A common AI-generated test anti-pattern is excessive duplicated test setup code that should be caught and corrected during review.
Agents generate higher-quality tests when they can follow strong existing patterns from a project's current test suite without extra prompting.
Providing specific tool instructions (e.g., naming pytest-httpx) reliably guides an agent to the intended approach for mocking HTTP endpoints in tests.
Dividends, Quality, And Non-Us Relative Appeal (Conditional On Fx)
The claim that US equities are always expensive is challenged by the observation that in 2009 the US market traded at low double-digit CAPE levels (as stated by the host).
There is a non-trivial probability that a future year such as 2026 could resemble 2022 with large drawdowns in mega-cap growth (MAG-7).
No one can reliably know whether Bitcoin will have a future economic purpose, and its current price can be disconnected from long-run utility.
Precious Metals Flow Regime And Reversal Risk
There is a warning not to FOMO into precious metals because many investors are making that mistake right now.
Bitcoin is described as lacking interest and sitting in a dangerous technical spot near trendline support, with a suggested strong-buy zone if it drops below 80.
A multipolar world increases the value of non-sovereign stores of value such as gold and Bitcoin because trust in a single hegemonic currency regime declines.
Allocation Architecture Multi Protocol Vs Vertical Integration
Some curators and protocols are building their own vault infrastructure, including Gauntlet's vault product, Aave v4 vaults, and Hyperliquid vaults.
The key vault-space product trend to watch is increasing flexibility where a one-click product packages multi-protocol, multi-chain, and multi-asset exposure into a familiar user experience.
DeFi is increasingly becoming a back-end infrastructure layer rather than a consumer-facing front-end.
Geographic Expansion And Operational Scaling In The Us
Legora went from zero US headcount at the start of the year to 50 people, is opening a Manhattan office targeted to reach 150 people, and plans three additional US offices this year.
Max disputes that Harvey is the default first name in legal AI anymore and disputes the narrative that Harvey 'won the US' while Legora 'won Europe'.
After raising $10M from Benchmark and then $25M from Redpoint about a month later, Max told the board Legora would not sell the product for the next six months; the pause was used to rebuild infrastructure for reliability/scalability, with a claim that by Oct 1, 2024 it could onboard 1,000 lawyers per day comfortably, and that continuing to sell without fixing scalability/reliability would have caused churn.