Hey folks,

I’m spending as much time as possible off Twitter, and any other general doomscroll distractions. I’ve got work to do (the course/manual/whatever it’ll be called).

Aiming to get at least the preview ‘lessons’ out this month.

I’m not going to force any wisdom out in today’s intro because it’s not my style.

On to the condensed version of the AI madness…

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Headlines

• Claude Opus 4.8¹¹⁴ is out, with dynamic workflows in Claude Code. Claude now writes an orchestration script, then spins up subagents in parallel to work through complex tasks.

  • Dex’s take¹⁶⁰: this doesn’t prove loose multi-agent systems work. Deterministic workflows around small agent loops are more reliable.

  • Claude Opus 4.8 - Simon Willison calls it a modest but useful upgrade¹²², mostly because it’s more honest about uncertainty and less likely to miss flaws in its own code. Every’s vibe check⁹⁸ is more bullish: they found it a big jump from 4.7, strong at coding/writing/knowledge work, and competitive with GPT-5.5 on their internal senior-engineer benchmark. The catch is the harness: the model is back, but Claude’s app still feels messier than Codex.

    • Scores top on ARC-AGI-3⁹⁷, tripling 5.5’s score

    • Datacurve’s new benchmark⁷⁶ places it below gpt 5.5 and only marginally better than 5.4. Using a lot more tokens…$$$.

      

• Anthropic filed a confidential S-1⁷⁷ and raised a round $65B Series H at $965B post-money⁵⁴. IPO this year?

• NVIDIA and Microsoft are reinventing Windows PCs for personal AI agents²⁴⁴ — RTX Spark is a 1-petaflop Windows superchip with up to 128GB unified memory, full CUDA/RTX support, local 120B model support, and new Windows agent security primitives + NVIDIA OpenShell. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra⁵³² is the flagship device.

• Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone⁹³²

• Stacker's AI Accelerator³⁵³ is offering $500k in inference credits to businesses ready to go AI-first. Selected companies get credits and hands-on mentoring to deploy AI agents across their operations. Applications close June 9th. Apply now⁶⁵.*

My feed

• Stacker³⁵³ is an AI coworker that joins the dots in your business. Stacker lives in Slack, connects your tools, and does the work.*

• ChatGPT has a new table of contents UI for long chats²⁴⁷, and a full-screen long-form writing mode¹⁷³ that can save drafts to your Library.

• Codex got computer use + mobile remote control¹¹¹ on Windows and a Python SDK⁶⁰.

• Replit added a Canvas⁹⁷ to create variants, annotate, compare design directions and apply changes back into your app.

• Figma Make now works on your local code¹⁴¹ - visually edit the app, annotate, chat and open PRs.

• Linear’s new product Diffs⁹⁰ adds PR review into Linear, with guided reviews and agent iteration.

• SkillSpector¹²⁴ - a new security scanner for skills by NVIDIA

• Google AI Studio²³⁹ now lets you build apps that connect to Gmail, Drive, Sheets and more without jumping through other Google Cloud screens.

• Agent Cookie¹¹³ - syncs cookies, CLI tokens and API keys from your laptop to a Mac mini running OpenClaw/Hermes.

• Agent Handler for Employees¹³⁶: secure AI access for every employee.

• Impeccable 3.5²³² - design skill for coding agents with model-specific anti-pattern rules.

• Four tips to help agents understand your codebase²¹⁰.

• Sandboxes²³⁵ are becoming the OS for agents.

• 30 mins epsiode on /goal²²⁵ and how to use it in Codex.

• Building Grok Imagine in 3 months and Video Agents⁷⁸.

• The most rational take on AI⁵⁷¹ you’ll hear this year

Afters

To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want: - "stagger this list of items" - "make this animation direction-aware" - "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation", I made a motion vocabulary for this: animations.dev/vocabulary

@emilkowalski²⁶⁹

this codex prompt is literally the best thing ever if you are building react apps and want the cleanest possible code simply run "/goal run npx react-doctor@latest and fix issues until you get a score of 100. do it properly without taking any shortcuts" in codex thank me later

@weswinder¹⁶⁶

My biggest takeaways from @benedictevans: 1. We’re in 1997 for AI—it’s as big a deal as the internet or mobile, and only as big a deal as the internet or mobile. We’re at the stage where most stuff kind of doesn’t work yet, most of what people will build hasn’t been built, and

@lennysan²¹⁸

Watch me control my computer with just my voice. This is the future of operating systems. No hands. GPT-Realtime 2.0 is very, very underrated. Demo:

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