AI Agents Just Got Stupid Easy to Build

"I built an AI agent went from PhD thesis to Tuesday afternoon side project."

Hello Builders! 👋

Anthropic just donated the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation, and this is actually a big deal for anyone building AI agents. MCP went from zero to "foundational protocol" in just one year.

MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to data sources and tools. Before this, every AI app needed custom integrations for everything. Now it's becoming the USB-C of agentic AI. Moving it to Linux Foundation means it won't be controlled by one company, which should accelerate adoption across competing AI platforms.

Claude Agent SDK Goes Big - 1M context windows, sandboxing, and TypeScript v2 make building custom agents actually feasible now.

Gemini Tests Video Templates - Experimental template gallery lets you create videos from prompts, rolling out to small user group first.

Figma's AI Image Tools - Erase, expand backgrounds, and isolate objects without leaving Figma Design or Draw—basically Photoshop lite.

ChatGPT Integrates Adobe Apps - Edit photos in Photoshop and PDFs in Acrobat directly from ChatGPT for free, no app switching required.

Replit's Race to Revenue - 20 builders get Replit credits and an 8-week program to ship actual revenue-generating products, zero equity taken.

10 GitHub Repos That Actually Teach Agents - Forget the courses—Shraddha breaks down the repos that taught her more about AI agents than any paid bootcamp.

Maximize Agentic Memory Systems - Deep dive into continual learning patterns so your LLMs actually remember context instead of forgetting everything between sessions.

Self-Hosted Multi-User Chatbot Blueprint - End-to-end platform guide for building secure, personal agentic assistants with proper file access controls and vector search.

AI Code's Maintainability Tax - Velocity is up and tests pass, but your codebase is quietly becoming unmaintainable—here's the hidden cost.

AI Code Review That Actually Ships - Plugs GPT-4 and Claude into your GitHub PRs with automated feedback and a dashboard to track code quality trends over time.

Single Image to Storyboard - Dor Labs generates multiple frames from one shot, then you animate with Kling—basically turning static images into video sequences.

AI Power Users 6x Everyone Else - OpenAI's enterprise report shows the 95th percentile user sends 6x more messages than median across 1M customers.

Ban "I Asked ChatGPT" Comments? - HN meta-debate on whether "I asked Gemini and it said..." replies should be against community guidelines.

Vibe Coding Needs Real Skills - Hot take: vibe coding only works if you already know UX/UI, product management, or development terminology.

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation - Anthropic's MCP, Blocks' goose, and OpenAI's tool contributions unite under one roof for shared agent standards.

Google Goes All-In on MCP - Managed MCP servers for Maps and BigQuery mean agents can finally talk to Google services without janky custom integrations.

Former Slack CEO Joins OpenAI - Denise Dresser becomes Chief Revenue Officer, bringing enterprise sales muscle as OpenAI chases those sweet corporate contracts.

Anthropic's SGTM Research Drops - New technique isolates dangerous knowledge in separate model layers during training, making it easier to surgically remove the spicy bits.

Fal Raises $140M Series D - Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA pile into the AI infrastructure company as inference costs become the new battleground.

Former GitLab CEO Launches Kilo - Another AI coding assistant enters the thunderdome because apparently we need a dozen more Copilot competitors.

Hinge CEO Launches AI Dating - Overtone promises AI-powered matchmaking from the guy who ran Hinge, because apparently dating apps needed more algorithms.

AI Pricing Models Guide - Pro, Developer, and Enterprise tiers compared

With MCP heading to the Agentic AI Foundation and Claude dropping new agent SDK updates, we're watching the "build your own agent" movement go mainstream fast. Wild to think custom agents might be as common as custom GPTs by this time next year.

What are you building or shipping this week?

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you haven't tried the Claude Agent SDK yet, their new streaming support and error handling updates are chef's kiss for debugging those "why is my agent doing that?!" moments.