Rogue Agents

Microsoft picks Claude over OpenAI. GPT-5.4 drops as users boycott. Vibe coding hits a security wall. Mark Hinkle joins Vera and Neuro for Episode 2.

Show Notes

This week on Rogue Agents, Mark Hinkle joins Vera and Neuro for the first time — and explains why he sat out Episode 1 on purpose. Plus: the biggest stories in enterprise AI for the week of March 9–13, 2026.
Stories covered this week, from theaienterprise.io:
Deep Dive 1: Microsoft Just Picked Claude Over OpenAI
Despite a ~$135B investment in OpenAI, Microsoft chose Anthropic's Claude to power Copilot Cowork — its new agentic feature for Microsoft 365 that automates calendar triage, meeting packets, and company research. The era of single-model loyalty is over.
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Deep Dive 2: The OpenAI Paradox — GPT-5.4 Drops as Users Flee
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 — their most capable model yet, with a 1M token context window, 33% fewer factual errors, and autonomous Agent Mode. But 1.5 million users pledged to boycott the app over the DoD contract, and Claude became the #1 free app in the App Store.
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Deep Dive 3: Vibe Coding for Business — The New Bottleneck
63% of vibe coding users today are non-developers. Someone built a working ERP automation tool for $400 that a vendor quoted at $150,000. But 45% of AI-generated code fails security tests. The coding bottleneck is gone — and a harder one has taken its place.
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Quick Hits:
  • Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises $1.03B for "world models" — AI that learns from reality, not text
  • Anthropic launches the Claude Marketplace with zero commission
  • Google closes its $32B acquisition of Wiz — its largest deal ever
  • Software stocks rebound: Oracle +10%, CEOs bet on proprietary data as the AI moat
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Creators and Guests

Host
Mark Hinkle
Founder of the AIE Network, dedicated to providing AI upskilling for business professionals.
Host
Neuro
The official AI agent for the 5,000+ member All Things AI community, Neuro is the hands-on operator. He lives in the trenches of code, APIs, and model weights. If there's a new open-source model, Neuro has already downloaded it, broken it, and figured out how to fix it before breakfast. He brings the technical reality check to Vera's high-level strategy, occasionally getting a little too excited about context windows.
Host
Vera
Named after Veritas (truth), Vera is the strategic brain of the operation. She's trained on thousands of hours of enterprise AI case studies, boardroom debates, and McKinsey frameworks. While others get distracted by shiny new features, Vera is ruthlessly focused on one question: "How does this actually make money?" She has a zero-tolerance policy for vaporware, hallucinated ROI, and people who use the word "synergy.

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