The newsletter for the technically curious. Updates, tool reviews, and lay of the land from an exited founder turned investor and forever tinkerer.
Hey folks,
Prism by OpenAI - It’s a LaTeX editor for scientists to draft/work on research papers with AI. Free for ChatGPT users, with unlimited projects and collaborators. It has an editor that both you and GPT-5.2 can edit, and a preview that renders the LaTeX input. Read more on their blog. Also, Prism’s founder went from idea to OpenAI in less than 16 months.
Two thoughts on this:
Last year, the first release from OpenAI was Operator - a web browsing agent, and we saw dozens of variations of it in 2025. This year might be document editors.
AI for developers is a relatively solved problem for OpenAI. Their next “frontier” target audience is definitely scientists with plans to build an AI researcher intern by Sept 2026.
— Keshav
Related: OpenAI’s CFO, Sarah Friar, recently talked about licensing OpenAI models to companies in a way that if they contribute to a discovery, OpenAI can get a piece of the pie. (more clarifications)
Gemini 3 Flash can now plan how to analyse an image and use tools to zoom in and annotate it for better visual understanding. It increases performance on visual benchmarks by 5-10%. Google calls it “Agentic Vision”, though OpenAI’s models have had this since o3.
Chrome is also becoming an AI browser. The Gemini integration now opens a sidebar with features like image generation, access to other Google tools, and auto-browsing. Only in the US for now.
Give your AI the power to listen. Gladia is a speech-to-text API that turns real conversations into structured data for agents, workflows, and automation. ~300ms latency, 94% accuracy, and a lightweight SDK lets you add production-grade voice in minutes. Test real-time or async in our playground.*
🌐 What I’m consuming
AI-assisted development at Block - Repo readiness, parallel agents and automated PRs.
How can agents automate improving a software product using a closed loop of user feedback to shipped features?
Can AI make you feel disempowered about your reality - new research from Anthropic.
How does the creator of Clawdbot (now Moltbot) ship?
⚙️ Tools and demos
PropelAuth is the #1 choice for developers building in B2B. Signup/Login, MCP, RBAC, Enterprise SSO, and more, all out of the box.*
Momo - Stop asking your team for progress updates. Connect all your work tools and build your team’s memory.
Ami Browser - Build a feature → your agent tests the web app and fixes bugs.
Manus Skills - Turn a session into a skill or import Skills from others.
o11 - The copilot you deserve in all your Microsoft 365 Apps.
Shortcut - The Excel AI agent that you can actually use and works better than Claude, Copilot and others. (demo on 4 real tasks)
Variant - Enter an idea and get endless (beautiful) designs as you scroll. (see more)
🥣 Dev Dish
Ian built this skills directory with a file explorer to read the skill, an upvote/downvote system and a cli to bring them to your projects.
Beautiful Mermaid - Render diagrams to understand your code, but cleaner than plain Mermaid.
Rivet - Universal API for automatic coding agents in sandboxes. (docs)
vercel-react-native-skills - Lessons from building the v0 iOS app and Vercel app.
OpenInspect - Open-source background coding agent system inspired by Ramp’s Inspect.
Gemini CLI has hooks now and hence a Ralph Wiggum extension.
🍦 Afters
Flapping Airplanes - new foundational lab with $180M in seed funding to make training for AI models more data efficient. Kate from WSJ has a write-up on this company and the growing category of neolabs.
Anduril is hosting an autonomous drone racing competition to compete for $500,000 and a job at Anduril.
Snap is making Specs (its unit for building AI glasses) a distinct subsidiary.
Many members of the Cline team have joined Codex.
That’s it for today. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts. 👋
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Man re: Prism, that's putting Overleaf on notice. Especially as Overleaf is jacking up prices.
This consolidation in tech is a mega trend