AI has permanently changed the build-vs-buy spectrum for software. Convenient infrastructure and low-cost vibe coding services are punching above their weight while many incumbent vendors fail to leverage these changing economics for the benefit of consumers. www.lifewithdata.org/blog/softwar...

Software is Going DIY

Vibe coding has drastically lowered the bar for build vs buy

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I tried out Cowork, Anthropic's new Claude-based product. It's essentially Claude Code for people who don't live in the terminal. So I kicked the tires with a task ripe for automation: clean up my downloads folder on my computer 😂 www.lifewithdata.org/blog/cowork-...

First Look at Anthropic Cowork: Personal Assistant Outside the Terminal

Trying out Anthropic's Cowork to organize files, visualize disk usage, and sync with Notion

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I finally took some time to catch up on the fast-changing ecosystem of tools for user interfaces for AI agents. In this round I set up an AG-UI (from CopilotKit) interface to a locally-hosted LangGraph agent. 📘 My thoughts https://bit.ly/3Ng0h31 💻 The code https://bit.ly/4jbr64z

Building an Agent Chat UI with AG-UI, FastAPI, and LangGraph

Serve your local LangGraph agent over FastAPI with the streamlined UI/UX of AG-UI

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Cursor drops a lot of great updates, @anthropic.com pushes Skills out as a standard and now I'm back waiting for Cursor 😅 crazy times...