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Hey folks, Iām a professional procrastinator ā I need to ship this course and re-write my fundraising deck for fund II, buuuut yesterday I finally built something Iāve wanted for a while. I loved Superhuman, I used it for many years ($40/mo!) but all I really loved was split inboxes based on labels, and how quick and nice it is to use. I donāt need (ā¦yet? ever?) AI to read all my emails, draft replies, chase me to do things and be a PA for me, Iāve had PAās and I always let them go. I just want email rules - if this address is labelled āpitchā (for PR pitches), archive it. If no label - itās āimportantā and needs a reply for me, if āinvestingā itās from an LP or portfolio founder, if ānewsletterā archive it (donāt do this or you wont see these! š). Gmail has filters and labels but itās limited and just canāt give me the UI I want to work in. So naturally, I built my own. Iāll send a āBenās Buildsā email on Saturday with more details on what I actually did. It took me ~2 hours for the first version. I was āpushedā to this by seeing Dan Shipperās Codex-native email workflow - but again, I donāt need most of the stuff heās doing. Email is very different for everyone. But now I can completely customise my experienceā¦If I want daily briefs to summarise all my newsletters - my agent can do it, if I want automated actions - my agent can, and so on. So if you send me an email, it is me who will reply - but my agent may have you labelled and organised to make it easier for me to respond. Personal software can be built by anyone! Benās Bites is brought to you by Attio GTM Atlas is the map for modern go-to-market. Written by top operators, Atlas is a free resource covering the full customer journey, with systems thinking that scales with you. Curated by Attio. Mapped by operators. Fun fact: Attioās founder, Nicolas was interviewed by me in Sept 2020 for my previous companyās podcast. Attio is very good software!! I shouldāve invested at the time š©. But for now⦠Iām going to build something with it š Free users in ChatGPT are now on āGPT-5.5 Instantā - a new model that replaces GPT-5.3 Instant. Itās significantly better at vision, understanding PDFs, web search and using your memories and past chats smartly. Its responses are also shorter in general with less emojis. It also hallucinates 52.5% less than the previous model on high-stakes prompts. Though recently Iāve been recommending Codex to friends with free plans of ChatGPT a lot. Yep, Codex is available on free plans. It takes them some time to understand the concept of how reading-writing a file on computer unlocks much more capability but in each case, they have come back after a day or two saying āweāre addicted to using codexā. ā Keshav Also, ChatGPT now works inside Excel and Google Sheets to build sheets, analyse tabs, write formulas and make approved edits in place. You can now use twice as much of Claude on all paid plans. How? Anthropic signed a deal to use all of SpaceXās Colossus 1 data centre. (I guess no one needs/uses Grok) Code with Claude was a bit meh! The only new launch they did was introducing some features in Claude Managed Agents - Dreaming - Review past chats and save memories from them. Outcomes - Describe what success looks like, and a grader will judge the agentās work. Multi-agent orchestration - Let a lead agent break the job into pieces and delegate to specialist subagents. Posthog is building a code editor. Not literally, but they are making a Codex-like app that uses the data (like product usage patterns, bugs observed, errors in logs etc.) as the primary signal to code/build stuff. Hereās how they are thinking about the self-driving product loop. Gravitee makes APIs agent-ready, helping teams govern APIs, events, and AI Agents while reducing silos and cost.* Skills by Entire to teach agents to explain code, search prior session context, investigate why a change happened and hand work off between agents. pookie - Slack helper to search messages across your workspace. It also generates memes, and connect to tools like Linear, GitHub and Stripe. The lines between vibe coding and agentic engineering are starting to blur. Clicky can now click, save ideas/links/inspo and run Gmail, Calendar and Drive by voice. deepsec - security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase. Raindrop Triage - an agent to debug your agents already in production. Also works via MCP. Prime Intellect Lab lets you fine-tune your own models ranging from 1B to 400B params. How we improved agentic search. Everyone should have an OPINIONS.md Gemini APIās File Search can now search over images & audio i.e. finding 2-3 relevant images from big folder based on whatās in the image (not its name). @supabase/server - public beta package for server-side auth verification, client setup and request context across Edge Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Hono and Bun. Anthropic released 10 finance agent templates for pitchbooks, KYC screening, valuation reviews, month-end close and more. They run as Claude Cowork/Claude Code plugins or Managed Agents cookbooks. The āAI Job Apocalypseā is a complete fantasy. The artistry of text-to-speech models. Dharmesh says HubSpotās goal is full API parity with the UI: agents can run on HubSpot, and agents can run HubSpot. More headless SaaS / AUX energy. Read about me and Benās Bites š· thumbnail by @keshavatearth * sponsors who make this newsletter possible :) Wanna partner with us for the next quarter? Email us at shanice@bensbites.com or k@bensbites.com
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