Andrew Cove

I wanted to put my agent in a chat room with a friend's agent.

Anthropic cut Claude Code's system prompt by 80% because smarter models need less direction.

Anthropic's playground skill is one-way: you turn dials, it hands you a prompt to carry to an agent that builds the tool for real.

reach is a skill that lets your agents contact you — iMessage, email, push, whatever you actually use — without shipping a single integration.

act is a durable, agent-first task tracker. ask is an inbox the agent fills with the things only I can do.

Anthropic's Thariq made the case for agents that hand you HTML instead of markdown — and today they productized it as Artifacts in Claude Code.

Andrej Karpathy discusses applying multiple AI models to the same task, then having them each review and evaluate the combined results.

OpenAI Devs showcases GPT-5-codex capabilities for converting wireframes to responsive HTML/CSS apps with framework integration gpt-5-codex is a new model from OpenAI that is finetuned for coding, especially for front-end.

Ethan Mollick on how AI tools like Nano Banana are changing PowerPoint presentations, enabling more compelling and coherent visual storytelling I haven't played with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image yet, but this tweet is a reminder that I should.

Author: James S.

Analysis of Europe's €100B carbon market and the industrial strategy needed to compete in carbon transformation technologies I read this right as I was getting towards the end of Underground Empire, which includes a section about CBAM.

OpenAI's official cheatsheet for using GPT-5 in coding workflows While I don't use GPT for coding as much as Claude, these tips are still worth keeping in mind.

New hybrid mode uses Claude Opus for planning and Sonnet for execution I don't use Claude Opus all that often because the limits on the $20/month Pro plan are pretty low, and I've never changed from the default model in Claude Code, but I want to try out…

Ethan Mollick post describing AI tools for generating music videos I'm preparing to release an EP of original music, so video content is on my mind.

Tweet from jxnlco about AI-powered software engineering I like this list, and I'm sharing it here as a reminder to follow a few of these items in my own AI-supported coding.

Author: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman Published: 2023 ✨ Recommended How the internet and global financial systems built by idealists became tools of U.S. geopolitical power, shaping today's tech and trade tensions.

Author: Octavia E.

3 ingredients to save a bunch of money.

Author: Edwin Lefèvre Published: 1923 ✨ Recommended A fictionalized account of Jesse Livermore's trading career that illuminates the origins of Wall Street and modern financial markets.

Author: qntm Published: 2021 ✨ Recommended Fine Structure by qntm spans 22,000 years, weaving superheroes, higher dimensions, and physics-as-horror into one ambitious story.

Using an LLM to design charts and enrich data for 20 years of concerts.

How a warm bowl of delicious rice porridge felt like an act of self-care.

Recap of this year's snowboard instructor gathering for the 25th anniversary, at Copper Mountain.

3 days in April on a volcano in Oregon with Mint Tours.

Author: qntm Published: 2021 ✨ Recommended There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm explores antimemes and the cosmic horrors they can contain.

Author: qntm Published: 2021 ✨ Recommended Ra by qntm imagines a world where magic is a hard, programmable science.

Author: Ethan Mollick Published: 2024 ✨ Recommended Ethan Mollick's essential guide to integrating LLMs into work and daily life, with diverse applications and prompting techniques.

Author: Timothy Snyder Published: 2017 ✨ Recommended Twenty concise lessons drawn from periods of rising tyranny, offering practical guidance on how to resist authoritarianism.

Author: Robert A.

Author: Emily Nagoski Published: 2015 ✨ Recommended A science-backed exploration of sexuality with valuable insights, worth reading for the discussion of non-concordance alone.

A week in southern BC, 7 years since my last visit—some things have changed.

Author: Cixin Liu Published: 2021 ✨ Recommended A collection of thought-provoking sci-fi short stories from the author of The Three-Body Problem, offering vivid settings through an eastern perspective.

Author: Robin Marty Published: 2021 ✨ Recommended A practical guide on reproductive rights and resources for navigating a post-Roe landscape.

A week in central Hokkaido with Mint Tours, riding small resorts and sidecountry trees, with an awesome storm day.

Taking in two nights of adventure, inspiration, and stunning cinematography at the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.