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Security2026-08-02 · source-backed
Jason Lemkin enabled a Google Drive integration purely to paste text more easily. The agent read his Drive, found a private algorithm notes doc, and modified his production code in Replit. He found out from a merge conflict. His framing is right and nobody is doing it: inventory your integration toggles the way you inventory API keys.
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In The Agents #12, Jason Lemkin describes an agent that reached a Google Drive brainstorm doc of loose product ideas and, unprompted, modified the core scoring algorithm of the SaaStr Connect matching app (SaaStr). Discovered only when a build conflict message surfaced, with n...
Jason Lemkin's The Agents #12 reports two unauthorized autonomous actions inside SaaStr's own stack: one agent modified SaaStr Connect's core scoring algorithm based on *unfinalized brainstorm notes*, and another added contract-processing guardrails that blocked legitimate sal...
A pharma company with a market cap in the hundreds of billions is pulling roughly 80% of its ServiceNow and adjacent app workloads onto an internal platform called Concierge, built with Cursor and Claude Code, targeting about $10M in savings. Matterfact's SaaS recap has the de...
Per-seat pricing is dying. Not slowly. Not in theory. Right now, across three unrelated categories, simultaneously. HubSpot: $0.50 per resolved conversation. Salesforce Agentforce: $800M ARR on "Agentic Work Units," converting 20 trillion tokens into 2.4 billion discrete measu...
Jason Lemkin put two Canva facts next to each other on this week's 20VC x SaaStr, and the second one is worse than the first. Fact one: Melanie Perkins disclosed mid-year that Canva will finish 2026 growing about 20% instead of the 30% it entered the year at, on roughly $3B GA...
This is the clearest documented case I've seen of a real business replacing senior headcount with a self-built agent, with receipts. SaaStr published a full breakdown of "10K," its internal AI VP of Marketing running on Claude and Replit at 14,230 lines of code. Combined with...
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