Hey folks,
I want to know who uses agent products as a ‘personal agent’. ie organise stuff for you, things outside of work, handling email, doing stuff on your computer, etc.
- answers revealed in Thursday’s post.
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Grok Bot is taking over a lot of the ex-OpenClaw crowd. Just like the last cycle, there’s already a social feed for Grok Bots that you can’t read (easily) as a human. Hermes Desktop, another work-with-agent app, also launched a Bot mode to mimic the UX of Grok mode.
Grok bot in action:
helping a plumbing company owner
Computer history in Codex/ChatGPT - New feature that turns your activity across apps and websites on your desktop into memories and a timeline for reference when you ask it to do something (remember the limitless app?). It’s opt-in via settings. Explainer of how it works and an example you can try.
More Codex:
How to enable a 1M-token context window for Sol. (I wouldn’t bother - the default is there for a reason)
Ultrafast GPT-5.6-Sol in the API for select customers.
New in Claude Code:
/design skill creates editable UI artboards where you can pick a direction and tweak it visually (just like Claude Design). Once you’re happy, Claude Code can implement it.
Hit your limits? Set up auto-continue for when the timer resets.
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, three weeks after 3.6 Flash. Big improvements on benchmarks (better than GPT-5.6 Terra and Sonnet 5). Flash 3.7 and 3.6 are 50% off till the end of the year.
Now that Airtable’s been acquired, Google Sheets is dancing on its grave w/ Sheets Canvas - apps inside Google Sheets that sync with your data.
A little Mac tool to schedule boring tasks & headless agents.
GitHub was down (again) yesterday, and Cursor launched Origin - their competitor. Timing’s phenomenal - I half think they had it ready just for when GitHub went down, because it’s happening a lot atm.
Theo Browne broke down his AGENTS.md and SKILLS.md files. Which reminds me, I should do this too (again).
Factory opened up Guild, a highly selective builder program.
A template to build your own software factory.
Why model routing must be in the harness.
A collection of minimal, animated chart components.
Notes on building products people love when software gets cheap.
Own your intelligence: a how-to guide.
Filling in forms should be smarter (and less annoying for us).
Codex as an assistant video editor for the OpenAI team.
AI usage patterns in software teams based on Linear’s data.
Small things you can do right away to make your interfaces better.
The ElevenLabs MCP is now available in Claude.
Stripe has finalised an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7B.
lil c@seclilc
AI;DR (AI; didn’t read)
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Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking. In summary: • We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking;
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Hours@hours
gambling my token allocation
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cole murray@colemurray
pretty cool metaprompt, interactive as well
FleetingBits @fleetingbits
i've started having claude turn my codebases into visual diagrams so i can discuss the codebases with claude more easily - the moving dots are data snippets that i can inspect
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Scott Tolinski@stolinski
This is the most important video I've ever made. In this, I explore the negative and positive mental health effects of AI coding, with data and expert commentary.
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The True Cost of AI Coding
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1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that “either concentrate it in the hands of a
Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker
@_sholtodouglas Sholto, thank you for setting the record straight. Larger issue is that multiple very serious people in Silicon Valley have heard some variation of this and believe it to be true. And the reason it is believable to so many is that it is consistent with Dario’s public messaging
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