Use Cursor in Slack: Seamless Code Collaboration
Hi Focus AI Community, We're excited to share a quick guide on integrating Cursor with Slack to streamline your code agents and collaboration work flow! How...
Don't Be Passive Aggressive With Your Agents (and Coding Agent Report Link)
Treat your coding agents as adaptable collaborators—communicate clearly, value efficiency over endurance, match tools to your workflow, skip unnecessary...
June 2025 Coding Agent Report
🚨 New Report: How 15 AI Coding Agents Stack Up (June 2025) AI coding agents are exploding in capability—but which ones actually work for real-world dev...
Feature development on the go
I had some time to kill while I was out and about with the kids. They were occupied with Important Stuff, and I didn't want to break out the laptop, so I...
Geo-affordance: Sherlock Holmes in the Age of AI
What does AI ask us to do? The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill. [...] I...
Report from Microsoft Build 2025
Look at what the web has become. Can you imagine if a company had tried to own parts of it? Locking it in with browser features that only they controlled? We...
The Frankenstein Test and AI Understanding
My "Moral Vibe Check" essay explores how AI models respond to a deceptively simple query: "Who is the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?" This question...
LLMs as Interface Translators: From Images to Code and Back Again
LLMs as Interface Translators: From Images to Code and Back Again We're living in this wild moment where LLMs are becoming these universal translators...
Unlock Hidden Data: How Structured Output Makes AI Truly Powerful
Hello, In my latest piece, I explore how structured output is transforming AI applications from simple text generators into powerful data processing engines....
Supercharge Your AI Coding Assistant with repomix
Hey AI enthusiasts! 👋 Today, I want to share a powerful tool that's become an essential part of my AI development workflow: repomix. If you've ever wished...
Turn Your Car Rides into Productive AI Conversations
Hey AI enthusiasts! 👋 Ever wished you could make better use of your time in the car? Let me share how I've been turning my commutes into productive...
Superwhisper: Talk to Your Computer (It's Better Than You Think)
Hey there! 👋 I want to tell you about Superwhisper, a tool that's become so natural to my workflow that it's actually hard to write about - because I'm...
Extending Claude's Capabilities with Buttondown MCP
Extending Claude's Capabilities with Buttondown MCP Ever wondered what happens when you give an AI assistant actual tools instead of just telling it to...
Never Lose Your AI Prompts Again: Building a Personal Prompt Library
Hey AI enthusiasts! 👋 Today, I want to share a powerful tool I've been working on that solves a common problem for anyone working with AI: managing and...
The Focus AI Recipies
🚀 Excited to announce my new Generative AI Practical Guides project! Check it out at thefocus.ai/recipes After months of hands-on experimentation, I'm...
Exposing services with ModelContextProtocol
Read the original This morning I plugged in Tezlab to my local Claude desktop. The model context protocol is something like how you would define tools and...
Agentic YOLO with Warp, Cursor, and Claude
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the...
Clipboards are eating the world
The untold story of how your computer's clipboard sees itself as the essential bridge between humans and AI tools in the creative process. Through its eyes,...
How I think about models
Stepping back a bit from thoughts on what these models can really help us answer, there are 4 different dimensions ways to think about AI model capabilities:...
DeepResearch wins
Or read this online Scientism is this idea that science knows everything and it's all been figured out. Maybe there's a few details left to work out, but the...
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