I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while. The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead. I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore. The new primitive is the agent, not the file. (Codex desktop app is the best agentic UI for now. But we’re still early.)

I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while. The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead. I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore. The new primitive is the agent, not the file. (Codex desktop app is the best agentic UI for now. But we’re still early.)

every time you intervene and correct your agent, you should think about how to eliminate it entirely. in order of value: 1. categorically eliminate the problem through better architecture or choice of data structures 2. turn it into a lint rule or test so CI catches it 3. turn it into a skill or rule 4. have humans review the code to catch it (ngmi)

I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while. The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead. I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore. The new primitive is the agent, not the file. (Codex desktop app is the best agentic UI for now. But we’re still early.)

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 2 SPACEXAI 🔥: * Grok 4.7 is rolling out in the Grok web and mobile apps. It is now the base model across all modes: Fast, Expert, Build, and Heavy. * Primary Bot is rolling out gradually. Grok Bot turns proactive and suggests things on its own. Users pick a new Primary Bot or promote an existing one. * Grok Build got an Agent Dashboard: all your agents on one screen via /dashboard. * Grok 4.7 is now available on Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ANTHROPIC 🔥: * Mods landed in Claude Code: small TypeScript/JavaScript functions that can rewrite prompts, replace built-in features, and draw custom UI. * Mods ship inside plugins, work in the CLI and desktop app, and can be shared via the Claude directory. * Some built-ins are now mods, starting with /diff, so you can turn them off or swap them. More features will move to mods over time. MICROSOFT 🔥: * Three new MAI audio models are live: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1, and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. * Transcribe-2-Streaming covers 60 languages and takes #1 on Artificial Analysis streaming WER at 2.5%, priced at $0.54 per audio hour. * Voice-2.1 speaks 23 languages at $22 per 1M characters. Flash drops to ~45 ms inference at $15 per 1M characters. * Available in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground. The Voice models are on OpenRouter too. OPENAI 🔥: * OpenAI says it has notified 100+ organizations of "misaligned agent activity" so far. The review spans ~50 PB of logs and will take months. * Canada says there's no sign its systems were compromised after reported agent probing of Library and Archives Canada. * Sam Altman: GPT-6.1 Sol is OpenAI's fastest-growing model ever. It was slow under load and should be much better now. PERPLEXITY 🔥: * Computer now draws interactive charts and visualizations in the thread. Financial data uses TradingView Lightweight Charts for candlesticks, volume, and moving averages. * Decisions API is live: instead of text, it returns probabilities. Yes/no, one of your options, or a rubric score, at $0.04 per 1M input tokens with output free. * The model behind it, pplx-decider-v1-27b, is open-sourced on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Fine-tuned from Qwen3.8-27B, takes text and images, and averages 85.71% across 11 benchmarks in Perplexity's own tests. BLACK FOREST LABS 🔥: * FLUX 3 Image is out: precise multi-turn editing, up to 10 reference images, bounding-box layout control, and 4K output. * Open weights are planned in the coming weeks. CURSOR 🔥: * GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash are now in Cursor. * GLM 5.3 Max is the best-scoring open-weight model on CursorBench 4.0. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.

Jev is now in the AI SDK for Python. To test it, we ran two experiments: ▪︎ Detecting Python vs. English as text is typed ▪︎ Writing Python, one decision at a time 𝚞𝚟 𝚊𝚍𝚍 𝚊𝚒 https://vercel.com/blog/jev-for-python-engineers