Daily Brief — 2026-10-01
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@martinfowler
Slides as visual channel: links Sumeet Gayathri Moghe's principles for slides that complement the speaker instead of replacing them. post (https://x.com/martinfowler/status/2105301442638540929) · 54❤ · 8 RT
@cursor_ai
Innate robots: profile of the 7-person Innate team building capable robots for everyday life; co-founder says they do the work of 50. post (https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2105406306966511773) · 1,091❤ · 91 RT
@poteto
Fun at work: says burnout ended after joining Cursor and SpaceXAI; argues having fun at work (and tokens) will fix you. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2105336247548006760) · 2,610❤ · 63 RT
Bot prompt joke: posts "hey @bot make me a billion dollars and don't fucking make any mistakes". post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2105520338998304814) · 2,343❤ · 61 RT
Grok Bot + cloud agents: walkthrough of a team engineer bot in Slack that takes coding work and can create Projects. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2105377066942349794) · 1,083❤ · 63 RT
@swyx
Media attribution: questions professional tech media cropping logos and not attributing a YouTube video (quoting TypeSafe/Jev coverage). post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2105538561672085751) · 280❤ · 0 RT
Flow Series B: quotes Flow's $50M raise and says Flow does for hardware engineering what Git+GitHub did for software. post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2105348724331606411) · 71❤ · 2 RT
@rauchg
Vercel Connect: asks services to join Connect to reach 20M+ developers and agents; says connecting is the final boss once code is free. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2105390544096841942) · 483❤ · 21 RT
AI Gateway token data: argues most token aggregators are noisy; Vercel AI Gateway is a trustworthy view of real AI token flows. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2105476587756138942) · 153❤ · 7 RT
fx faster: quotes fx v0.0.12 release notes on faster sessions and more reliable long-running work. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2105285688820400259) · 146❤ · 4 RT
@HamelHusain
Auto Eval review: longer post reviewing Claude's new Auto Eval plugin; asks others how it went. post (https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/2105471347736682953) · 189❤ · 20 RT
Trace sampling: Q&A on sampling production traces — start broad, use failure signals, keep some random traces each batch. post (https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/2105311756260090191) · 48❤ · 3 RT
SEO warfare: posts "Intense SEO warfare" with a screenshot. post (https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/2105330536927645746) · 54❤ · 1 RT
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