Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM
Software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term "meat proxy" for relaying an LLM's verbatim output in conversations, arguing it adds no value because recipients can query the model themselves. He urges…
Software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term "meat proxy" for relaying an LLM's verbatim output in conversations, arguing it adds no value because recipients can query the model themselves. He urges…
Supabase is now available as a connector on Perplexity Computer, enabling the AI agent to read from and write to Postgres tables for persistent state across runs. The integration allows users to query…
As AI-generated text floods daily communications, human-written content is becoming a scarce attention asset, argues a software developer in a blog post titled "There's alpha in AI free writing." The …
Ikanos, an open source framework for Spec-Driven Integration, has automated its own release process by modeling it as a capability, turning a script into an agentic set of MCP tools that an agent can …
PostHog's Andy Vandervell argues that AI agents are not killing user interfaces but adding a new layer, citing that every product now has both human and agent users. He advises builders to design dual…
Y Combinator's open-source qm and Munder Difflin both orchestrate fleets of CLI coding agents, but qm is a headless multiplayer harness for teams via Slack and web UI, while Munder Difflin is a local-…
Viktor, an AI coworker that operates in Slack and Microsoft Teams, is being redesigned around a harness optimized for future AGI models like Fable 10 or GPT-11, according to its developers. The harnes…
Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent, an autonomous AI agent that runs as a persistent daemon and integrates with 20+ messaging platforms, offers a self-improving memory loop and 70 built-in tools…
HyperProbe, an eight-person San Francisco startup founded by Shailendra Singh and Karan Raina, launched a production-debugging tool that lets coding agents place read-only probes inside running servic…
Claire Vo, host of the podcast, demonstrates how to build an AI code review bot called Merge Mommy using Vercel Eve in 30 minutes, which reads pull requests, scores them across six risk dimensions, au…
Wispr Flow, a leading AI voice-to-text tool, launched Notetaker, its first product beyond dictation, an AI-powered meeting assistant for Mac that provides live transcripts, summaries, and action items…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are replacing traditional SaaS integrations by providing a standard way for AI agents to discover and call tools, eliminating the need for custom connectors for ea…
CopilotKit has released the Channels SDK, an MIT-licensed open source library that runs any AG-UI agent inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, with Discord and Google Chat planned. The SDK, installable via…
Prompt injection attacks against large language model (LLM) applications are increasing, with one developer reporting attacks every other day in the PromptCube channel, according to a first-person acc…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, an agent product for knowledge work that integrates with Slack, email, Drive, calendars, and hundreds of plugins, and runs on the Codex harness in a cloud…
CopilotKit has released the Channels SDK, an open-source TypeScript library that brings any AG-UI agent to messaging platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and Telegram from a single codebase…
Amazon Web Services Inc. launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator that keeps AI coding agents running 24/7, allowing developers to start tasks and walk away. Built on the Kiro developmen…
Fin, a customer service automation company, recommends nine tools for early-stage startup tech stacks in 2026, including Stripe for payments, Slack for team productivity, Granola for AI meeting notes,…
Y Combinator has open-sourced QM (quartermaster), a multiplayer agent harness for work that runs in Slack and on the web, under the MIT license. The harness, used internally by YC across accounting, l…
A human-written essay argues that as AI agents improve, tasks increasingly get automated without durable software being written, shifting from 'I write the software' to 'AI writes the software' to 'no…