Plugging AI into the real world: hardware standards and agent control In the last 24 hours, AI folks have been buzzing about how AI agents can finally talk to and control real-world gear — not just software. Anthropic unveiled the Model Hardware Standard, a research-preview spec that lets agents operate microscopes, robot arms and other lab gear by reading a...
AI Builder Brief: Co-coding in Slack, Hiring Signals, Governance, Client Wins
Slack Code: AI turns coding into a group project This morning’s AI chatter landed with a bang: Slack Code lets teams co-create software inside shared channels, with AI agents doing the coding while humans steer and review. It sounds barking fly, but there’s real design thinking in here about how we collaborate as a team. Slack channels become living coding...
AI agents aren’t magic—they’re a file system for your workflow
Personal agents: it’s really about the file system Over the last 24 hours the chatter across newsletters has hinted that AI agents aren’t a shiny new product so much as a smarter way to organise our thinking. The core idea is simple: design the setup, not the hype. One main agent (a Jarvis-like hub) or several task-oriented agents live inside...
Agents, not monoliths: Practical AI for designers
Agent-first design tools are changing how we build I’ve been sifting through the latest newsletters this morning, and the trend is clear: agent-first design tools are no longer fringe experiments. BB is getting a lot of love as a new, extendable app that turns any chat/AI model into a lightweight IDE you can tailor with plugins. (I’m impressed by how...