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AI coding agents accelerate code creation. It doesn’t accelerate organisations.

How do you get started with agents in your business? I answer this with a super in-depth deep dive, step by step. makingaiagents.substack.com/p/the-best-n...

The cover of my upcoming book on Vibe Coding. What do you think?

New issue of Making AI Agents! makingaiagents.substack.com/p/6-differen...

When should you build an AI agent? A checklist in one minute. youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2gF... (Stay up to date about AI agents at makingaiagents.substack.com )

Have you vibe coded and want to take it to the next level? I was vibe coding before it was cool 😎 and I'm offering a Vibe Coding Masterclass… limited numbers, sign up now! bit.ly/vibecodingma...

When using AI coding agents, for effective results, I'm finding there is always going to be a decison to be made: "when do I change gears from "black box prompting" (nontechnical, directional, outcome-based) to "white box prompting" (technical, tactical, focused)". Familiar?

One of the things I’ve come to appreciate being with privacy folks this week is how unique Signal is at this moment. I know it’s maybe a cliche at this point, but it needs to be said.

The latest issue of Making AI Agents is out! Latest AI agent news plus a special deep dive into Deep Research: 12 different ways to do it… makingaiagents.substack.com/p/deep-dive-...

OMG some team actually went through with this.

Every UI is going to become agentic.

I’m working on a project called “AskAI”. I probably only need £50k to take it to market. But REALLY need askai.com for to be legit so I’m doing a raise for £4,050,000 wish me luck!

Feeling pretty Admiral-ish right now

“Unregulated” generally translates to “make the rich get richer” right?

New newsletter out! How to design high quality AI agents for instant productivity, reduced support & training costs. makingaiagents.substack.com/p/how-to-des...

In my experience, human effectiveness is dependent on accumulation of knowledge from direct experience. Even if AI becomes as good as humans I think we still need to train our brains with direct, diverse & empowering experiences to maximise its potential. Otherwise our brains will atrophy.

My robot vacuum cleaner knocked over a tyre that was leaning against the wall this morning. I call this art installation “brexit”.

Name one thing in your house right now that isn’t food, clothes or plants and isn’t from the US or China.

Anyone else outside the US starting to unfollow people posting about Trump’s daily hijinx? I get it: Musk and him are doing shockingly bad things. I’m just not interested in having it in my feed though.

It's nice Google offers a way to download your data but I'm not sure a week is enough to download… 884 x 2GB files… 🤯

Another issue of my Making AI Agents (MAIA) newsletter is out! My dream is that it's something people set aside and take the time to read through in-depth, because it's a biggie… makingaiagents.substack.com/p/making-ai-...

Tech is running around in a mad race to see who can make themselves redundant with AI first.

Google AI studio has a “LearnLM” mode to play the role of a tutor. This is a very exciting way to use AI to learn. Https://aistudio.google.com

I asked Deepseek Chat, a free China-based competitor to ChatGPT, to “Pick a number between 1 to be 10000. Overthink it.” Hilarity ensues.

So strange to say "yeah I'm going old skool on this process" when I'm referring to AI tech that was only released a few months ago.

Why is it that even though all my Amazon packages have been delivered there’s still something missing in my life.

We have dozens of image generators but I've failed to find one that can generate this image: "huge wave of hammers about to crash down on a beach with a few nails on it" What you typically get is an ocean wave with a few hammers and nails on the beach. Any ideas?

Making AI Agents issue 1 is out! It's my first: I'm still figuring things out so I'd very much welcome your feedback 🙏 makingaiagents.substack.com/p/making-ai-...

I found this really useful trick: if you don’t open an email, any consequences that the email might talk about don’t happen.

