Digest #548 | Building with AI? Get Pro and join the community³⁹

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Let’s get into it

 🔎 What’s Trending

• ChatGPT wants to have infinite memory. OpenAI claims⁷¹ that it does now (at least for Pro users). They say improved memory in ChatGPT references all your old chats. But after many tries, I don’t think it works. Sure, saved memory snippets are time-aware, and ChatGPT’s “prophecies²⁴⁴” about you are even more believable. But try asking anything specific¹¹⁴ about an old chat, and it fumbles.

• OpenAI also released three new models⁷¹ on Monday—GPT-4.1, 4.1 mini and 4.1 nano. Only for devs, 1M context window, better than 4o and slightly cheaper.

  • If I compare GPT-4.1 with Gemini 2.0 Flash, both models score roughly the same on custom evals by Box⁸⁵, but 4.1 is 20x more expensive. Nano is priced the same as Flash, but then the performance is much worse.

• Wordware⁶⁸⁶ (i’m an investor) now integrates with 2,000+ apps & data-sources. So you can connect your favourite apps, build AI agents, and let any trigger start automated flows that do actual work for you.

• Canva has a code generator now.²⁵⁴ Well, it’s supposed to help designers build interactive snippets that they can use in their projects. Think something like Claude Artifacts, but you get a place to host/edit them in Canva.

• A survey of 1K+ leaders found AI was effective—for some businesses. But what makes the difference? Businesses using more customized solutions like AI agents reported a much higher transformational impact. Even more so when using no code to build their own. Read the report to learn more¹⁶⁹.*
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 🔬 Tiny experiment

Last weekend, I exported my ChatGPT history and tried to visualize it. Turns out that 21% of all my chats are about coding. And, I edit every message I send to ChatGPT at least once on average.

Here’s how I did it:

• generated a script with Gemini to get the complete schema of conversations.json (from the export)

• added that schema to chat. Suggested a few analysis options and asked for more. "How many chats contain code?" was Gemini's suggestion.

• asked Gemini to create the script in Python first. Reason: I've gotten better at debugging Python. Ran it locally, and it worked perfectly.

• shared the text output with Gemini and asked it to rewrite the script in JS for Gemini’s Canvas. Gemini also had to figure out the best UI to represent this type of data.

It took roughly 20 minutes. Here's the canvas link²⁰⁴—if you export your data, you can run the same analysis by uploading conversations.json from the export. All the analysis happens in your browser, so none of your data is shared with anyone.

— by Keshav

⚙️ Top tools

• Stay competitive in an AI-driven workplace. Gain insights and future-proof your career³³⁵ with the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard.*

• Offdeal²¹⁷ spun up a tool to calculate the impact of Trump’s tariffs on your small business. Apple seems safe, but are you?

• Mecagant¹⁶³ - AI copilot for mechanical CAD software. If I may—a cursor for mechanical engineers.

• Opennote⁴²⁹ - Make AI teach you by drawing Feynman-like diagrams.

• Pippit²⁰⁸ - Capcut has a new name for its tool for generating short marketing videos with avatars.

• Image Styles³⁶⁹ - Explore a variety of image styles generated by ChatGPT.

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 🌐 News flash

• Mira Murati¹¹⁷ and Ilya Sutskever⁷⁸ are both raising billions for their AI companies without any product.

• Bolt can now connect to Stripe¹¹³. The best way to validate an idea is to get people to put down their credit card, and this quick integration with Stripe will make creating landing pages to accept payments so easy.

• Google is out there trying to talk to dolphins¹⁵¹. They have trained a model that understands dolphin sounds and can mimic them too.

• US Secretary of Education²⁰³ called AI “A-1” multiple times at an event. Maybe she just wanted some steak sauce, right?

• Forbes AI 50 ³²⁶is an annual list of who they think are on top. It’s out and includes Cursor (Anysphere), Windsurf and Bolt (Stackblitz), etc.

 📜 You should read

• An illustrated primer about the state of voice agents in 2025⁴¹⁹. Good resource to bookmark and read on slowly.

• SF Compute¹¹⁷: Commoditizing compute to solve the GPU bubble forever.

That’s it for today. Feel free to hit reply and share your thoughts. 👋

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