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Grok 4.6 (Elon Musk's AI lab — the video refers to it as "SpaceX") is out as a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price; it led on "economically valuable work, long professional tasks and legal work" rather than coding benchmarks, and Cursor now defaults to "Grok 4.6 fast" on update, which Riley Brown recommends as the best way to use it Riley Brown. Combined input+output pricing per 1M tokens: $8 Grok 4.6 vs $30 Opus 5, $35 "5.6 SoL", $60 Claude Fable 5 — making Grok 4.6 3.75x–7.5x cheaper, and Riley says it is "straight up better" than Opus 5 Riley Brown. Real-work data point (DHH's tweet, reported secondhand): DHH had one-shot a Rust rewrite of the Terminal Text Effects Python library in 11M tokens via Fable; Grok 4.6 repeated the feat with "a couple of nudges" in ~1.5 hours for $55 — about one-tenth the cost Riley Brown.

Grokbot (desktop + iOS) was built by the Cursor team over ~4–5 months as Cursor's general knowledge-work platform (internal codename "Sand"), focused on non-coding work, positioned vs Claude Cowork/GPT Work Riley Brown. Firsthand walkthrough: every session is a named agent with its own mini system prompt (title/description); plugins and skills are shared across agents, but routines (scheduled automations) live inside each agent — Riley runs a weekly-update bot, a content bot that scrapes favorite creators daily at 9:16am, and a to-do bot that prints his most important task every day; Cmd+K shows all agent+routine pairs globally Riley Brown. Each agent gets its own cloud computer with a sign-in-able browser, full file visibility, and a "teach a task" record/replay loop similar to Codex's Riley Brown. Riley's take: Grokbot trails Codex/GPT Work in capability, but scoping automations to named bots is its biggest innovation and other labs will copy it Riley Brown.

Anthropic/OpenAI updates: Claude Cowork now runs from Chrome — sessions sync across desktop/web/mobile, chats carry into the Claude app, and skills/connectors work in-browser Riley Brown. Sonnet 5's intro price is staying; OpenAI holds Terra/Luna prices similarly; Riley credits Chinese models (DeepSeek, Kimi, Z.AI) and Grok for mid-tier price pressure Riley Brown.

New OSS: GitHub repo "phone harness" lets any agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) fully control a phone — flagged as untested by Riley Riley Brown.

DeepSeek V4 Pro cautionary launch: claimed near-Fable quality at a fraction of the price; independent testers found it only a bit better than V4 Flash, it is effectively pulled and immediately fails in Cursor via OpenRouter, and DeepSeek drew flak for switching to usage-based pricing Riley Brown.

Gemini 3.7 Flash: fast mid-tier model benchmarked against Claude Sonnet and GPT Terra; test it in Cursor via OpenRouter (2-minute setup) or Antigravity Riley Brown.

OpenAI workspace agents: custom agents as powerful as GPT Work, with their own system prompts and Slack messaging — currently GPT teams/web only; OpenAI's Andrew confirmed desktop and non-teams access is coming. Codex app is now downloadable on Linux Riley Brown.

UX critique ("chat vs work problem"): "Signal" argues ChatGPT's chat/work split is confusing — work mode turns simple questions into "an expedition," neither mode is a good default, and local-vs-cloud chat plus mobile/desktop sync is a mess Riley Brown.

Platform trend: general agent platforms (Hermes, Claude Cowork, GPT Work, Open Claw) are converging into super apps; the new shapes are Grokbot's named-agent teams and Buzz's Slack-like human+agent channels, while Anthropic pushes Claude Tag for company Slack — the arc is from a personal agent to a team of agents Riley Brown.

