AI Tools

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I built a working app in 47 minutes without writing a single line of code. Then a button stopped working, and I spent three hours trying to figure out why. That’s vibe coding in a nutshell — and if you’ve been anywhere near AI Twitter lately, you’ve heard the hype. “I built a SaaS in a weekend!” “Non-coders can ship now!” “The future is here!” All of that is technically true. What they don’t tell you is what happens on day two. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been watching AI agents evolve for months, and most of them share the same problem: they’re built for people who already know how to code. Anthropic just changed that. Their new feature called Cowork runs directly inside the Claude desktop app, reads and edits files on your computer, and requires nothing more than typing what you want in plain English. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been using Google Search my entire adult life, and until last month, the experience barely changed. You type a few words, hit enter, scroll through blue links. That’s the interface I learned at fourteen, and it’s the same one I was using last week. So when Google announced at I/O 2026 that they were redesigning the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries start every day — I paid attention. This isn’t a minor tweak. It’s the biggest change to how we interact with Google since the product launched over 25 years ago. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Claude Code is one of the best AI coding agents available in 2026. It’s also $200 a month for the Max plan, locks you into Anthropic’s models, and sends your code to Anthropic’s servers. For a lot of developers — and especially for people who aren’t developers but want to use AI to build things — that’s a problem. Enter Goose: an open-source, free alternative built by Block (the company behind Square) and now governed by the Linux Foundation. I tested it for a week, and the gap between “free” and “$200/month” is smaller than you’d think. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. You’re scrolling through Amazon, looking at a product, and something feels off. The lighting is too perfect. The background is suspiciously clean. The product looks almost… too good. You’re not paranoid — you’re probably looking at an AI-generated product image, and they’re becoming incredibly common. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’ve used Slack in the last year, you’ve probably noticed Slackbot getting smarter. That’s not your imagination — Salesforce rebuilt it from a simple auto-responder into a full AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude, and it’s been generally available since January 2026. The catch? Most of the documentation assumes you’re a developer or an IT admin. I’m neither, so I spent a week figuring out what Slackbot can actually do for regular users — and where it still falls short. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something shifted in AI last week, and most people missed it. On June 17, a Chinese company called Z.ai released an open-source model called GLM-5.2 — and it beat GPT-5.5 on multiple coding benchmarks. Not “almost matched.” Not “close enough.” Actually beat it. At roughly one-sixth the cost. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If your entire business runs on Claude, last week should have scared you. On June 12, 2026, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to pull its most powerful models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — offline. Not because the models were broken. Not because Anthropic did something wrong. Because a jailbreak was flagged as a national security risk, and the government gave Anthropic 90 minutes to comply. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I used to check AI leaderboard scores the way some people check Yelp reviews — quickly, trustingly, and without thinking too hard about who’s writing them. Then I saw the SWE-Bench Pro data, and now I look at every benchmark number sideways. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been making AI music for months — I even released an album without knowing theory — but there was always one problem: you couldn’t legally use someone else’s song. That just changed. Spotify and Universal Music Group signed a licensing deal that lets Premium users generate AI covers and remixes of licensed tracks from participating artists. For the first time, you can take a song you love, run it through an AI voice model, and share the result — without getting a takedown notice. ...