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What's missing from a pipeline that hands you two hours of reading?

Featuring From the Weekly Meeting. Published July 29, 2026.

Jacob’s overnight pipeline researches while he sleeps and hands him two hours of reading every morning, which is a pipeline with a missing final stage. The fix on the table: migrate it into Cowork and have Claude Code write its own handoff prompt. Output should end in a decision, not a reading list.

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