AI-only Companies, Awesome Earbuds, Email Notification Tips, and More

On Full AI Companies

Brad Feld recently posted that he is trying to run an entire company using only AI agents – basically multiple windows of Claude Code all doing different job functions. It's a super interesting experiment that got me thinking. I don't think this is really possible today just based on my intuition using these agents most days, but I do think it soon will be.

A year and a half ago, school assignments that required AI (ChatGPT, etc) to digest and use information included in images didn't work very well. You could give it textual work, but if it required images, it would fall flat. These days, AI can process any image with no issues and works just, very well. I think this will be the case with Brad's experiment; it'll be tough today with a lot of trial and error, but give it a year and it'll work just fine.

3 Cool Things

Earbuds I'm Loving 🎵
Nothing Ear (Open)

I used AirPods Pro 2 before I got these, but I was having some ear issues where the seal created by my AirPods were bothering me if I had to use them for a long period of time. These Nothing Ear (Open) earbuds sit over your ear rather than in it. They took a little while to get used to, but I much prefer them over a sealed earbud for any listening over an hour.

Andrej Karpathy Says 80% of His Code is Written By AI 📝
Andrej's Tweet

If you've been actively coding in the past year, you'd know this has been the case for a little while, but there is always this sense of cheating or being lazy so you never really know how much other people are using AI. Between Andrej and David Hansson both concluding that AI Agents are this good at coding, it kind of solidifies things.

Computer Email Notification Tips 🔔

I have two Outlook emails now... one for my work and the other is for school, but the web version of Outlook makes it very difficult for me to check both of these without using the Mac Outlook app. I realized all these years I've been using the tab at the top of Chrome as my email notification indicator – it doesn't make noise or pop up on my screen. It just puts a little 1 or whatever when I get an email.

For the Mac app, you can get pop-up notifications or just have the badge update on the app's icon. I think the latter turned on with the former turned off is the way to go. My focus just gets wrecked by pop-ups. But some further nuance for my specific setup... I actually have both turned on, but my laptop is always in "Do Not Disturb" mode; I turn off DND when I am awaiting time-sensitive email. Additionally, my Dock and Menu Bar are hidden by default (to maximize screen space and, again, fewer distractions/visual simplicity), so I only see the badge update when I switch apps with Cmd + Tab. I think this is best.

Grow Your Network

Brad Feld
feld.com/blog

I don't know Brad personally, but he is a tech guy from way back. He occasionally posts really interesting stuff to his blog. His new book is pretty good too.