Tom Elliot

When LinkedIn started showing me pop ups to play games, it made me think it really jumped the shark.

I couldn't work out why they'd have games. Attention economy? As a hidden "intelligence" test they could use as a data point to sell to recruiters?

Screenshot of Cursor's update notification talking about using agents on web or mobile

This direction was such a surprise to me, but I love it:

Using coding agents where you are, instead of just in the IDE: First Slack and now web and mobile.

Building software is no longer just tied to being hunched over a keyboard for endless hours.

Screenshot of https://status.anthropic.com/ showing degraded performance and errors for Claude 4 Opus

Struggle street today

I've been experimenting with background agents the past few days to see how far I can get hands off.

I'm finding it's a huge kickstart for getting the scaffolding and basics up and running, but then I still need to come in and polish things in a more iterative way

Just saw the update on Cursor's Slack integration - cooler than I thought!

I assumed it was just sending you updates on background agent status, but it actually lets you launch an agent. It will read the context from the thread as well

I love clickens

I'm curious if this has been measured at all. It's definitely apparent subjectively, but I don't think I've seen any measure of it reported.

These are sounding and looking delicious.

Yeah this feels like a must have for agents systems

Random "well why not?" project I'm working on today thanks to AI making coding easier:

Making a web app that syncs data from my smart scale, so I don't need the terrible proprietary app on my phone.

I had no idea there was a (very poorly supported) BLE API for the browser, but the LLM did.

Yep, I get some analysis every week or two and avoid the rollercoaster

If there was a training set that was valid, I'd prefer the platforms identified them and made it clear

You taken the cow for a cruise out on the streets outside the race tracks?

Very cool

There's a feature that lets you share clips? I didn't even realise the switch 1 had that - super cool

Tooltip saying "Failed to start Background Agent. [internal] internal error - Try Again"

Cursor Background agent is borked for me - you too?

I just updated to 1.0 and it's stuck on this now ☹️

Yeah gotta get into the data center business

AI spending is growing incredibly - so much money going into this.

Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Google and Meta:
- expected to top $345 billion this year, up 41% from 2024
- data center business is going to be up 73% from 2024

(Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology podcast)

AI in a nutshell

It's Donna Summer and Giorgo Moroder btw

This week's fun test - which model can identify these people

❌ Claude 4
❌ ChatGPT 4.1
❌ ChatGPT 4.5
✅ Gemini 2.5 Flash

@justinjackson.ca @briancasel.com a few weeks ago you said folks should message you on a Thursday morning in case you haven't got guests sorted for The Panel this week.

I'd love to chat!

I can share a bit about the SaaS I launched last year that's now on autopilot, and what I'm working on next

The Dude vibes

Yeah fair enough! Maybe they've got what they need for v0 and don't want to keep investing

I haven't heard anything about them killing shadcn-ui - did they suggest they might?

Such professionalism - not even leaking the db on livestream!

Oh I mean it's gonna be there, it's not gonna be the same as 5 years ago though. And there'll be a lot more people engaging in more curated spaces instead

But I think it's pretty clear lots will!

Yeah - really happy to have this common across the vendors so we can pick and choose