I’ve come up with a really good course for how to build a really useful AI agent. Believe me this is not easy with so many untested lightweight hello world demos flooding the space 😂

Me: "I can get a whole app going in a couple of hours with no technical knowledge using an AI coding agent" Also me: "Why TF won't this STUPID AI get this REALLY BASIC THING going?"🤦‍♂️🤣

Another truly outstandingly level-headed piece about AI/ML/software engineering. There are very very few newsletters in my inbox where I stop everything, sit down, and read with deep focus for 10 to 15 minutes: this is one of them. Thanks again Vicki! Long time fan! 🫡🙏

Welcome to 2025. #aiagents

If you want a blow-by-blow account of using @Replit for a SUPER fun interactive video art 🖼️ project, check this out… I present: Voronoi Cam. voronoi.replit.app See the world through voronoi tiles! Watch it pulses in time with sounds around you… It cost me $9.25 (of $50 autorefresh credits) 🧵

Zen Buddhism and JavaScript? 🤯🧘‍♂️ Are you “nontechnical”? 2025 is the year to embrace the possibility that you can use tech to build things you never dared to dream of. Look at this Zen Buddhist-inspired meditative creation made in JavaScript by a nontechnical artist. youtu.be/2BCMZMRFljI?...

I built a crewAI app just from a conversation 🤯 - AI code generators create bespoke code like this - BUT AI agent frameworks have GUIs / code bases that code agents don’t know about - You can now extend Cursor’s knowledge with the @Docs directive. More in my newsletter …

To all AI coding agent vendors: my CHAT with the agent is a first class citizen artefact of the development process. Please make it trivially available so it can be checked in, analysed, monitored in real time like any other file @windsurfai.bsky.social

“Software engineers are no longer needed” “Tier lists” are popular YouTube tools for ranking things. There’s no tool for websites. I built a website tier list app tiermaker.replit.app in a day using entirely nontechnical prompts. 1/2

Using AI coding agents has made me very spoilt. Moving from a project that uses agents to create code, to AI agent tools that DON'T is honestly shocking. The team that implements an agent to build agents is going to CLEAN UP. Updates at makingaiagents.substack.com

I’m seeing 3 target user types of AI agents: 1. Non-technical agent users: the zapier / nocode crowd. 2. Tech scripters: not day-to-day dev but comfortable w/ cmd lines & a bit of python, json, yaml, bash etc 3. Developers: “what do agents bring me that I can’t just code?” Which are you? #aiagents

Some AI agent making tools have point and click UIs. It's quite nice but OMG they're majorly missing a trick: why can't I create at least an initial flow … with AI itself…? nodescript.dev is the closest to this… doesn't work in the way I expect but it's promising…

I realise why agents are such a big deal: 1. There are about 30m software devs globally 2. There are a HELL of a lot more nontech ppl who want to automate stuff 3. Automating in a web page with lines and boxes, some of which have AI, is RADICAL. See my updates at makingaiagents.substack.com

How red hot is AI at the moment? How about an online group course that charges $350/ an HOUR per person and you pay for 17 lessons up front for $US6000. It's SOLD OUT. I solemnly swear I'll do something waaay better for a fraction of this www.mindvalley.com/mastery/ai

Obsessing about making AI Agents, I'm doing a deep-dive into the AI Agent Maker industry. 1. 40 agent makers initially 2. Mostly manual research for reference 3. Then I'll use the maker tools THEMSELVES to try and automate as much of it as possible, and then compare. 🚀 #aiagents #buildinpublic

Reflecting on the question “how much design and planning do you need to do before making an AI agent or other AI software? The need depends on the quality and structural complexity, or architecture. #aiagents

Do you need to code to build apps any more? Just built another app avoiding any technical knowledge. I documented each step. Full video to come. Key thing to share now was my wrap-up instruction: a selection of docs for future contributors. The docs it created were great particularly (3). #aiagents

Low tech meets hi tech: if you’re as old as me you might remember these kinds of water games. I asked Google Gemini to watch the game and time how long it took to get 3 green balls in the hoop. 24s! Https://aistudio.google.com/live

Giving an AI coding agent a leg up: a really useful way give @windsurf nuanced background knowledge was to: * save my in-depth technical research and design conversation with ChatGPT as markdown, and then * start the Windsurf chat with “use this chat as a basis for your instructions”. #aiagents

Pointed my phone running Google Gemini Live video mode at our kitchen table where lay the poker game I was playing with my sons in Xmas eve. We don’t play much and it was great having a live coach guiding our play. Pretty crazy to have a web page turn into a coach. aistudio.google.com/live