AI Agents + Google Studio: Your Dev Toolkit Upgrade

"AI startup idea: Uber but for debugging your code at 3 AM."

Hello Builders! 👋

OpenAI just dropped Aardvark into private beta, a GPT-5-powered agent that hunts down and fixes security bugs for you. Meanwhile, Google AI Studio rolled out new tools to explore, debug, and share logs, plus we're seeing a wave of new frameworks like Qodo Command and Datapizza AI making it easier than ever to build custom AI agents.

OpenAI just casually dropped Aardvark, an AI agent powered by GPT-5 that hunts down security, they're using it to build autonomous security researchers.

Automated vulnerability scanning isn't new, but an agent that can actually reason about code context and chain together exploits? That's a different beast entirely. If this thing can legitimately find logic bugs and not just SQL injection attempts from 2010, we might actually be looking at something that changes how security teams operate.

OpenAI's Aardvark - GPT-5-powered agent that hunts security bugs. Private beta only, because apparently we're not ready for AI testers running wild yet.

Google AI Studio gets debug tools - New logging features to explore and share your prompt debugging sessions. About damn time we got proper observability tools.

Sora adds pay-per-video credits - Burned through your monthly allowance making AI cat videos? OpenAI will happily sell you more tokens. The meter's always running.

v0 sidebar upgrades - Manage integrations, rules, environment variables, and design systems from one sidebar. Small quality-of-life win for the "vibe coding" crowd.

Canva launches its own design model - Canva's not licensing someone else's model anymore—they built their own.

Microsoft's "vibe code" agent - Microsoft really said "vibe code" in official marketing. Agent builds apps and automations while you describe them in vibes.

Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research - AI-powered patent search and analysis tool

🚀 Build Custom AI Agents with Qodo Command - CLI tool for spinning up AI agents without the usual framework bloat.

Build LLM Agents Faster with Datapizza AI - New GenAI framework "Made in Italy" promises faster agent development.

New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents - Gergely digs into devs running multiple coding agents simultaneously. Chaotic? Yes. The future? Maybe.

Free $2,500 Agentic AI Course - 15,000 people paid $2,500 for this course, now it's free on GitHub.

Pat Walls' AI coding setup 6.0 - Cursor IDE + two Claude Code instances in split terminals. Parallel bug fixing like having two pair programmers who never get tired.

Reasoning models change the economics - User feedback improves reasoning models faster than pre-training alone. The flywheel actually spins now instead of burning cash on labeled data.

The social cost of meeting bots - Why Granola won: no awkward bot joining your calls. In tech and finance, the cringe factor outweighs the automation benefit.

Vibe coders need vibe debuggers - The inevitable next step after vibes-based development. Can't wait for vibe-driven monitoring and vibe incident response.

GitHub's agent platform play signals Microsoft's AI strategy - Microsoft's betting big on being the infrastructure layer for AI agents.

YC alum Adam raises $4.1M for text-to-3D AI copilot - After 10M+ social impressions on their text-to-3D tool, they're pivoting to a full copilot.

Affinity Studio Goes Free - The Adobe killer just became actually free. Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps with no subscription nonsense.

Why this isn't the dot-com bubble - Gavin Baker's take: 97% of fiber laid in 2000 went unused. Today's AI infrastructure is actually being used immediately.

ComfyUI Video Upscaler - Fully open-source video upscaling workflow that actually works. Built entirely in ComfyUI nodes, which is the nerd way but apparently gets better results than the one-click tools.

Context Engineering Data Pipeline - 1000+ connectors for pulling data into your AI agents from basically anywhere. The unsexy infrastructure work that makes RAG systems not suck.

God will be declared by a panel of experts - Vergecast discusses OpenAI's AGI definition debate

I just realized that most "overnight successes" I've studied actually had 3-7 failed projects before their big win. The difference? They kept the lessons, ditched the baggage, and started fresh each time. Your next attempt is probably closer than you think.

So what are you actually building right now? Not the dream version or what you wish you were working on—what's the messy, half-finished thing you're wrestling with this weekend? Hit reply and tell me. I read every response, and your answer might just spark an idea for a future issue.

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you've been "planning to start" something for more than two weeks, you're not planning anymore—you're stalling. Open a blank document right now and write one ugly sentence about it. That's your new starting point.