Simon Willison tracks the hottest AI project trajectory—from weekend hack to OpenClaw, the story everyone's watching! HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto shares his honest AI journey: the three inevitable phases from struggle to mastery that every developer experiences.
Also in this issue: AI is finally learning to shut up—essential UX philosophy for knowing when AI should act silently vs. when it needs to explain! Matteo Collina drops essential reading for anyone entering tech with honest guidance for the AI-transformed engineering landscape. Jampa Uchoa shares ten years of hard-won leadership lessons—the non-obvious advice that books won't teach you. Gergely Orosz gives us a rare inside look at how real companies evaluate and adopt next-gen developer tools. Addy Osmani defines the evolution from "vibe coding" to agentic engineering—how we build software with AI now!
On the tools front: AgentMail delivers email infrastructure for AI agents as they become autonomous actors in digital workflows! Cloudflare brings OpenClaw to edge computing—major infrastructure backing for the hottest AI agent platform. fluid.sh graduates AI agents from app development to infrastructure management—the next frontier of automation! Maestro provides orchestration command center for multi-agent systems, critical infrastructure as agent collaboration becomes the norm. And Ahmad Shadeed challenges conventional responsive design wisdom—why mobile-first breakpoints can harm user experience!
Enjoy!
Signup here for the newsletter to get the weekly digest right into your inbox.
Find the 12 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #123:
by Mitchell Hashimoto
My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.
🚀 Read it!, ai, adoption
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
by Simon Willison
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw.
📰 Good to know, ai, openclaw
AI is finally learning to shut up
by Imran
One-click actions, ambient context, and a framework for deciding when AI should talk and when it shouldn't.
📰 Good to know, ai
The Future of the Software Engineering Career
by Matteo Collina
If you're a student, a career changer, or someone advising young people on their path into tech, this post is for you.
📰 Good to know, engineering, career
Things I’ve learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
by Jampa Uchoa
Non-obvious advice that I wish I learned sooner.
📰 Good to know, engineering, leadership
How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools
by Gergely Orosz
Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review tools.
📰 Good to know, ai, tools
by Addy Osmani
A year ago, Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” to describe a gleefully reckless way of programming.
📰 Good to know, ai, engineering
by agentmail.to
AgentMail is the email inbox API for AI agents. It gives agents their own email inboxes, like Gmail does for humans.
🧰 Tools, ai, emails
by Cloudflare
OpenClaw on Cloudflare Workers
🧰 Tools, ai, openclaw
by Collin Pfeifer
Claude Code for Infrastructure
🧰 Tools, ai
by Pedram Amini
Agent Orchestration Command Center
🧰 Tools, ai
by Ahmad Shadeed
An opinion on why we shouldn't switch to the smallest design too early.
🎨 Design, responsive, layout
Want to read more? Check out the full article here.
To sign up for the weekly newsletter, visit weeklyfoo.com.
Top comments (0)