Hey folks,

I spent most of the bank holiday weekend offline for a change whilst at a wedding in the English countryside. I would’ve been more online if Codex had a mobile app but still waiting on that… this morning I did just install this skill⁴⁰² that lets you iMessage Codex which is pretty great - essentially keeps a thread open in the app that you can message. Just paste the link in Codex and it’ll guide you through everything.

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Headlines

• OpenAI wants non-technical users to use Codex. They are making it easy for you to switch to Codex⁴⁰³. You can now import settings, plugins, agents, project configuration and more into Codex (from tools like Claude Cowork). They are directly improving features related to everyday work²³², like creating slides/sheets, plus friendlier UI changes.

• Grok 4.3 is out in the API¹²⁰. 1M context, text + image input, reasoning and a December 2025 knowledge cutoff. It’s priced $1.25/$2.50 per million input/output tokens, i.e. much cheaper than Sonnet 4.6 for a relatively similar performance.

• Entire, the company by GitHub’s ex-CEO, released two new things: git-sync¹⁹⁸ - a utility to mirror git repos from a source to a target without needing to clone it locally and Dispatches¹⁶⁵ - a feature on their web platform to generate release notes from recent ships, commits, and agent sessions by repo/date range.

• Charity Majors and Christine Yen headline Honeycomb's Innovation Week¹²⁸ (May 12–14), a 3-day virtual event addressing observability for the agent era. Learn how the most forward-thinking engineering teams are rising to meet this challenge. Register now¹²⁸.*

My feed

• Lightfield - AI-native CRM that learns how you sell. Describe any workflow in English, your CRM runs it on command. 3 mo free w/ ¹³⁷BENSBITEST13¹³⁷*

• Sauna⁵⁴⁵ - learns how you work, remembers everything that matters, and actions on it (portfolio company!)

• Shared Brain by Zapier²⁶² - Collective knowledge vault for your team and a personal assistant to complete tasks. Now in early access.

• Manus Cloud Computer¹⁷⁸ - always-on cloud machine for Manus so bots, scripts, databases and scheduled jobs keep running when your laptop is off. Files and installed tools persist across sessions.

• Proxyuser²¹⁵ - test all the core flows of your app via a synthetic user with a real browser, including signups.

• Web UI Bench²⁷⁸ - Same UI components built by 20 models, shown side-by-side. GPT-5.5 uses too much bland text in the UI when an icon or control is self-explanatory (compared to Opus 4.7).

• Flue¹⁸⁸ - TypeScript framework for building Claude Code-style agents.

• deepsec¹⁷⁶ - open-source security harness from Vercel for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase with coding agents.

• localterm¹¹⁶ - run a terminal in your browser with npx localterm@latest start.

• open-slide²³⁰ - slide framework built for agents. Visual edits, comments, assets and agent-readable slide structure.

• Refero Styles³²⁵ - 2,000+ DESIGN.md files from real products that your agent can use for style references.

• How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI¹⁶² at scale.

• crabbox¹¹⁶ - run your dirty worktrees in a remote sandbox easily. (tweet⁵⁰)

• OpenAI has a new opt-in feature for Advanced Account Security¹²¹ in ChatGPT/Codex.

• Base44’s Frustration Meter¹⁴⁰ - usage-based model benchmark. Base44 says Opus 4.7 caused 43% more frustration than Opus 4.6.

• Cofounder 2²⁶⁶ - another “run a company with agents” product that’s a combo of vibe coding, finding leads and sending sales emails.

• How Posthog plans to change¹⁹⁶ in the AI era.

Afters

Pets. Now in Codex. Use /pet to wake your pet.

@OpenAIDevs⁴⁵²

We just shipped Webhooks in the Gemini API :) This is a big step towards making the DevX for long running tasks (batch, agents, GenMedia, etc) way better.

@OfficialLoganK¹⁰⁵

My first pi extension: /feedback. For the novels that models tend to write. It writes the last msg to a .md in your session and opens it in $EDITOR. If you save it with changes, it injects a [Feedback] token. The token is replaced with a small prompt + the diff. Works great!

@filearts¹²⁰

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