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How I AI: Sonnet 5 Benchmark and Agent Workflows

A two-part How I AI newsletter episode: Claire benchmarks Anthropic’s new Sonnet 5 using a repeatable “How I AI Bench” built with Claude Code, blind-testing Sonnet 5 against Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3 Pro across PRDs, prototypes, agentic tasks, and personality. Sonnet 5’s introductory pricing ($2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens through the end of summer) positions it between prior Sonnet releases and Opus; Claire found human judgement diverged sharply from LLM-as-judge scores. Separately, Alessio Fanelli (founder of Kernel Labs) demonstrates managing autonomous coding agents from mobile using OpenAI Symphony, Linear, and cloud VPS, highlights token-cost tracking, skills-file hygiene, and perception tooling (Kernel Labs’ Glimpse) to extend autonomous runs. The issue emphasizes building repeatable benchmarks and operational practices for agentic workflows.

Major 2026 Tech Layoffs Citing AI

TechCrunch compiles a running list of major 2026 tech company layoffs where executives cited AI as a factor. The roundup notes roughly 120,000 tech roles cut in 2026 (according to Layoffs.fyi) and details large reductions at multiple large employers: Microsoft eliminated about 4,800 roles, Oracle disclosed a 21,000-headcount reduction over 12 months tied in part to AI, Meta cut ~8,000 roles while moving ~7,000 into AI-focused jobs, and Amazon cut 16,000 corporate positions. Other companies including GitLab, Intuit, Cisco, Cloudflare, Coinbase, PayPal, Snap, IBM, Atlassian, Dell, Block and Salesforce are listed with layoffs or restructurings explicitly linked to AI adoption, infrastructure shifts or organizational simplification. The piece highlights a broader industry pattern of rising revenues alongside workforce reductions attributed to AI-driven efficiency and role rebalancing.

Radial launches one-command Jira importer

Radial published a technical guide and tool that imports a Jira project export into Radial with a single CLI command: radial import --from jira. The import is a deep, single-run migration that brings issues, projects, labels, comments, history and relations; a --dry-run mode reports what would be created and a --json flag returns machine-readable summaries. The import can also be invoked via a REST API (POST /v1/import) and supports assigning imported issues to a team. The article describes Radial’s positioning (keyboard-first, flat $50/user/year pricing and a 'Plain Software Pledge'), notes gaps vs. Jira (no portfolio/initiative layer or extensive dashboards), and warns the importer is not idempotent — dry-run first and run once per file.