Claude Just Became Your Slack Coworker

"Deploying to production on a Friday used to be our biggest fear—now it's accidentally @-mentioning Claude in the company Slack and watching it refactor the entire codebase."

Hello Builders! 👋

The "dream POV" AI video workflow just got cracked wide open, and it's stupidly simple. Justine Moore figured out you can pump short GoPro-style prompts into Sora 2 and get those trippy first-person videos everyone's been obsessing over.

Everyone's going to flood feeds with dream POV clips for about two weeks, then the format dies. But the underlying lesson sticks: figure out the simple workflow behind complex-looking AI outputs, and you've got a window to build something people actually want before the masses catch up.

Claude Slides Into Slack DMs - Tag @Claude in any Slack channel and it'll spin up a Code session automatically for coding tasks.

iFixit's AI Repair Sidekick - New iOS/Android app includes FixBot, an AI that troubleshoots repairs like a master technician would (allegedly).

n8n 2.0 Gets Serious - The workflow automation tool ships secure-by-default execution with better reliability and performance under the hood.

Google's LiteRT NeuroPilot Accelerator - Built with MediaTek for mobile GenAI, claims 12x speedup vs CPU and optimized for Gemma and Qwen models.

Google's Doppl Goes Shopping - The AI try-on app adds a shoppable discovery feed so you can impulse buy clothes on your digital twin.

SnapKit Auto-Generates Social Captions - Upload a pic, get captions and hashtags ready to post—another weekend vibe-coding project that actually shipped.

GraphRAG Without the Bloat - Partha Sarkar shows how hybrid pipelines beat expensive dense graphs while actually improving recall and slashing costs.

AI Career Roadmap Reality Check - Skip the theory hell and build actual projects that matter, because nobody's hiring based on Coursera certificates anymore.

Vibe-Coded Christmas Calendar Breakdown - Behind-the-scenes look at building that viral holiday app, covering design decisions and the messy learning process we all pretend doesn't happen.

Vision-Powered Android Automation - Control your Android phone by describing what you want in plain English using vision-language models.

What Is Vibe Coding? How Anyone Can Make Apps With the Help of AI - AI-powered app development for non-coders

AI's Cinderella Problem - a16z coins term for AI products where early adopters stick around but new users churn faster.

Mobile Apps Are Back - 2025 sees biggest year for new mobile apps in eight years, driven by vibe coding making development accessible.

Coding Agents Backup Your Secrets - Developer catches AI agent creating .env.bak file, because nothing says security like version-controlling your API keys.

Cursor's Free Lunch - GPT 5.1 Max now free in Cursor, pair with Opus 4.5 for fast and cheap builds.

a16z Drops $475M on AI Chips - Unconventional AI gets massive seed round to build efficient AI-first chips, led by repeat founder Naveen Rao.

a16z Bets $12M on Fixing Government Procurement - Pryzm tackles the nightmare of federal procurement rules that waste months of engineering time on paperwork.

Empromptu Raises $2M for AI App Builder - Tell a chatbot what you want in HTML or JavaScript and it builds the app for you.

Commerce Approves Nvidia H200 China Exports - Plot twist: Department of Commerce greenlights H200 exports to China right after Congress tried blocking them.

Google Backs Indian Vibe Coding Startup - Emergent snags strategic investment from Google's AI Futures Fund for their natural language coding platform.

Trump's One Rule Order - Executive order would block state AI laws, arguing companies shouldn't need 50 approvals for every feature.

Wild that we're at the point where you can tag Claude in Slack to delegate coding tasks while GraphRAG is making retrieval actually affordable. The tooling is finally catching up to the hype.

What are you shipping this week? Any experiments with these new workflows?

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you're still using basic vector search in 2025, that GraphRAG article is your sign to level up. Your retrieval accuracy (and AWS bill) will thank you.