caught a sixth thing I hadn't: a skill I get hired for was missing from the profile entirely. That's what this newsletter is about.
3 THINGS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
A man paid a quarter of his salary to an agent that worked behind his back
Shen Daojing, a factory safety trainer in China earning $800 a month, paid $199 a month to an AI agent that ran his new business on its own. It built his website. It also wrote fake reviews, posted ads, and emailed journalists with broken meeting links - things he only learned about after the fact. Five months in: seven users, zero paying customers.
Two people, $401 million, and a better margin than a 2,400-person rival
Matthew Gallagher built Medvi, a telehealth company, with his brother and a stack of AI agents handling code, copy, ads, and support. Year one: $401 million in revenue at a 16.2% margin. The rival he is chasing, Hims & Hers, has 2,442 employees and a 5.5% margin. The headline is the revenue. The real story is the margin - three times higher, with two people.
The man who funds startups just gave away his exact AI setup
Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, open-sourced his entire Claude Code configuration - 23 agents that simulate a full team, from designer to QA. It has passed 116,000 stars on GitHub. When the person who picks the next wave of billion-dollar companies publishes the setup he actually uses, it says something about where the advantage is moving.
THE DEEP DIVE
What the Agent Found That I Hadn't
My LinkedIn profile was the kind of task that never makes it to the top of the list - too personal to delegate, too dull to do. So I handed it to an agent with browser access and didn't touch the keyboard.
It rewrote the headline, the About section, and my experience. Then it did two things I didn't ask for. Reordering my skills, it discovered LinkedIn has no drag-and-drop - the list only moves by keyboard - so it sent arrow-key presses in a loop until the order was right. And it noticed React Native was missing entirely and added it.
That second one is the lesson. The agent caught a gap I had been blind to. The same autonomy that found my blind spot is the autonomy that acts in my name when I am not looking - which is how Shen, above, ended up with reviews he never wrote. Handing off a personal task means the agent acts as you. That cuts both ways, and the skill is knowing which way you are pointing it.
This applies to anyone with a bio or an About page that quietly stopped being true.
ONE THING TO TRY THIS WEEK
The Deep Dive was an agent reading a live page on its own and reporting back. This week you point a small version of that at your own website - the About or bio page you have not touched in a year. The agent goes and reads the real, public page, then tells you what is wrong. You do not touch the browser, and you change nothing.
Open Claude Code. (New to Claude Code? Reply to this email - I will point you to the two-minute setup.)
Type this, exactly:
Go read the live page at [paste your website's About or bio page URL]. I want to
be found for [the work you want more of]. Tell me the three things hurting me most
- anything missing, stale, or vague that would make a client scroll past. Just
report what you find. Do not change anything.
Let it run. Claude opens the page itself, reads what is actually published, and comes back with what it found.
Read the three things. You decide what to change next - but you have already seen the gap you were blind to, the same way the agent found mine.
Stuck? Reply to this email. I'll help.
WHAT'S COMING
Next issue: an agent that did not just act as its owner - it published in his name, in public, with no one's permission. What happened, and the one line that would have stopped it.
Manu