Well, somehow made it to issue number twenty of my little newsletter. It’s still little, under 1,000 people, but that’s okay, I’m not a marketer, I’m an engineer, so as long as some people are reading and enjoying this, I’ll keep writing.
And on that note, as you’ve probably learned by now, I write this all by hand, like a caveman, no AI, just me banging away on my keyboard. Last week I simplified the format, and people seemed to like it so I’ll stick with this simplification.
Rather than writing a lot, I want to really focus on sharing a lot, because the reality is, with AI, you can easily take the stuff I share and generate quick summaries, or deep dives, you don’t need me to do either.
That being said, I thought it would be fun to build a little CLI, you can use with my newsletter, or more like, your OpenClaw, or Hermes, or Perplexity Computer Agent can use. I’m seeing more and more people, myself included, use agents to create digests of things like newsletters and podcasts, and I want to make it as easy as possible for agents to access and get content from my newsletter.
I built the CLI all in Rust, because I love Rust and am finding just about any excuse to build anything and everything I can this year in Rust. The CLI is now live, you can check it out here and let your agent play around with it: https://github.com/Zen-Open-Source/NewsletterCLI
Two of the big things that happened since my last newsletter is the release of Opus 4.7, which has some pretty mixed reviews, and Vercel getting hacked, which I think they handled so incredibly well, seriously, a masterclass in how to handle tough stuff like this the right way.
I was thinking of including the new models from Kimi and Qwen in here, but realize I probably want to do a dedicated issue just on local LLM stuff because it’s getting so damn interesting, so lookout for that at some point.
Okay, now onto issue #19, enjoy!
Okay, once again, I’m not going to write a bunch of stuff, I’m just going to share cool stuff that I’ve found, curated down to what I think is just too cool not to share.
If you want a newsletter where someone does a deep dive on all of this, this ain’t it, and you honestly don’t need that. Here’s how I would suggest doing a deeper dive into any of these. Since most are links from X, use Grok, and have it teach you. Just write a prompt like, “explain this tweet to me like I’m five” and then paste the tweet.
Or if you want to really nerd out, have it build you a course, you can use a prompt like this to make that happen, “put together a one week course, with daily lessons for me, each taking no more than 15 minutes to complete, based on this tweet,” then paste the tweet.
And with that, here’s the good stuff:
Vercel got hacked, here’s the latest
https://x.com/rauchg/status/2047150411170320808?s=20
Your harness your memory
https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2042978500567609738?s=46
The team you build is the company you build
https://x.com/lennysan/status/2043777033017405547?s=46
New role - agent manager
https://x.com/levie/status/2043883641366032638?s=46
Building an agent harness
https://x.com/theo/status/2043611205856837680?s=46
End vibe coded slop
https://x.com/shawmakesmagic/status/2044269097647779990?s=46
AI Agent Stack
https://x.com/av1dlive/status/2044453102703841645?s=46
User memory in LangChain
https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/deploy#user-memory
Service as software
https://x.com/itsalexvacca/status/2044502868556992937?s=46
Tiller - get your bank transactions in OpenClaw
https://x.com/chrysb/status/2044565575255658737?s=46
Building agents that never forget
https://x.com/akshay_pachaar/status/2043745099792953508?s=46
—
The Opus 4.7 Section
Opus 4.7 might not suck as much as people say, but you can’t prompt it like 4.6
https://x.com/PawelHuryn/status/2046245203032359328?s=20
Using Opus 4.7 effectively
https://claude.com/blog/best-practices-for-using-claude-opus-4-7-with-claude-code
Treat Opus as an engineer you delegate to
https://x.com/_catwu/status/2044808533905178822?s=46
Kloss on 4.7 workflow
https://x.com/kloss_xyz/status/2044978898371563940?s=46
—
Building internal agents
https://x.com/kylejeong/status/2044878529666662616?s=46
Vercel workflows
https://x.com/vercel/status/2044850971185213495?s=46
Goose is all you need, according to Jack Dorsey
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-building-agents-start-harnessing-goose-adam-miller-b9xgc/
Slack agent kit
https://x.com/slackhq/status/2044863681113301031?s=46
Codex workflows
https://x.com/dimillian/status/2045077274660135210?s=46
Coding agents genome
https://x.com/patrickc/status/2045164908912968060?s=46
Hermes vs OpenClaw
https://x.com/elvissun/status/2045155784577687862?s=46
And that’s a wrap. As a reminder, I write this on no set schedule, and have no sponsors to appease, and charge no subscription fee. This is a newsletter for the sake of just sharing stuff I’m interested in, and now, your agent has a CLI to play with so if you want to include your agentic workflows, it’s now easier than ever to do it.
Thanks for reading!
