Hi folks,
Trying something different today, because why not?!
(i’ll fix the aspect ratio next time - stupid ultra wide monitor cropping)
PS. My talk from Stanford is now live on YouTube. I’d been up since 2am so nice comments only please. The course will be available to preview in early access next week…
If you want to chat about early experiments or feedback on things I’m trying, join this new substack group chat.
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Headlines
Google’s new model, Gemini 4 Argon, is now available for everyone to use. Dan likes it as his new writing partner, but I don’t think it’s that great - I mostly tested its design capabilities, it was slow and looked bad. Theo called it unusable.
I tried it in Droid to edit a short video: great analysing reels and planning cuts, but bad at UI and the final edit had weird hallucinations.
— Keshav
New version of Jev - multimodal inputs, longer context and a new decision type: bounding boxes.
Claude Code desktop app got a design upgrade + many new features. Multi-folder environments, child sessions, and side questions in the /btw tab. They also built their own version control system to replace git.
Grok Bot 0.70.2 - Figma, Notion and Canva now open as live cards in the chat, bots can search X without you connecting an account, and they check with you before anything irreversible. Founders can also submit their product as a connector now.
Closing your business? Your operational data could still be worth $1M+. micro1 pays qualifying U.S. companies that had 50+ employees to license records for AI training. Refer a company, and you could earn up to $50,000. See if you qualify.*
My feed
Grok Voice 3.0 tops the speech-to-speech rankings. It already handles ~20k Starlink support calls a day.
How Attio are changing their business to be agent-first
Glass - Ramp's shared AI workspace. Employees can share skills and company memory instead of re-explaining context in every chat.
Am I being Phished? - a Grok Bot that watches your email and Slack for scams.
Factory’s droids can now run on your own machine or in your own cloud.
Trace - shadcn’s component for showing what your agent is doing: reasoning, tool calls, subagents.
Every open-sourced its hiring pipeline skills for Codex.
Underdog + Stripe - Let your browser agent shop with one-time virtual cards.
DigUp - Spotlight but better. It understands what's inside your files. Fully local.
Giving coding agents a docs link doubles task completion from 41% to 84%.
Making a global billboard campaign in 3D Google Maps with coding agents
Runway MCP - generate images and videos inside Replit for web design.
Power-user tips for setting up Grok Bot.
MagicOS - a voice-first design canvas for your team, humans and agents.
Codex and ChatGPT Work now generate over half of all EU enterprise output tokens.
OpenAI found a recording device hidden in its office and used its own models to trace it to an employee. The FBI made an arrest.
Ultramarine 1 Flash - an open model for finance & office work, ~60x cheaper than Fable 5.
Try this
[From Keshav] I keep two files every agent can read: chat-index.md (past chats, updated daily by an automation) and folder-map.md (where each project lives). Instead of resuming a session, I start a new one and say:
Read the chat where I was working on [project]. We’ll continue that today.
Works with any agent that can read your files.
Video mentions:
Magic Patterns: designers are NOT getting replaced
shadcn: agents need more than a chatbox
Sully: “what we’ll see is moddable software“
PostHog: 38 lessons from building AI products
levelsio: “a new time of leisure“
Felix Rieseberg: how to be more ambitious with AI models.
Aadil Pickle: 26,000 songs, $200k a year
Daisy: AI fluency is a social skill
poteto: “i never let agents write for me“ (and Uncle Bob on her plist)
Afters
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