• Grok 4.6 launched this week, described as a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price; it led on economically valuable work, long professional tasks, and legal work but not coding benchmarks, and Cursor defaults to "Grok 4.6 fast" after updating Riley Brown.
• Combined input+output pricing per 1M tokens: Grok 4.6 $8, Opus 5 $30, Sol 5.6 $35, Claude Fable $60 — making Fable 5 7.5x pricier and Sol 5.6 4.4x pricier; Riley says Grok 4.6 is better than Opus 5 while 3.75x cheaper Riley Brown.
• DHH tweeted that Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the Terminal Text Effects Python library in 11M tokens last week; Grok 4.6 repeated the feat with "a couple of nudges" in ~1.5 hours for $55, about 1/10 the cost of the Fable implementation Riley Brown.
• Grokbot is a new desktop/iOS agent platform built with the Cursor team (internal name "sand"); every session is a named agent with its own title and description-as-mini-system-prompt, shared plugins/skills, and routines that live inside the agent rather than globally; each agent gets its own cloud computer with a browser you can sign into and a "teach a task" record-replay flow; Command-K gives a zoomed-out view of all routines per agent Riley Brown.
• Riley's concrete workflow: he created a "Weekly Update" bot by describing its purpose, then asked it to set up a routine delivering his AI news briefing every weekday at 10am; routines are scoped to the bot Riley Brown.
• Agent platforms are converging on the same super-app shape (Hermes Agent, Claude Cowork, GPT Work, OpenClaw desktop all have sessions/skills/plugins/automations), while Buzz (Slack-like channels for humans+agents) and Grokbot (named-agent sessions) are new shapes; Anthropic's Claude Tag pushes agents into company Slack — Riley frames the shift as from "personal agent" to "personal team of agents" Riley Brown.
• Riley's take: Grokbot's biggest innovation is personifying chat sessions — a bot is a named chat session with a mini system prompt and automations scoped to it instead of a global scheduled section — and he expects other labs to copy it Riley Brown.
• Claude Chrome sessions now carry over to desktop, web, and mobile; conversations are saved, skills/connectors work in the browser, and chats sync into the Claude app so a browser conversation can be continued on desktop — effectively Claude Cowork from a Chrome extension Riley Brown.
• Anthropic is keeping Sonnet 5 at its introductory (lower) price; OpenAI is doing the same with Terra and Luna; Riley attributes the cheaper non-frontier models to pressure from DeepSeek, Kimi/Z.ai, and Grok, and expects the trend to continue Riley Brown.
• New GitHub repo "phone harness" lets any agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) fully control your phone; Riley shared it without testing Riley Brown.
• DeepSeek V4 Pro launched claiming near-Fable quality at a fraction of the price, but testers found it only slightly better than DeepSeek V4 Flash; the model has effectively been taken down — it fails immediately in Cursor via OpenRouter, isn't an official Cursor model — and DeepSeek faced backlash for moving to usage-based pricing Riley Brown.
• Gemini 3.7 Flash officially released this week as a fast mid-tier model, benchmarked against Claude Sonnet and GPT Terra (not frontier models); it can be tried in Cursor via OpenRouter, but Riley calls it "not that good, just pretty fast" Riley Brown.
• Signal's critique (quoted by Riley): ChatGPT's chat/work split is confusing — work mode turns simple questions into planning/tool-using expeditions, chat is too limited for real tasks, there's no good default, and mobile/desktop plus local/cloud chat sync is a mess; "ChatGPT went from the most usable simple consumer experience to confusing AF" Riley Brown.
• OpenAI workspace agents — currently web-only on GPT team plans, GPT Work-powered with their own system prompts and Slack messaging — are coming to the ChatGPT desktop app and beyond team plans, per OpenAI's Andrew in response to Riley's tweet; the Codex app is now downloadable on Linux Riley Brown.

Fred Schott — creator of Astro, whose company was acquired by Cloudflare in January — shipped Flue 2, the agent framework's first stable release, built on React-style "Agent Hooks" Latent.Space. In Flue an agent is a JavaScript function that re-renders before every model call Latent.Space; hooks are authored in TypeScript and let agents manage state, listen to lifecycle events, and attach resources and capabilities at runtime — 16 built-in hooks including useSkill(), useTool(), and useSubagent(), plus custom hooks Latent.Space. The goal is dynamic reconfiguration as a conversation progresses, which Schott says is required for "real support bots, real triage bots" that can't be fully configured in advance — e.g., a support agent pulls in an account-management tool after verifying the user Latent.Space.

