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Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick highlights that we are entering the AgenTik Gemini era. The Antigravity agent harness has become the unifying throughline for Google products, shifting from Gemini API-driven to agent-native capabilities across coding, search, and consumer apps. Models are eating the scaffolding, with agent harnesses increasingly integrated natively.

Coding agents are the most mature use case today, but long-horizon agents are advancing quickly. Omni demonstrates world model potential as a single model handling video editing and generative media, preserving creator authenticity rather than AI avatars. Google prioritizes maximizing customer outcomes over screen time, crucial in the agent era.

Quote: "Success for Google probably doesn't look like maximizing eyeball time in front of our products. It's like maximizing outcome for customers."

Box CEO Aaron Levie notes that agents will use software 100X more than people, requiring strong guardrails, authoritative sources of truth, and auditing. Headless agent interactions will dramatically increase value in CRM, documents, and analytics data. Sakana's Fugu model showcases innovative AI architecture via mixture-of-experts routing.

Vertical domain expert startups still have massive opportunity as big companies struggle with focus, while startups can accelerate past them with focus and agents.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch warns that coding agents will squeeze every ounce of the IKEA effect if you let them. His team deeply optimized performance across painting, layout, WebGPU shaders, scrutinizing every frame, with lessons shared in docs.

Father's Day reflection: thankful to dad for buying the 'bicycle of the mind'.

Swyx shares experience shopping insurance for New Media Lab, highly recommending Corgi for its insane NPS and near 100% greenfield market share in the space.

OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux asks what to improve in the Codex app and how users think about banking usage resets (hoarding vs. spending freely).

Cursor designer Ryo Lu built Books in ryOS supporting any epub with ryOS account sync, hand-tuning animations and textures. Started in Cursor mobile.

Peter Yang explains why HTML became foundation for agentic video: LLM's native language expressing visual aesthetics. Recommends Ferryman for cross-posting.

Zara Zhang shares rule of thumb to prevent AI slop: input context should be significantly longer than output (often 3-5x). Short inputs lead to poor results.

YC CEO Garry Tan emphasizes collecting personal and company context is key at the dawn of usable AGI. He open sourced GBrain.

Linear Head of Product Nan Yu quotes “Quality is irrational” and stresses irrational commitment to quality over frameworks. Discusses default behaviors.

OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger shares updates: hype died down, focus on quality and team as non-profit. Skeptical of multi-model routing.

FPV Ventures partner Nikunj Kothari shares weekly flow of engaging with interesting X projects and challenges in responding to all DMs.