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How to Use Agent Skills

The team behind Claude Code's agent skills shares lessons on building, testing, and organizing skills — and the concept is converging across the entire AI stack, from hardcore developers to mainstream tools like Notion. Whether you're orchestrating multi-agent teams or just trying to get an AI to reliably do one task your way, skills represent a shift from ad hoc prompting to reusable, repeatable capabilities. In the headlines: Claude Cowork gets mobile control via Dispatch, China's government g

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

The Race to Put AI Agents Everywhere

Q1 was defined by the realization that agents are here — Q2 is shaping up as an all-out race to make them enterprise-ready. From Nvidia's Nemo Claw adding security to Open Claw, to Manus and Adaptive launching desktop agents, to OpenAI's internal "code red" refocus on enterprise and coding, every major player is converging on the same goal: getting agents out of experimentation and into production. In the headlines: Jensen Huang forecasts a trillion dollars in Nvidia revenue, Meta signs a $27 bi

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The AI Daily Brief

A Guy Used AI to Cure His Dog's Cancer*

The AI discourse is absolutely frenetic right now — everything from Karpathy's misinterpreted jobs visualization to a viral dog cancer cure story that's both less and more than it seems. NLW's argument: we're in AI's Second Moment, the agentic equivalent of the original ChatGPT shock, but with bigger capabilities, billions more people in the conversation, higher economic stakes, and an industry that's had three years to get worse at explaining itself. In the headlines: a preview of NVIDIA's GTC,

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

The Power to Shape AI

AI capabilities are compounding, disruption is rolling through markets and politics, and a growing chorus wants you to believe the only response is fear. But the narrative of learned helplessness — from scary ad campaigns with no policy ideas to moratoriums that miss the point — is more dangerous than the disruption itself, and the window to shape what AI becomes is still wide open.Ethan Mollick's Essay: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-thingLearn more about AGENT MADNESS: Our 6

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The Coolest Agents I've Built So Far

In this Operators Bonus Episode, I pit 16 different things I've built this year against each other in a March Madness-style bracket — from OpenClaw bots and vibe-coded side projects to the Sherlock Holmes-inspired agent ecosystem I'm developing for enterprise AI strategy. It's a behind-the-scenes tour of what's worked, what hasn't, and what I think has the most potential going forward.Submit to Agent Madness! https://www.agentmadness.ai/If you want to check out the AI Strategy Agents Mycroft/Hol

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The AI Daily Brief

Pro-Worker AI

A growing debate is emerging around how AI can expand human work instead of replacing it. This episode looks at the idea of “pro-worker AI,” the kinds of tools that augment expertise and create new tasks, and why the market hasn’t focused there yet—even as the opportunity becomes clearer. In the headlines: Meta delays its next model, Cursor seeks funding at a $50B valuation, Anthropic explores enterprise consulting, and new data shows 81% of doctors already use AI.Learn more about AGENT MADNESS:

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

What Vibe Coding is Turning Into

New products from Perplexity and Replit show vibe coding evolving beyond “AI helps you code” into systems that plan goals, spin up teams of agents, and execute entire workflows across apps and files. The emerging pattern combines persistent agents, collaborative canvases, and multi-agent orchestration—turning vibe coding into a broader interface for building and operating digital work. In the headlines: agents get credit cards, Anthropic surges in Ramp adoption data, OpenAI folds Sora into ChatG

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The AI Daily Brief

Why Google Workspace CLI is a Big Deal

Google has been shipping relentlessly across Gemini models, world models, multimodal tools, and Workspace updates, but the release getting the most attention from developers may actually be the new Google Workspace CLI. NLW explains why command line interfaces are suddenly central to the agent era, why developers are rethinking MCP and other abstraction layers, and how Google is quietly positioning Gemini by making its ecosystem easier for agents to use. In the headlines: Meta hires the Moltbook

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The AI Daily Brief

The Debate Over Anthropic’s New Product: Price or Existential Dread?

Claude’s new AI code review feature sparked a huge backlash this week, with developers stunned by the $15–$25 per pull request pricing. But the debate quickly became about more than cost. The controversy exposed a deeper tension about whether AI tools should be priced like software subscriptions or like labor they replace, and revealed the existential anxiety developers are feeling as agent-driven workflows begin dissolving long-standing rituals like human code review. In the headlines: Nvidia m

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The AI Daily Brief

Autoresearch, Agent Loops and the Future of Work

Andrej Karpathy released autoresearch this weekend — a system where an AI agent runs experiments to improve a language model overnight, keeping what works and discarding what doesn't, while the human sleeps. The project itself is fascinating, but what's more interesting is what it shares with the Ralph Wiggum coding loop pattern and a broader shift happening across domains — from software to sales to finance — where the human's job becomes writing the strategy document and defining "better," and

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The AI Daily Brief

10 OpenClaw Lessons for Building Agent Teams

OpenClaw has now been in the wild for a little over a month, and builders are starting to converge on what actually works. The early experiments are revealing that agent systems can be incredibly powerful but require deliberate design choices around task separation, coordination, security, memory, and cost management. This episode breaks down ten practical lessons emerging from the first wave of OpenClaw users, from structuring agent teams and using simple file-based orchestration to treating ag

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The AI Daily Brief

GPT 5.4 First Test Results

GPT 5.4 just dropped and the early consensus is clear — this is the most substantial OpenAI release in recent memory, with massive jumps in computer use, professional work tasks, and coding efficiency. NLW goes hands-on building a real project with 5.4 and Codex to see where the hype holds up and where it breaks down.Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whe

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