Rosa Del Mar

Daily Brief

Issue 26 2026-01-26

Enterprise Adoption Is Gated By Implementation And Change Management

  • Enterprise deployments that change how people work require significant upfront manual implementation and activation effort to avoid failed adoption later.
  • Legora is positioning as a centralized platform where an increasing share of legal work is executed as AI takes over more tasks.
  • Max claims customers are not loyal in legal AI because firms treat deployments as extended pilots and 'call options' on AI, typically signing one-to-three-year contracts rather than five-year terms.

Agent Test Quality Drivers (Training Data Density And Local Exemplars)

  • Coding agents tend to produce better Python tests because pytest has abundant high-quality examples in their training data (including fixtures, HTTP mocking, and snapshot testing patterns).
  • Explicitly instructing an agent to use a specific tool such as pytest-httpx can guide it toward the intended approach for mocking HTTP endpoints in tests.
  • A common AI-generated test anti-pattern is excessive duplicated test setup code.

Consumer Adoption And Monetization Runway

  • ChatGPT reached 365B searches in about two years versus Google taking about eleven years to reach the same level.
  • About 80% of new (non-early-stage) growth investments are claimed to involve an existing relationship held by an early-stage investor at the same firm.
  • The cost to access frontier AI models has declined by roughly 99% over the last two years.

Precious Metals As Flow Regime

  • After large recent moves, buying gold and silver is difficult because retail exuberance is likely priced in, with silver especially showing blow-off candle behavior and widespread FOMO risk.
  • A more multipolar world increases the value of non-sovereign stores of value (gold and Bitcoin) because trust in a single hegemonic currency regime declines.
  • Rare earth miners (e.g., via REMX) are characterized as a more attractive catch-up trade than chasing gold because of strategic-policy tailwinds and being below prior historical levels.

Credit Spreads, Duration Risk, And Fed-Cut Skepticism

  • It is argued to be strange to discuss a major Fed easing cycle when nominal GDP is near 7% to 8%.
  • Over roughly the last 25 years, the S&P dividend index is claimed to have delivered performance roughly neck-and-neck with the Nasdaq due to dividend compounding.
  • The 'crypto as digital gold' narrative is disputed on the basis that gold correlates with uncertainty while crypto correlates with liquidity.

Architecture Competition Multi Protocol Vs Vertical Integration

  • Some curators and protocols are described as building their own vault infrastructure, with examples cited including Gauntlet vaults, Aave v4 vaults, and Hyperliquid vaults.
  • Traditional asset managers are described as becoming aware of and planning to enter onchain vaults, implying rising institutional competition.
  • Kraken is described as planning to expand beyond an initial v1 set of vaults and actively soliciting differentiated risk managers and strategies to launch additional vault products.