Daily Brief — 2026-10-16
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@martinfowler
Sensible Defaults for IoT: thinkuldeep found that modernizing a large fleet of IoT sensors kept his engineering principles largely the same but required a new set of Sensible Defaults for that environment. post (https://x.com/martinfowler/status/2110730730883961006) · 41❤ · 4 RT
@cursor_ai
Muse Wonder in Cursor: Meta Superintelligence Labs' Muse Wonder is now available in Cursor; scores 46.1% on CursorBench at default effort, the highest of any Muse model; priced at $4/M input and $20/M output tokens. post (https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2110867556693430293) · 1,611❤ · 78 RT
@poteto
Try pstack: her personal set of skills for rigorous, autonomous engineering with agents, updated often; run /setup-pstack to choose a budget, then prefix prompts with /poteto-mode; follow-ups share prompts for agent-friendly refactoring and auditing code comments. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2110757066709356851) · 4,079❤ · 199 RT
Submit plugins: says Grok Bot, Grok, and Cursor plugins can now be submitted, with a submission link. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2110840796954202186) · 675❤ · 47 RT
Flying car reaction: jokes she can stop being scared of parallel parking (quoting elonmusk's "the future does have flying cars"). post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2110934095564054960) · 3,270❤ · 72 RT
@hwchase17
Harness meets infra: says the interesting agent harness work sits where harness meets infra: dreaming, async subagents, heartbeats, and agents scheduling reminders; all are in managed deep agents, which is why he is bullish on managed agent platforms. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2110813795245249018) · 364❤ · 26 RT
Agent progression: frames the path as coding agents (Claude Code, Codex), then personal agents (instinct, muse), then an open question he calls companyOS. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2110696529808048500) · 139❤ · 10 RT
@rauchg
Vercel for Backends: quotes Vercel's backend launch: Python generally available, containers for other runtimes and system libraries, and Daemons for async jobs and background workers. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2110786422907257021) · 481❤ · 9 RT
Vercel Drives GA: says his agent architecture of brain, hands, and files now has its files piece, quoting Vercel Drives going generally available for running stateful agents. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2110789038194229351) · 526❤ · 21 RT
Vercel Daemons beta: explains the 1963 MIT origin of the word daemon, quoting the public beta of Vercel Daemons, background workers that pull jobs from queues, databases, or third-party systems. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2110788647998153156) · 210❤ · 6 RT
@simonw
Distillation revenue: quotes a report that Anthropic told investors distillation was 5 to 7 percent of revenue; if Q2 revenue was $11.5B, that means other labs spent more than half a billion dollars distilling Anthropic's models. post (https://x.com/simonw/status/2110721515130089787) · 673❤ · 50 RT
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morluto/rea (https://github.com/morluto/rea): reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (TypeScript, +32,314★ today)
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anthropics/claude-plugins-official (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official): official Anthropic-managed directory of high-quality Claude Code plugins (Python, +307★ today)
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K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills): turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist; 177 validated skills plus 100+ scientific databases for biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery (Python, +1,091★ today)
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JuliusBrussee/caveman (https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman): skill and proxy for coding agents that cuts about 65% of tokens by answering in caveman-style terse text (Go, +433★ today)
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debpalash/VoiceStudio (https://github.com/debpalash/VoiceStudio): open-source fully-local ElevenLabs alternative for voice cloning, voice design, dubbing, dictation, transcription, and audiobooks in 646 languages (Python, +3,024★ today)