Contrarian design take: file-based routing is an "antipattern" for agents. Early Flue users, "especially the bigger customers," run their whole company as one agent and "don't care about routing," so Schott pivoted Flue's API "more from React [...] than from Astro or Next.js" — composability over web-framework routing Latent.Space.

Core thesis: "There is no agent without a harness." Rather than scripts driving the LLM, the agent is placed in a harness with the context and capabilities it needs and "is able to drive itself and work through problems" Latent.Space. Flue is an opinionated layer on Pi, an open-source minimal harness — Schott likens Pi's role to Vite's beneath Astro — and Flue 2 hosted agents are built with Vite Latent.Space.

Workflow: Flue began as an issue-triage system in the Astro repo and evolved toward being "like Claude Code, but 100% headless and programmable" Latent.Space. Onboarding is agent-first: "pass this prompt to your agent, it's gonna guide you through it," with docs in markdown; Latent Space's Richard MacManus built his first Flue agent using Claude Code Latent.Space.

Landscape: Schott calls Vercel's eve the most direct competitor — both launched with the harness built in — while "OG agent frameworks" (Vercel AI SDK, Cloudflare Agents SDK, Mastra) are now retrofitting harnesses as a feature Latent.Space. He is skeptical of meta-harnesses such as Databricks' Omnigent or Exo: one API across all harnesses "would muddle the story for Flue," since "the framework [Flue] and the harness are very intertwined" Latent.Space.

Positioning: Flue stays open source and host-portable — "The best tools are the ones that float above the host" — whereas eve is optimized for Vercel's platform (the Next.js playbook); Vercel still published a guide for running Flue on its platform Latent.Space. A managed-agents product is not on Flue's roadmap: "It's so early for us, we're just focused on building the best harness" Latent.Space.

Broader context: Bret Taylor (Sierra CEO, OpenAI chairman) has said "We're sort of in the jQuery era of agents, not the react era" — the field is still maturing Latent.Space.

• exo, a recursively self-improving agent from UC Berkeley systems PhD Alex Kransell Latent Space, decomposes agents into a fully stateless executor (all policy: context assembly, prompts, compaction, skills, tools), a stateful exo harness (conversation history, secrets, artifacts/snapshots), and an isolated sandbox, so the executor can be safely evolved without losing history or leaking secrets Latent Space.
• Key RSI mechanism: exo mounts its own executor code inside the sandbox, letting the LLM edit and rebuild its own executor at runtime; a guardian process runs the rebuilt executor one step and auto-rolls back to the previous snapshot if it breaks Latent Space.
• Cost-control pattern: the exo harness logs annotate each message with its cost; when asked to cut costs, exo re-architected its own Discord adapter at runtime to scope context to the relevant thread/conversation and cut per-call cost about 96% (one message had cost $0.16), then committed the change. Kransell warns to add evals to prevent reward hacking, e.g. the agent deciding to stop working to save money Latent Space.
• OpenClaw contrast: its main dynamic self-modification is a memory markdown file plus human-installed skills/tools; policy like context assembly, history window, and compaction is static in source, whereas exo's argument is all of it should be agent-improvable Latent Space.
• Security/scale takeaways: keep a secret store in the harness host process, never in the tool-visible sandbox, and inject secrets only into the LLM call Latent Space; teleporting agent state lets you scale from a single machine to many per-user sandboxes and move overflows to cloud providers like Daytona/E2B Latent Space.
• OpenClaw threads are not interruptible mid-task (pings go unanswered); Kransell expects agent execution to adopt systems patterns like background processes/TMUX panes, signals, and pub/sub buses Latent Space. exo runs in production at Braintrust; repo: GitHub ExoHarness/EXO, with Discord/IRC/WhatsApp adapters and pipeline-based voice mode on Discord Latent Space.

