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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.

Anthropic just shared what happens when AI agents do the work: in August, its agents logged six times more hours than its people, and junior hires became a much smaller share of tech roles.

Plus, DeepSeek is undercutting everyone on agent costs, and Replit switched its default to OpenAI.

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AI News around the world 🌍

🤖 By August, Anthropic’s AI agents logged six times more hours than its staff, while junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of technical hires. (continue reading)

🐋 DeepSeek says its open-weight V4.1 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 on its own coding and agent benchmarks, at just under 20 cents a task. (continue reading)

🔄 Replit made OpenAI its coding agent’s default, with CEO Amjad Masad saying ChatGPT is better now. (continue reading)

🏰 Disney agreed to offer jobs to at least 60 bankrupt Character.AI staffers, most of its team, with an estimated $60 million in yearly pay. (continue reading)

🎮 Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without human input, slaying the Ender Dragon after 27 hours. (continue reading)

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Prompt of the Week 🧠

Overdue Invoice Recovery → Collect what clients owe you before year–end, without souring the relationship.

Run this now, before December sign-offs and holiday out-of-office replies slow everything down, to get a ranked chase list, emails for every stage, and a script for the harder calls.

Prompt:

You are an accounts receivable specialist who also cares about client relationships. I have unpaid invoices and I want to collect as much as possible before the year closes, without damaging the clients I want to keep.

Here is my context:
- My business: [what you sell, typical invoice size, B2B or B2C]
- My payment terms: [for example net 30, deposit upfront, late fee clause in contract or none]
- How clients can pay: [bank transfer, card payment link, Stripe, PayPal, etc.]
- My overdue invoices: [for each one: client, amount, invoice date, due date, days overdue, reminders already sent, how important the client is to me, any complaint or dispute]
- My leverage: [can I pause work, hold deliverables, or charge late fees under my contract]
- My tone: [friendly, formal, direct]
- My goal: [amount I want collected by a date, for example "everything over 30 days late paid by December 15"]

Do the following:

1. Triage: Sort every invoice into 4 groups (just late, slipping, at risk, disputed). Rank them by amount and risk, and tell me the 5 to chase first this week and why.

2. Likely cause: For each invoice, give the most likely reason it is unpaid (forgotten, sent to the wrong person, missing purchase order, waiting on approval, unhappy with the work, cash trouble) and the one question that will confirm it.

3. Email sequence: For each group, write a 3-step sequence (friendly nudge, firm follow-up, final notice). Keep each email under 120 words, include the invoice number, amount and a clear pay-by date as placeholders, and give 2 subject line options for each. Tell me how many days to wait between steps.

4. Call script: For my 3 biggest or riskiest invoices, write a short phone or video call script: the opener, the ask, and replies for "it is waiting on approval", "cash is tight right now" and "we were not happy with the work".

5. Unblock options: Tell me when to offer a payment plan, accept a partial payment, pause work or apply a late fee, and give me the exact wording to offer each one without sounding threatening. Flag any invoice that may need a formal collections or legal step, but do not draft legal threats.

6. Prevention for next year: Suggest 5 changes to how I quote and invoice in 2027 (for example deposits, shorter terms, autopay, invoicing the right contact with the purchase order number, automatic reminders) and write the sentence I should add to my proposals or contracts for each.

Ask me for any missing information before you start.

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