The newsletter for ai builders of all levels. Mini-tutorials, tool reviews, and lay of the land from an exited founder turned investor and forever tinkerer.

Hey folks,

Anyone work at Docker that can bump me up the Docker Hub/Offload waitlist? 🙏

The all you can eat buffet is ending. Claude Code is getting weekly rate limits²²⁶ that Anthropic says will impact only 5% of the users (i.e. us). Limits begin from August 28 - so get your agents on overdrive (which is actually the reason these limits are coming into effect).

I saw this cool tool: Claude Count⁹⁴⁹ which shows a leaderboard of how much you’re using Claude Code. I made it to the top 20!

Claude Code also has subagents⁴³⁸ - You can create these within the Claude Code interface, and Claude can write them for you. This basically gives them a set of instructions, things to do, and tools they can use, and it's going even more in the direction of apps becoming agents now. And some inspiration⁶⁷⁴ for what subagents to create.

Figma Make is now available for everyone⁸²³. Check out this interview with some of its makers²⁰⁷.

Runway has a new video model - Aleph²²⁴, made primarily for editing videos like creating a new angle of a scene, adding/removing objects, and transferring style from one clip to another. Related: Netflix’s co-CEO mentioned the use of generative AI in one of the sequences in an Argentinian show on the platform, so yes, AI video is staying.

Z AI, another Chinese company released a big open-source model that beats Opus on benchmarks. GLM-4.5 and 4.5 Air¹³⁸ are two variants of their new model, both very cheap and with near frontier performance, especially when it comes to tool calls. This is a common trend across Kimi K2 and the new Qwen model released last week— a ton of effort is going into teaching the model when to use reasoning, when/how to use external tools

Airia is the enterprise AI orchestration platform that keeps your data secure. Build AI agents with built-in governance, role-based controls, and audit trails. Integrate with enterprise systems securely through no-code tools. Secure AI at scale.¹⁰⁰*

After launching an AI app builder¹⁵³, the next step for Microsoft is giving Edge (that’s their browser if you didn’t know) a Copilot Mode¹³⁸ to take on the likes of Dia and Comet. The core feature is access to open tabs and then making actions on them (like booking a hotel for the 100th time). ps: what’s up with these weird close-up shots in the launch video?

The results from Bolt’s vibe-coding hackathon are out. Check out all the winners and their projects here³⁹².

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🌐 What I’m consuming

• Reverse engineering GitHub Spark²⁰⁹ by using GitHub Spark.

• A visual explanation of token consumption³⁵⁷ when agents use files and call tools.

• FAQs on MCP⁴¹⁹, written for developers.

• Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs.⁵³⁰

• The Modern Startup Playbook with Grant Lee⁵⁶¹, CEO of Gamma (I intro’d Bryce and Grant and so cool to see the end product)

• What type of apps can non-engineers make⁶¹³ with vibe coding? for real, right now.

I asked ChatGPT Agent to make an image to show the content from the last link above. I got this after ~20 mins of it working. What do you think?

⚙️ Tools I’m looking into

• Chronicle⁵²⁸ helps you make designer-grade presentations with AI for free. It is like Cursor for presentations!*

• Waves²⁸³ - Camera glasses for creators. No AI, but it allows you to record and livestream in stealth, which feels like another gimmick to hype (maybe) a decent product.

• Data Connectors in Julius AI¹¹⁹ - You can now connect to Postgres, Drive or more and get insights from your data + Julius just raised $10M⁵¹ (I’m an early investor)

• Shortcut⁵⁶⁶ - The viral AI agent for Excel is now live for everyone.

• Supermemory³⁸⁹ - Universal memory for all the apps you use.

• Web Guide¹⁸² - An experiment from Google Labs to group together similar links on the search page. It’s slow for now, but I’ve kept it on, so let’s see how it goes.

• Opal³⁰⁷ - A visual AI app builder. Available as an experiment from Google Labs in US only (VPN works).

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🥣 Dev dish

• OpenSaaS³¹⁰ - Free, open-source SaaS template with auth, payments, admin dashboard, and an llms.txt file to make it your own. (one of my portfolio companies from back in 2021!)

• FlareDream¹⁰² - Deploy Cloudflare workers easily, either programmatically or by just uploading a folder.

• mini-swe-agent⁷⁶ - A small, simple agent to solve GitHub issues and more.

• CodeWizard¹³⁶ - Kimi K2 on Groq with real-time access to docs for 30,000+ libraries and frameworks.

• Gemini CLI cheatsheet²³⁹ - Quick overview of how to set it up and what you can do with it.

🍦 Afters

• Alex is planning Vibecon¹⁸⁶, an un-coference in the fall. A small, relaxed event where you can come to learn and vibe-code apps with friends.

• State of AI developer survey⁹⁷ from Vercel for mid-2025.

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

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📷 thumbnail creds: @keshavatearth³²