• Firsthand report from @simonw: Qwen 3.8 27B in LM Studio with default reasoning set to "extra high" is a "chronic over-thinker" — for the prompt "draw an svg of a circle" it produced a long reasoning trace planning a self-contained, animated "cosmic/orbital" SVG with orbiting and rotating dashed rings, pulsating glow, tick marks, satellite dots, gradient background, and CSS animations @simonw.
• The same run failed because the context length was left at the default: the server rejected the request before completion with {"code":500,"message":"Context size has been exceeded."}@simonw.
• Fix: after bumping up the context limit, the model produced a "beautiful (animated) circle"; result linked at https://gist.github.com/simonw/39977a4e0aa8fe3cae521b7b86f2262f@simonw. Practical takeaway: verbose reasoning traces from high reasoning settings can exhaust default context windows, so raise the context limit when using "extra high" reasoning locally.

@jankeesvw (firsthand) built a custom Omarchy menu bar item for Google Calendar — with week and day views — and reports it took five minutes @jankeesvw. DHH quoted the post, writing "If you can think of it, Omarchy can make it happen. The infinitely malleable computer is finally here!" @dhh.

Kent C. Dodds announced he built a tool that "securely connects your agents directly" — an agent-to-agent integration approach inspired by the friction of manually pasting responses between your agent and a co-worker's agent during collaboration; early access is available by replying to the post @kentcdodds.

DHH — Ruby on Rails creator and 37signals co-owner/CTO — released Omarchy Quattro, calling it "one of the greatest software releases in my professional career" @dhh. The announcement links to omarchy.org and a launch video @dhh. The launch video hit one million views within a day, which DHH attributes to X's distribution @dhh.

DHH, creator of Omarchy, reports Omarchy Quattro's community plugin count grew exponentially: 25 → 50 → 100 → 200 plugins over the past four days @dhh. He links to the plugin directory at https://omarchyplugins.com/@dhh. This is a firsthand signal that the Omarchy Quattro ecosystem is rapidly gaining traction.

@pvncher shipped a new capability in "multi agents v2": models can now delegate to any supported model — including a model called Luna — and they note it took care to make it work reliably @pvncher. Greg Brockman (@gdb) spotlights the release as "towards never having to manually select a model again" @gdb, pointing at automatic model routing/delegation as the direction for agent stacks. Firsthand release note from the builder; Brockman's take is secondhand endorsement. Original post: https://x.com/pvncher/status/2088641056237580632@gdb

Jason Zhou (@jasonzhou1993) asks whether a lightweight CRM built for agents exists, specifically one that can log email sending integrated with Resend/AgentMail @jasonzhou1993.

DHH's coding-agent challenge: agents rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust. Fable (via Claude artifact) completed it in one shot in 45 min for ~$550, spending 11M tokens; it cut startup from 87ms to 2ms, improved rendering speed 9.6x, and produced a zero-dependency 3MB single executable @dhh. DeepSeek Pro V4 Max also completed the challenge in 2h30m for just $23 in tokens, vs ~$550 for Fable, $55 for Grok 4.6 (1.5h), $43 for GPT Sol; DSV4 Flash and GPT Luna failed @dhh. All implementations ran off the plan Fable originally wrote, available at https://github.com/omacom-io/ttfx/blob/master/plan.md — a reusable plan-driven agent pattern @dhh.

Cost comparisons across coding models should account for tokenizer efficiency, not just price per token: different models tokenize the same text differently, so a lower price per token can still mean a higher bill @thsottiaux. In one comparison, GPT-5.6 Sol's tokenizer used 766 tokens vs. an estimated 1,170 for Claude Opus 5 on the same English/technical/multilingual/numerical text — ~34.5% fewer tokens @thsottiaux. The author argues the real metric is price per successful outcome, measured on your own use cases, with benchmarks only as a starting point @thsottiaux.

Per @antigravity, Antigravity now uses Gemini 3.7 Flash's reasoning to build complete native auth screens across SwiftUI, React Native, Jetpack Compose, and Flutter; the update is live via download/upgrade (https://antigravity.google/download) @antigravity +1.

@pvncher (firsthand release note) reports that "models with multi agents v2" now have the ability to delegate to any supported model, including Luna — a feature that shipped quietly this week and took time to make reliable @pvncher. @thsottiaux frames this as letting Sol "manage an efficient fleet of Luna agents," with the models collaborating "incredibly fast and efficient" @thsottiaux.