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I record mini-tutorials, review tools I’m testing, share my insights from an exited founder turned investor.

Hey folks,

coming at you from sunny Mallorca, Spain ☀️—having a lil break for a week and trying to not get too sucked in to every AI update (as usual).

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🔎 News worth knowing

• ChatGPT is finally getting MCP connectors⁶²⁵ → You can use these (and other pre-built connectors) in Deep Research mode. The pre-built connectors⁵⁷⁶ are available in the cheapest Plus plan ($20/mo), but custom connectors via MCP are not on it yet.

• ChatGPT Record Mode⁴⁷³ → On the ChatGPT MacOS desktop app, you can record your meetings and get a) full transcript and b) a pointwise detailed summary with citations to your transcript. ChatGPT can also refer to these transcripts for further tasks in new chats (if you want to). This is available only on the Team plan for now.

• Codex, the SWE agent by ChatGPT²²¹, is now available on the Plus plan with some upgrades. The most important one: you can now enable internet access for Codex, i.e. Codex can install extra dependencies while working. I tried working with it yesterday, and the process is now much smoother.

• In SaaS, NDR separated the best from the rest. In GenAI, it’s the Emergence Rate²¹³. This new framework from Emergence Capital tracks whether your AI product compounds value with every user interaction. Don’t scale static software. Build the perpetual algorithm.*

• Mistral also released their coding assistant “Mistral Code⁸⁸”, which looks more like GitHub Copilot than Claude Code. Also, Claude Code⁹³ is now available on the Claude Pro plan ($20/mo) with other features like Research and MCP Integrations⁸⁵.

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🌐 What I’m consuming

• What if your company wiki was automatically written from all your meetings⁵⁵⁵?

• A practical guide to building agents⁷⁸⁸ by OpenAI.

• The prompt engineering playbook⁷³⁴ for programmers. I like the examples more than the advice, and you should read them even if you’re vibecoding.

• Create a game⁵⁵⁰ in hours, not years.

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=NMpmhgXrbLA⁵⁵⁰

⚙️ Tools I’m tinkering with

• Cursor has reached v1.0¹⁹¹ - Now it can review your code, remember its mistakes, work on dozens of tasks in the background and a lot more⁸⁴. I’ve tried some of them, excited to play more when I’m back.

• Amy³¹⁰ - The AI agent for private market investors. Reclaim the time wasted on busy work. (launch vid¹¹⁵)

• AdamCAD³³³ - Generate customizable 3D designs in seconds.

• Meeting Brief²⁹¹ - Instant intel for every meeting.

• Langfuse¹⁶⁵ is open-sourcing all product features, including LLM-as-a-judge evals, annotations, prompt experiments and their playground.

• Bland¹⁸⁸ - Clone a voice, add sound effects or teach a style to your AI calling agent.

• Wisprflow⁵³⁰ is now live on iOS. I use it on my Mac for speech-to-text and it’s the best out there imo.

🥣 Dev dish

• Uzi^163† - your command centre for parallel AI coding agents.

• This 8B model fine-tuned by Nvidia is topping OCR benchmarks¹⁴⁰.

• DiffX⁷⁰ - A standard for creating modern unified diff files.

• Add Stripe's official MCP¹³³ to Cursor in a couple of clicks.

🍦 Afters

• AI Engineer World Fair²⁹⁶ has released a playlist with 60 online talks for free.

• New programming blogger in the house—Claude has its own blog²⁵⁴. We will see so many AI bloggers, models, vloggers, writers, substacks, twitters etc.

• Reddit sues Anthropic²¹⁰, calling the AI lab double-faced.

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

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