Recommendation · MoneyRoman attributes Cursor's success to how quickly the team adjusts to the reality of the market, and recommends building the best-in-class experience for a thing that is going to happen, even if that thing exists elsewhere today.
Lenny's Podcast · How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Recommendation · MoneyRoman Ugarte recommends that when having a product debate, you ask 'How would a human do this? What would you want from your teammates in this situation?' He says the answer is often clarifying and pretty unanimous, and then you just need to build it. He adds that this doesn't require being a genius; you just need to ask the question and push AI to behave similarly.
Lenny's Podcast · How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Recommendation · MoneyRoman recommends maintaining the 'startup feeling' inside the company as it scales: everyone moves fast, deeply trusts each other to execute their part, and is fired up about a clear vision they know they need to execute on. He considers this critical for continued success.
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Lenny's Podcast · How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
RecommendationElie Bakouch recommends building a multi-agent discovery system with generators, a judge, and a speedrun reward loop instead of pure evaluation. He suggests including both closed and open source models in the generator pool because open source models are super effective for the cost, and giving the judge a sense of taste about whether a method is good, outside the loop. Humans are also super useful to judge agent ideas and steer them in the right direction.
AI Engineer · We Let Claude Code and Codex Race Human Researchers — Elie Bakouch, Prime Intellect
RecommendationElie Bakouch recommends building open evaluation environments for AI research capabilities so the community can independently verify lab claims, and argues that part of recursive self-improvement research should happen in the open since many people working in AI are not at big labs. He also stresses making it easy for people outside big labs to understand how these models work and do research.
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AI Engineer · We Let Claude Code and Codex Race Human Researchers — Elie Bakouch, Prime Intellect
Recommendation · BodyThe creator advises that there's always room for face pulls regardless of whether you weight train two, three, or five days a week. On a two-day split, do one corrective and one hypertrophy session, with the corrective at the end of the week. On a three-day split, put the corrective at the end of the week and the hypertrophy session in the middle. On a five-day split: hypertrophy first, corrective after, hypertrophy after the day off, then one more corrective — keeping the balance in favor of corrective sessions. On an odd number of sessions, do more corrective sessions to get the neuromuscular re-education.
ATHLEAN-X™ · Do This AFTER Every Workout (NON NEGOTIABLE!)
Recommendation · BodyThe creator recommends getting a long rope of around two feet as a good investment that allows doing the face pull properly; if unavailable, set the machine up with two traditional ropes and pull them all the way to their end. A long rope allows getting the elbows in the right position without forcing yourself into the wrong one, while a short rope restricts how wide the elbows and hands can get.
ATHLEAN-X™ · Do This AFTER Every Workout (NON NEGOTIABLE!)
Recommendation · MoneyJemima Abu advises making it mandatory for your agents to follow your accessibility guidelines: every single time your agent runs, tell it to make sure you are building things in a way that people can use them, not just the way you think they should be used. It's easy to forget about accessibility when you have three hours to the deadline, but if your agent has it in mind, it's more likely to actually get done.
AI Engineer · Teach Your AI Agent to Build Products Everyone Can Use - Jemima Abu, CAIS
Recommendation · MoneyJemima Abu advises that when prompting your agent, you should tell it to default to the best way of writing things. She notes that for web products there is a popular way to do things, but it's not always the right way, and says it's the developer's job to tell AI: don't go for what's popular, go for what is best. Part of your skill should also look out for cases where AI defaults to the popular rather than the best implementation.
AI Engineer · Teach Your AI Agent to Build Products Everyone Can Use - Jemima Abu, CAIS
RecommendationRecovery mechanisms should not be applied uniformly to all failures — not every failure can be recovered the same way.
AI Engineer · Your Coding Agent Can't Undo Its Own Mistakes - Tanmay Sah & Dolly Sah
RecommendationAs agents are given more autonomy, they should also be given more reliable ways to recover from their actions.
AI Engineer · Your Coding Agent Can't Undo Its Own Mistakes - Tanmay Sah & Dolly Sah
RecommendationDifferent recovery strategies are needed depending on the failure phase.
AI Engineer · Your Coding Agent Can't Undo Its Own Mistakes - Tanmay Sah & Dolly Sah
Recommendation · MoneyVinoo Ganesh says we are now out of the search phase of AI and need to be building infrastructure, scaffolding, harnesses, and substrates that enable us to build a database to make use of this technology.
AI Engineer · AI Can't Make Up a Number It Can't Look Up - Vinoo Ganesh, Kepler
Recommendation · MoneyVinoo Ganesh recommends making sure you have a good mechanism of actually constraining the set of documents that come back with each query, which he frames as really important for protecting alpha.
AI Engineer · AI Can't Make Up a Number It Can't Look Up - Vinoo Ganesh, Kepler
Recommendation · MoneyThe way to solve all these security problems is scoping searches with security built in.
AI Engineer · AI Can't Make Up a Number It Can't Look Up - Vinoo Ganesh, Kepler
Recommendation · MoneyNouha Dziri recommends framing team design as a compute allocation problem: starting from a solo agent, ask where the next dollar of inference buys the most reward. Teams of agents cost more than a solo agent, so the question is where the next dollar of inference-time compute should go to maximize reward at lower cost.
AI Engineer · How to Get Frontier Coding Results at 70% Lower Cost - Nouha Dziri, Cohere
RecommendationAfter refining component documentation with the agent based on team conventions, turn that conversation into a reusable skill by prompting: 'Turn this into a custom MOSF documentation skill.'
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Figma · Speed up design system documentation with the Figma agent
Method · MoneyTo introduce clearer oversight for your organization accounts, audit changes through the activity log in your Figma organization account: head to the file browser, find Admin in the left sidebar, select Activity, and use the fields to filter results by your desired criteria. You can filter by member, date, event, and team.
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Figma · Setup the Figma Github app for your organization
Recommendation · MoneyAamir Shakir recommends using bounding boxes to reference visual layout so an analyst or agent can backtrack and cite where information comes from.
AI Engineer · Better Search Took This AI Agent From 36% to 98% Accuracy - Aamir Shakir, Mixedbread
Recommendation · MoneyCoding tasks at Revolut are never considered autonomous agents; they're always with a human in the loop. To give reassurance to regulators, create a sandbox that guarantees a human in the loop, and set rules in the sandbox for operations you don't want to allow — for example, allow grep but not gradle — to show it's not an autonomous agent needing different supervision. The sandbox also protects against rogue use: you may have bad actors inside your company, and you'd be surprised what you find in a large company. Prompt injection is not much of a thing now given how smart models are, but it's always a thing to guard against.
AI Engineer · How Revolut Cut AI Coding Costs 90% With Self-Hosted Open Models - David Abitbol, Revolut