these results are really interesting! i can see two sides forming: one that sees agents as an extension of their own mind - like a cyborg, and the other that sees a future version of them as independent artificial beings, capable of making their own decisions and working alongside us.
with that framing, i can see why ~70% of people said no: they imagine a future where you have brain computer interfaces that remove the need to type words into an input box. there may come a time where it no longer feels like you're chatting with another entity, agents augment you in a way that feels like an intuitive system 1 extension of your body, removing the barrier between thought and action.
i can see the argument for why chat might be final too: just think about how we collaborate with our colleagues, friends, and family: we just talk to them. you don't need anything else. i think voice chat and text chat are actually the same thing in this sense. in this category you see an agent as more of an "other", it's own entity, rather than a part of you.
which side are you on? or are you somewhere in the middle?
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say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius
And Grok @Bot only gets better from here 🚀 🚀
You could build an entire company made of Grok Bots!
Grok @bot might be the most important AI release of 2026. I'm just blown away by what it can do now.
A few days ago it felt like a niche toy and I didn't use it much... but now?! It's running parts of my workflow!
What has changed:
- It now uses Opus 5.5 when needed.
- It's MUCH faster.
- Bots have full access to X!
Bravo @spacexai @poteto @elonmusk 👏
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We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, open-sourced his entire agent setup
The core idea is one folder that every agent on his machines reads from.
A single AGENTS.MD holds his rules, and a script symlinks it into ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and ~/.codex/AGENTS.md
This way Claude Code and Codex always follow the same instructions.
Every other repo gets one line at the top:
READ ~/Projects/agent-scripts/AGENTS.MD BEFORE ANYTHING.
Change a rule once and every project picks it up.
Skills work the same way. 69 of them live in one place, each with a short description the agent reads to decide what to load, and scripts/sync-skills links them into both agents.
Fork it, replace his rules with yours, and delete the skills you do not need. His AGENTS.MD is full of his own hosts and accounts.
6.6k stars, MIT - github.com/steipete/agent-sc…
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If you told me 3 years ago I’d be spending $200/mo to spend my weekends with a model named Astra I would’ve thought I’d be up to something completely different
OpenClaw 2.0 has arrived
openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-…
Alex is leaning in hard here! Love to see it. We finally have an opening for a Third Option with people who'd never spend the time to configure a system like this by hand.
If you use AI, you need to switch to Omarchy immediately
It is an AI first, open source operating system by @dhh and it has skyrocketed my productivity
In this video I cover how to use it, how to install it, and why I'm having more fun using computers than I ever have before:
SpaceXAI engineer (ex-Cursor):
"I don’t prompt/micromanage my ~10 GrokBot agents step by step anymore.
While I sleep, my Сhief of Staff manages tasks across the bot team, and they ship PRs"
In a 30-min workshop, poteto showed how she's building a 24/7 team of Grok Bots that automate her life - and how automation changed her code (first part of video)
Worth more than 10+ guides about GrokBot and code engineering.
Watch it, learn full automation from code to life by SpaceXAI team - then read the article and set up the entire team properly ↓
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You can now set Claude Code's output style to Concise.
Claude leads with the result, keeps responses short, and still gives full detail when you ask.
Turn it on in /config → Output style, or set "outputStyle": "Concise" in settings.json.
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Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like.
Becoming really easy to see how the way we use the web is going to totally change.
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GTA 6 has a billion-dollar budget.
But can it run on a $5 Forge VPS like my upcoming MUD? 🧙♂️
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This is a critical post to read if you’re building an applied AI company right now.
“An application earns its place in the untrainable corner by doing unglamorous work: arranging a company's private reality so a model can act on it, handing the model the tools to act, working with the customer to change the reality of its workforce. A company that brings the translation is tough to copy – and the translation never ends. Integration and maintenance run as long as the relationship does, won by teams that put domain-specialized engineers and tools next to the customer.”
There’s still an insanely large gulf between model capabilities and what it takes to apply them to specific corporate workflows. Some of that is technology that needs to be built, a lot is access to (and formatting of) the right data to work with, and a ton more is on the change management and specific implementation work (FDEs, etc.) it takes to make AI work in any specific corporate setting.
2 things can be very true at once: frontier models and labs will continue to grow an incredible amount, and there will be a vast ecosystem of software and services companies that emerge to bring the power of these models to real enterprises. This makes room for new infrastructure provides, applied AI companies in every vertical, new versions of system integrators, and more players.
Incredibly exciting time on all fronts.
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This is what the market got wrong about AI eating enterprise software. Building good software in the past was very hard. Yes, AI has made that a bit easier, though it’s still hard to build something that’s got good taste, differentiated, high quality, secure, and so on.
But nevertheless, that’s only one component of building a platform that enterprises rely on. The plurality of costs in most enterprise software companies is actually on GTM, because at scale most enterprise software categories are tough to break into and need a heavy amount of consultative selling and support for implementation and integration of solutions.
AI hasn’t reduced the need for that, and in many cases requires it even more now, as landscapes get even more busy and complicated for buyers to navigate through. If you make one thing cheaper and more abundant (development of software) then the new problem of discoverability and market differentiation (GTM) becomes the hardest part.





































