Tools

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been thinking about hiring a lot lately — not because I’m hiring, but because the entire process is getting weird. Last week, a Stockholm startup called Fika Jobs raised $4 million to build a platform where AI agents conduct video interviews with job candidates. Not screening calls. Not resume filters. Actual 10-minute conversations where an AI asks questions, records responses, and builds a video profile that employers browse. If you’re a solo builder who’s ever struggled to hire — or wondered how AI agents are going to change the job market — this one’s for you. ...

I spent three years telling myself I’d start making videos “next quarter.” The lighting setup, the awkward re-takes, the way my eyes dart to the script on my laptop — it all felt like too much friction for a 90-second clip. Then a colleague showed me HeyGen, and I realized I’d been overthinking it entirely. If you’ve been circling the same excuse, here’s the short version: you can produce a talking-head video without ever turning on a camera, and the result looks like you hired a videographer. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been using HeyGen for talking-head videos for a while now. Write a script, pick an avatar, export. It works. But last month I typed a single sentence into their Video Agent feature and watched it build an entire video from scratch: scenes, pacing, visuals, captions, music. All of it. That’s when I realized the tool had quietly become something much bigger than an avatar generator. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something interesting happened in the AI coding world this year. Claude Code went from “cool demo” to “developers are posting screenshots of it building entire apps from a paragraph-long prompt.” Google engineers are saying publicly that it replicated a year of their team’s work in an hour. And at the same time, a small open-source lab called Nous Research quietly released a model that matches or beats several proprietary systems — trained in four days, on 48 GPUs, and released for free. If you’re a solo builder watching AI coding tools evolve and wondering whether you need to start budgeting $200 a month for Claude Code, this is the article you need to read. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been watching developers post screenshots of their Claude Code bills lately, and the numbers are wild. Some people are spending $200 a month on a single AI coding tool. Others are running up bills they didn’t expect because agentic coding burns through tokens faster than regular chat. And then last month, a small research lab called Nous Research dropped a model that scores within striking distance of the best proprietary coding AIs — and gave it away for free. The economics of AI coding tools are about to shift, and if you’re building anything online, you should be paying attention. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent three hours last month screening resumes for a freelance project manager. Forty applications, eight shortlisted, and I still couldn’t tell which ones could hold a real conversation. That gap between what a resume says and what a person can actually do is exactly what a new wave of video-first AI hiring tools is trying to close. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something shifted in AI over the past few months, and most people haven’t noticed yet. The way AI works — the fundamental unit of how you interact with it — is changing from a single question-and-answer to a continuous loop. And if you’re not paying attention, you’re going to miss the biggest upgrade to AI tools since ChatGPT launched. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Commerce Department gave Anthropic roughly 90 minutes to pull two of its newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, offline worldwide. The trigger: a jailbreak found by Amazon researchers that could coax Mythos into revealing restricted cybersecurity vulnerability information, reported to the White House by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. It was the first time the government used national security export controls to force an AI company to shut down its products globally. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Every few weeks, another AI company drops a model and calls it “open source.” They release the weights, write a blog post, and wait for the applause. But here’s what they don’t give you: the training data, the reward functions, the evaluation harness, the infrastructure code — basically everything you’d need to actually understand how the model works or build on top of it. Nous Research just did something different with NousCoder-14B, and if you care about where AI coding tools are heading, it’s worth paying attention. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Everyone’s selling you an AI tool in 2026. Every newsletter, every podcast, every X thread: “you NEED this in your stack.” I’ve tested more of these than I’d like to admit, and most of them are solving problems you don’t have. The useful question changed sometime last year. It used to be “can it do something cool?” Now it’s “does it actually save me time?” Those are different questions. A tool that generates impressive demos but requires 45 minutes of prompt engineering to get a usable output isn’t productivity; it’s a hobby. By my own accounting, the five tools that survived my 2026 cull cost $65-100/month combined and save me one to two hours a day. Everything else got cancelled. ...