Tom Elliot

I was wondering what Apple's release cadence is for the M series chips. They have perfected the tick-tock cadence.

Day 2 of 5 ChatGPT Apps in 5 days A running coach - it pulls in your Strava player.mux.com/cVU9PJdZZPbY... This is more an exploration of the UX affordances and limitations/benefits of the ChatGPT integration. You can see some more info here if you’re interested www.tomelliot.net/chatgpt-apps

I made a ChatGPT app to learn about the ChatGPT Apps SDK: www.tomelliot.net/chatgpt-apps I’ve got a little video walkthrough, the repo and some learnings in case you want to know a bit about what it takes to build one

Just me that's seeing MacOS `contactsd` and `Autofill` processes regularly hold the CPU hostage for arbitrary reasons?

I wanted to try Claude in XCode. Apple: You need the XCode beta. Me: Ugh ok. Apple: But first you need the MacOS beta. Me: Ugh ok. Anthropic: You did all that? You also need a paid Claude account. No API key. I think they don't want us using it.

I wanna see a new take on "Her", except: The tension isn't that your AI girlfriend is poly and runs off with mega brain AI. The tension is that the corporate overlords behind your AI girlfriend exploit your love for it. Furthering their corporate interests. Or under pressure from the government.

From the Lovable discord: "I’m trying to build an agent that can actually execute real tasks, like creating projects, uploading files, and managing user data. However, none of the functions I’m building actually work in practice."

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.

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

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.

Cursor Background agent is borked for me - you too? I just updated to 1.0 and it's stuck on this now ☹️

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

@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

I've been trying to find the right orchestration tool for my use case: Building a simple RAG workflow using Pinecone as the vector store. I ended up liking windmill.dev the most

I'm collecting a list of all the visual agent builders - did I miss any? - Dify - n8n - Langflow - FlowiseAI (YC S23) - Relay.app - Workato - Camunda - Make - Windmill - Retool - Vellum - StackAI - Autogen - Langgraph

Can someone start a blog of all the shit AI companies use for promotion cos they're so navel gazey they don't realise how dystopian and nightmarish it is?

So much news in the past couple of weeks - google Jules - openAI Codex - Anthropic new models

People will show you a picture and say “this is me when I was younger” — every picture of you is you when you were younger! Show me a picture of you when your older—holy shit let me see that camera

Oh dang, what an exit for a design firm. Jaw dropping.

MSFT's latest add to the ever growing AI ecosystem: NLWeb (Natural Language Web) The goal: Give web sites an easy way to share info with agents. Biggest announcement: Allrecipes is on board. Your agent won't need to read a life story to get the recipe. github.com/microsoft/nlweb

"A theoretical squish velocity can be calculated from the instantaneous displacement of gas across the inner edge of the squish region..." TIL "squish" is a technical term in the design of combustion engines

This is the image you need to use on your website if you are in financial services. All the best companies are using it. It's a winner.

Anyone using beehiiv's audio newsletter feature? (as a content creator)

I've been messing around with new tools (n8n, pinecone, etc). This stuff is so impressive. Click one button and all the infrastructure for a db gets spun up for you in seconds, and then you just press another button to tear it down again.

Is anyone using Langflow for AI workflow development? I'm trying to wrap my head around a few concepts.

Building out a little RAG test with Langflow - pretty handy!

This is fun

This caught me by surprise

The official MCP server registry is just seeing the light of day. They're working out what it will and won't do - I wrote a short set of notes here in case you want to get up to speed

MCP servers are super insecure for now. This is a great example of how haywire it can get: Chrome extensions can access MCP servers and there's nothing to stop them using the MCP's tools, like reading files and exfiltrating them.

Microsoft's Azure revenue grew 35%YoY 🤯 Is OpenAI's usage really that high?

I'm finding deepwiki.com super helpful to explore a package I'm considering using - helping me find out where I can hook in if I only want to use part of the functionality

Anthropic are doing a big pro tier for Claude. $200/month gets you bigger rate limits (no more "wait 8 hours please") techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/a...

Llama 4's scores on LM Arena got downgraded - their initial scores weren't using the vanilla model, they were using a model tuned to perform well on the benchmarks. techcrunch.com/2025/04/11/m...

I thought Webflow's MCP server wasn't going to be useful when I first heard about it. I gave it a quick test today - I guess I was wrong. If you're curious you can get an idea of how it's useful here: youtu.be/DboeEWgxAu0

Clearly someone's coming for the king. It only just occurred to me how much inspiration OpenAI is taking from Google. You see it right on the homepage.