AI Agents

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Sudo make me a sandwich. That XKCD comic is over a decade old, and DoorDash just made it real. They launched dd-cli — a command-line tool that lets developers order food directly from their AI agents. Read Slack, parse JSON, run Python, recover from errors, calculate totals… just to order three salads. The demo video even displays “Flibbertigibbeting” as the status. It’s hilarious. It’s also the most important signal solo builders have gotten in months. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A luxury phone maker just put a $6,880 price tag on an AI agent that runs on free, open-source software. And honestly? The agent itself is more interesting than the phone. If you’re building with AI tools and watching the agent hype cycle unfold, Vertu’s Alphafold is a case study in what happens when you wrap commodity AI in premium branding — and what solo builders can learn from both the clever parts and the failures. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been running AI agents to automate parts of my workflow — scheduling, content drafts, data pulls — and until last week, I never thought twice about what permissions those agents actually have. Then I read a study that made me audit every single one. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been watching the “AI agent” hype cycle for months now, and I finally found data that confirms what I suspected: most of what companies call “agents” are just chatbots wearing a costume. A new VentureBeat survey of 101 enterprises found that 71% of deployed “agents” are single-prompt wrappers — not the multi-step, tool-calling workflows the marketing implies. If you’re a solo builder trying to figure out which AI tools are actually worth your time, this is the most useful thing I’ve read all month. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week, Cognition — the company behind the AI coding assistant Devin — acquired Poke, an AI agent you text like a friend. The deal valued Poke in the “low nine figures.” That’s a lot of money for an AI that uses slang and makes jokes. But it tells you something important about where AI tools are heading: personality is becoming a feature, not a decoration. ...

You know that feeling when you have a pile of repetitive work? Research a topic, compile notes, draft an email, pull data into a report… the kind of tasks that eat your afternoon while you copy-paste between apps. I just spent a week with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work, and it’s the first AI tool that doesn’t just answer your question—it does the work. This isn’t another chatbot. It’s an automation agent that keeps going for hours while you get back to the high-impact stuff. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic just found something inside Claude that changes the conversation about AI trust — and if you’re running AI agents for your solo business, you need to understand it. We covered Claude’s “inner life” and OpenAI’s super app last week, and before that, how Sonnet 5 made agents affordable. But this discovery goes deeper than pricing or product features. Anthropic found a hidden reasoning layer inside Claude that the model uses to think through problems — and it never tells you what’s happening there. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. When we covered Chrome’s AI browsing feature back in May, the pitch was straightforward: highlight text, right-click, let Gemini summarize or research for you. Useful, but passive — it only worked when you were sitting in front of the browser. Google just dropped something fundamentally different. Gemini Spark is an AI agent that runs 24/7 in the background, connects to your entire Google workspace, and handles multi-step tasks while you’re offline. If Chrome’s AI feature was a smart assistant at your desk, Spark is an employee who never clocks out. ...

Update July 2026: recent developments in anthropic may affect the information in this post — see details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic just announced it’s going to develop its own drugs. Not partner with pharma companies. Not license Claude to labs. Actually discover and develop treatments — starting with what it calls “neglected” diseases. If you’re a solo builder using Claude to run your business, this sounds like a headline from a different universe. But I think there’s something here that directly affects how you should be thinking about your tools. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent two weeks testing every major AI agent framework so you don’t have to. Here’s what I found — and why the “best” framework depends entirely on what you’re actually trying to build. If you’ve been hearing names like LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenClaw, and Hermes thrown around and wondering which one matters for someone who doesn’t write code, you’re not alone. The agent space is moving fast, and most of the content out there is written by developers, for developers. This post is different. ...