Hey folks,
Heading to a Q&A with Sam Altman later today in London so a bit rushed for time to part any ‘wisdom’.
I’m currently still mid-building the reference manual, but it’s coming along now! I’ll release a couple preview lessons hopefully by next week.
I’m using Codex as my ‘workhorse’ agent. Mostly because it’s easiest access on mobile while plugged into all my local files. I’m using it for a bunch of automations, check my inbox and triage (rip my little email build), ingesting a bunch of my twitter bookmarks to summarise all the stuff I’m saving and organising it into topics in my memory system - so i can ask ‘what do we know about agent memory’ and it’ll pull from all the posts i’ve saved.
I spent a lot of time talking to agents less, unless I was actually working. But I’m now leaning back into just talk to agents about everything.
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SpaceX is acquiring Cursor for $60B in an all-stock deal. Cursor also launched a few new things at Compile, their first conference (it had chalkboards on stage).
Midjourney (the image generation company) is building an ultrasonic body scanner under a new division called Midjourney Medical, and a Spa in San Francisco.
Claude Design now follows your design system, lets you edit the canvas directly & syncs with Claude Code plus more tools like Replit. On the design tool theme: Framer now connects to external agents like Claude Code and Codex, and v0 has a new design mode.
OpenAI’s financials got leaked - Ed Zitron says audited 2025 financials show $13.07B revenue and $34B costs, with Jack Raines adding useful context on the margin debate. Also, Noam Shazeer, Google’s Gemini co-lead and Transformer co-author, is joining OpenAI.
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Before Fable was removed, I used it to make a tiny CLI utility for moving files between my Samsung S24 Ultra and my M3 MacBook Air.
I just wanted to plug the phone in with a cable and move photos, screenshots, PDFs, etc. without downloading another random app or uploading everything over WiFi.
It suggested two options, guided me through the setup (which only took 30 secs), and then wired everything by itself.
The only hiccup was the terminal command it picked for this utility: droid, which was already being used by Droid, the coding agent from Factory AI.
I renamed it to phone, and now I can search photos, videos or any file on my phone from my Mac terminal, and transfer files both ways: my phone to my Mac, and my Mac to my phone.
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