Hand-Picked Content
Hype Running Ahead of Tech Innovation
Podcast, 5min
The hype around Manus – another Chinese AI startup, specifically, an AI agent startup – is hard to miss. You can drop a task or a file with minimal instructions, and it starts working without asking questions, just returning a solution. Practically, it often fails, throws errors, and doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Nonetheless, it offers a glimpse of what we can expect from the next cohort of AI agent startups that will ship more polished products. Listen to the first few minutes of this podcast to hear what users are creating with it and where it falls short.
Vibe-Coded Startups
Article, 5 min
A quarter of startups in Y Combinator’s (one of the world’s largest startup accelerators) current batch have codebases that are 95% AI-generated. These aren’t novices but highly skilled engineers who could code traditionally yet choose AI instead. This “vibe coding” approach focuses on using natural language to create code rather than typing it line by line.
“This isn’t a fad. This isn’t going away. This is the dominant way to code. And if you are not doing it, you might just be left behind,” said Garry Tan, YC CEO.
A Satisfactory Answer?
Blog, 1 min
Asking AI for direction isn’t always a good idea. AI assistants cheer you on (“great idea”) and might get you in the wrong direction or confuse you. A close friend might be a better person to ask. A reminder about this on Seth Godin’s blog.
Hack your workflow
 🔀 Repurpose Content
Create a personal website with one prompt.
AI is the perfect way to turn your existing content into other formats. For example, what if you want to turn your LinkedIn profile into a personal website that will outlive the social network?
Here’s how to do it:
- Download your profile as PDF
- Prompt: Create a personal website about me based on my LinkedIn profile (see attached)
- Publish your site directly from ChatGPT on the web
Explore this hack in full including a video tutorial up on our blog.
Tools & Apps
No More Gibberish
AI Design
Ideogram is a text-to-image AI app that excels at what many AI image tools struggle with: properly adding text to generated images. While other tools often produce garbled text or strange letter combinations, Ideogram consistently creates clean, readable text that stays true to your prompt. (Example)
The AI Assistant That Follow Through
Productivity
Proxy is an AI assistant that stood out to me in the crowded AI helper space. It focuses on task completion rather than just conversation. What makes Proxy particularly useful is its template system. Once you define a workflow (like extracting information from industry websites or monitoring social media activity), you can save it as a template to re-run whenever needed. There’s also a growing community sharing their templates publicly through the “Template Hub.”
AI Chat On Meeting Notes
Productivity
Krisp (first featured in issue 64) has released a desktop app with a standout feature: integrated AI chat. You can use it to ask questions about your meeting notes, but it doesn’t stop there – the AI assistant can also discuss topics not covered in your meeting. The interface keeps a clear visual connection between your notes and the AI conversation, making it easy to reference specific points while exploring new ideas.
Fresh Reflections
Comparing AI Chat Assistants
We’ve completely refreshed our in-depth article comparing all major AI chat assistants. Get a quick overview of features and pricing in our easy-to-scan comparison table.
Off-Topic Links
Robot or Not?
Short Movie, 20 min
Imagine discovering you’re actually a bot because you failed that CAPTCHA asking you to select all parts of a bridge. Existential crisis incoming.