Newsletter #6

Browser use is very good now.

It’s been a while. This is a long “catch up” edition, with stale posts omitted.

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Content warning: I’m mostly learning in public, not writing for an audience. If you find something hard to follow, ask your favourite LLM. ❤️

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One thing everyone should know

• Browser use is very good now ⭐

Team adoption

• To raise the floor, push 1-2 key messages per month

• Electricity brought only modest gains for many incumbents

• The 5/2 Cadence: 5 weeks building, 2 weeks investing in AI uplift ⭐

• “Use of AI” should be on weekly 1-1 agendas and performance reviews

Ambitious delegation

• Flight search with Claude Code really works now

• Claude Code does my bookkeeping

• Onboarding a new client for TYPE III AUDIO

Skills

• Skills library for a research team ⭐

• My call summarization prompts

• Turn a messy repo into clean commits ⭐

• Make image

• Make spaced repetition cards (and do chat review)

• Digest of LessWrong comments by Daniel Kokotajlo

Security

• It is totally fine to connect Google Workspace to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini (and to enable browser use) ⭐

General advice

• Karpathy: remove yourself as the bottleneck

• It is often worth asking: is there a faster approach?

• While you wait, think for yourself

• Tell your AI to flag ambiguous data, not silently guess what it means

Personal apps

• The podcatcher app I’ve always wanted

• Keyboard shortcut to summarise blog posts, PDFs, YouTube videos and Google Docs ⭐

• My break reminder app

• Screen blackout shortcuts to support focus

Terminal workflow

• CLI utility to prompt both Claude Code and Codex ⭐

• Project switcher for Claude Code & Codex ⭐

• Question mode (answer, but don’t do anything!) ⭐

• Remove unwanted new lines when copy-pasting from a narrow Terminal pane

• How to share skills between Claude Code, Codex and Gemini

• Use “Try” for quick experiments

Claude Code & Codex

• How to edit pasted text blocks in Claude Code and Codex

• How to write Figma-style comments on HTML mockups

• How to write Google Docs-style comments on agent plans

• Codex with GPT-5.5 is still better than Claude Code with Opus 4.8, especially at the planning stage

• Enable Claude to test its work in Chrome ⭐

• Does your skill call a bunch of scripts? Consider writing a CLI.

• How to plan agent coding projects

• Keep your Claude Code conversation history ⭐

• Hermes is a big upgrade on OpenClaw

• How to read markdown files on your phone

• Use gdoc to edit Google Docs ⭐

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Thoughts? Corrections? Want help? Email me, or tweet.

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