The newsletter for the technically curious. Updates, tool reviews, and lay of the land from an exited founder turned investor and forever tinkerer.

Hey folks,

I just posted a little video walkthrough⁵⁷¹ of something I built! I gave a tweet of a video to droid¹⁸², said reverse engineer this and rebuild it (and it did!) It lets you have a little dashboard for agents looping on tasks (or you can use GitHub issues). Super fun little project to test out how easy it is to point at a video and reverse engineer something in a morning. Enjoy!

Cursor let agents build a web browser from scratch²⁵⁶ by letting them run for about a week. They found GPT-5.2 to be the best model for longer, more autonomous work (vs. Opus 4.5) and prompts to matter more than they expected. Also, OpenAI just made GPT-5.2-Codex⁶² available in the API, i.e. it’s available in Droid, Cursor, Windsurf and other apps too.

Claude Code can now search the right tool¹⁹⁹ from your MCP server without clogging up all of your context window. Also, you can now add a comment by pressing tab when accepting/rejecting a permission prompt⁶⁰, i.e. “yes, and {do it this way}.”

Anthropic is expanding its experiments garage. Anthropic’s Labs team¹⁷⁴ is hiring builders to create new products like Claude Code, MCP, and Claude in Chrome under Mike Krieger and Ben Mann.

Google is adding Personal Intelligence²³⁰ i.e. deep data integration with your Gmail, Photos, YouTube history and more into the Gemini app. I tried testing it, but it’s US only, and I’m very suspicious of it working as well as the demos show.

I’ll be joining Every for their Vibe Code Camp³²⁶ - where a bunch of us ‘vibe-coders’ will be building stuff, sharing what we did and tips. Other folks you know will be there!

🌐 What I’m consuming

• AI may unleash the most entrepreneurial generation⁶⁴⁷ we’ve ever seen.

• How do you store and retrieve information from the web in a database³⁴⁷?

• 2026: This is AGI.³⁰³ A case for long-running agents satisfying a functional definition of AGI.

• Understanding Manus sandbox²⁷⁶ - your cloud computer.

• Give your agent a laboratory, not a task³⁸⁹.

⚙️ Tools and demos

• Scroll.ai³¹⁷ turns any knowledge base into an enterprise-grade chatbot. Tap into accuracy and depth that generic models can’t touch.*

• 1code by 21st.dev²⁰¹ - Calm, visual client for real code work. open-source.

• Slackbot¹¹⁶ is now AI powered. It can create canvases, search and access messages, uploaded documents etc. and more.

• Skillsync¹⁵⁰ - Find elite (but overlooked!) engineers on GitHub based on what they have actually built.

🥣 Dev Dish

• json-render¹⁹⁷ - Let AI render UI on demand based on your defined catalogue.

• agent-browser¹⁹⁰ - Browser automation CLI for AI agents.

• react-best-practices¹⁵⁴ - Vercel released this skill with a collection of documents on how to code better with React. (read more⁷²)

• npx add-skill - run this command and install any skill for your coding agents.

🍦 Afters

• Google released new open-source models for medical usecases - MedGemma 1.5 4B and MedASR¹³⁶.

• Delphi is hiring a designer⁸² for its consumer product.

• Three of Thinking Machines’ six original co-founders are back at OpenAI.¹²⁸

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

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