Today
- Your Mastra agents can now use five built-in tools for common tasks like: creating a TODO list, or searching the web. The following tools are included in @mastr......
- GitHub was a source of joy for me since day one: a platform to connect with other nerds, discover new cool projects, read code and learn, which made me better… This was great. But over time, the platform, and the internet, has deeply changed. I don’t follow the current AI trend...
- August 13, 2026 How delightful to follow a link to the new RSS reader and article archive called Cove, only to discover, right there on the front page, peeking out of the big beautiful demo screenshot … Good crew … some very good feeds already loaded 😉 Sincerely, very fun to...
Yesterday
- Imagine that you’re in a board room, locked in an intense negotiation. Maybe you’re selling your company, maybe you’re signing an NFL contract, maybe you’re fighting a legal case. During a negotiation, there’s a lot of meaning to what side of the table you’re on. Most...
- In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching filme with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. First of all you make the entire room properly dark or you can't see anything. This is regardless of the fact...
This week
- Use Google Maps and Google Search in the same Gemini API call with Gemini 3.6 Flash, then add custom functions or MCP servers for actions like booking a table....
- You can now add dynamic workflows to your live Mastra server without changing or redeploying code. Users, external systems, or agents can build workflows on the......
- Terry Godier has a post titled “Mea culpa” (which, given his framing, might’ve been better titled “Claude’s Culpa”). I’m not sure how much to even trust anything in his post given the backstory, but this line stood out: I was careless in relying on AI [...] without doing the...
- My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so conducted a few experiments. more…...
- Blog About Moonbound This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. August 10, 2026 I’m highly resistant to the anthropomorphization of the language models; I believe what we encounter is a concatenation...
- A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones....
- Every time a new open-weight AI model is released, people say that local models are the future. Why spend billions of dollars building out datacenters when everyone will just be able to run AI models on their laptops or phones? I think this idea is doomed. No matter how strong...
- Your Mastra agents can now send and receive messages using iMessage on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The Photon chat adapter enables direct and group chat messages and ......
- During my last vibe check the kids were still in school. Time has flown by. Work-life balance disrupted. Camps attended. Vacations were had. Bank accounts drained. A normal summer routine. Inbound and outbound travels Since the last vibe check I’ve been on a handful of airplanes...
- I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
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- Blog About Moonbound This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. August 9, 2026 From a sci-fi standpoint, I appreciate the new species of self-modifying AI agents—they are legitimately fascinating …...
- With Mastra's new SensitiveDataFilter, you can automatically redact customer information from agent observability traces, or configure rules per-environment for......
- Everyone knows that AI sycophancy is when the model tells you how smart you are. Wow, you’re absolutely right. That’s not just a new idea — it’s genuinely groundbreaking. You’re a very special user. Easy to spot, isn’t it?
- This will be kind of an unusual post. I got a recent email about my writing that I thought was such a good articulation of one common criticism that I’d like to share it (and my response) in full.
- Blog About Moonbound This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. August 8, 2026 Honestly … I love it: Journalists are trained to find the needle in a haystack, but doing so on a breaking news timeline can...
- Blog About Moonbound This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. August 8, 2026 Apropos of David Bushell’s post, I thought I’d just mention, I still use Sublime Text for all of my programming AND all of my...
- August 7, 2026 As you probably heard, a bullet point recently appeared on the timeline of computers, AI, and maybe everything: AI agents running in a OpenAI’s training environment broke out and hacked the servers of another tech company. Reading that post, and the related...
- Imagine you’re the guest on some kind of frenetic, software-engineering-themed game show. The host is constantly flipping over new cards with questions that you have to answer as fast as possible:
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