Hey folks,

I see so many posts ‘shipping by the beach’ or when out with the kids on the weekend.

Umm, good for you? I’m not sure it’s the flex people think it is.

Remember when we thought AI would take all our jobs so we didn’t have to work hard anymore? Yeah, turns out that’s not a thing. Everyone’s just even more mad for making things.

Myself included. But I do draw the line at 1. talking to agents every second I’m not at my laptop and 2. if I’m with the kids.

Whether that’s just the mental context switching is too hard or I’m just not a very hard-worker. You decide :)

But that’s all not to say that I absolutely want agent access on my mobile for whenever the moment strikes. Unfortunately for me, it’s usually when I should be going to sleep.

I end up just laying there doing the luge while all the ideas swirl around my head when I should be reading + sleeping.

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Headlines

Updates for Remote Control in Claude Code - you can now start a new Claude Code session from your phone, dropped connections between your laptop and phone recover themselves, and the sessions load faster on iOS.

Claude Academy - Anthropic’s collection of courses, tutorials and job-specific guides to use Claude. All the resources are free and open to anyone. Also read: Anthropic’s approach to teaching and learning AI.

You can connect ChatGPT to Apple Messages. It can search messages, catch you up on conversations, and draft or send replies from your Mac. It’s available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop. Also from OpenAI:

• GPT-Image-2 can now generate transparent backgrounds in the API.

• GPT-5.6-Sol is now 20% cheaper in the API - $4/$24 for 1M input/output tokens.

Grok Bot is now available to more users - all SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+ and Cursor Teams subscribers now have access. Plus there’s a free trial for a week that’s enough to get you hooked.

Claude Mythos 5 will power Claude Security for enterprise customers. This is the first rollout of Mythos outside Project Glasswing.

Deepgram just dropped Flux TTS, text-to-speech built for live conversation. It responds in as low as 80ms, carries context across turns, and handles interruptions natively. Spin up a stream and test it on your stack.*

My feed

• Skydive - an always-on agent across Slack, email, iMessage and CLI, with your choice of model. I’m an investor. (read more)

• Nvidia and SpaceX are planning to launch GPUs to space.

• A Mac app that turns your agent traces into memory.

• A skill to find inconsistencies, bugs and design errors in your product.

• One of the best anti-slop skills and 10 more to explore.

• Two “explain it simply” skills: /eli5 and /eli5-for-grownups.

• Stripe MCP - Analyse your Stripe data with agents.

• Shopify’s founder built an open-source git store. (inspired by Cursor)

• Andrew Ng’s list of skills you need to build and deploy AI applications.

• A museum of AI interfaces.

• A visual guide to AI chip architectures.

• Designing Grok Bot with Grok Bot.

• Is your website ready for agents?

• What if everything goes right for AI? Learnings from the Aluminium trade.

• Should you be in the business of selling data to frontier labs?

• deblaot.dev - open-source replacements for bloated vendor software.

• Spline rebuilt its 3D editor with Agent Mode and an MCP.

• FigmaTrace - computer-use dataset for design.

• Search for agents - Firecrawl’s developer index, Exa’s plugin for codex/Claude Code, and Parallel’s fast mode for 10x cheaper search.

• Sam Altman on David Senra’s podcast + transcript broken into small chapters.

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Afters

Sarah Chieng @MilksandMatcha I made Claude compete against itself. The smartest model does not automatically make the best agent. To prove it, I took the same Opus 4.6 model, initial prompt, and empty repo and but it inside two different coding harnesses: Claude Code vs. @FactoryAI Droid. The task: clone 4:06 PM · Aug 24, 2026 · 43K Views 14 Replies · 12 Reposts · 104 Likes

Rob Pruzan @RobKnight__ Introducing terminal-code: VS Code inside the terminal - VS Code compatible CLI - works over ssh - syncs with your terminal theme terminal-code.com 4:01 PM · Aug 19, 2026 · 2.6M Views 518 Replies · 622 Reposts · 7.67K Likes

Ali Spittel @ASpittel i really don't want to use your agent, i want to use my agent to use your thing. 7:49 PM · Aug 21, 2026 · 671K Views 256 Replies · 418 Reposts · 4.52K Likes

Theo - t3.gg @theo Rough tier list of where I'd put every major model right now 9:33 PM · Aug 22, 2026 · 3.37M Views 1.47K Replies · 715 Reposts · 14.8K Likes

Kuber @kuberwastaken just Claude writing a MacOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows support 3:45 PM · Aug 17, 2026 · 3.89M Views 334 Replies · 835 Reposts · 18.9K Likes

almonk @almonk The worst part of the otherwise excellent Logitech mice & keyboards has always been the software. Nice to see an open source, local-only desktop app alternative launch openlogi.org 7:00 PM · Aug 22, 2026 · 732K Views 201 Replies · 485 Reposts · 10.1K Likes

Tyler Angert @tylerangert ive been using just regular md files checked into my monorepo for managing tasks / intermediate work docs for my agents, and it's really useful because they're "just files" but there's a ton of extra work to keep them up to date, keep proper relational structure between objects 3:09 PM · Aug 24, 2026 · 8.5K Views 34 Replies · 1 Repost · 71 Likes

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav @reach_vb incredible use of computer history “based on my computer history, what single-use software would make my life easier?” computer history turns your activity across apps and websites into memories and a timeline, so codex can spot repeated workflows and build the little tools 2:43 PM · Aug 20, 2026 · 10.6K Views 22 Replies · 6 Reposts · 236 Likes

Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke Friend just showed me how he's using a small army of voice agents with fake resumes to knock out expert network calls @ $1500/hr. The old world is unprepared for the new world. 10:26 PM · Aug 20, 2026 · 366K Views 69 Replies · 28 Reposts · 1.57K Likes

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