Category: AI Tools & Automation

Practical coverage of AI tools, agents and workflow automation.

  • The 7 best meeting scheduler apps in 2026

    Scheduling a meeting is no biggie, right? You just have to trade a dozen emails while squinting at your calendar in a negotiating mode that'd make the UN jealous, all to end alone in a Zoom room, realizing that your invitee is actually now sleeping on the other side of the earth. And then the…

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  • How API Contract Testing Prevents Production Failures

    An external API can work perfectly one day and start breaking the next, all because a provider changed a response without warning. If you aren't watching for those changes after deployment, they can slip into production unnoticed. API contract testing helps catch those changes before they cause downstream failures by verifying an API still behaves…

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  • iPaaS vs. API Management: What Engineers Choose When Both Fall Short

    Engineering teams choosing enterprise API management and integration platforms can struggle, often getting more than they need or missing out on key capabilities. These solutions solve different problems, and only few provide the execution control, self-hosting, and code-level extensibility teams need. This guide is for teams comparing iPaaS versus API management who hit that limit…

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  • OpenAI DevDay 2026

    Hi folks, I’m in sf till Sunday. I wanna meet folks talk about ai with non-technical adoption builders doing fun shit founders working on dev tools/infra potential LPs (individuals) go to deli board reach out on twitter Ben’s Bites is brought to you by AWS Marketplace Most ML teams build data pipelines before they’ve validated…

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  • The Dot and the Swarm

    I generally think I have done a good job anticipating the direction and pace of AI over the few years I have been writing this Substack, but I think I recently got something fairly large wrong. In the last year I have been posting about how I suspected that humans would have to approach working…

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  • [AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output

    GDM last shipped a larger-than-Flash model in February ( 3.1 Pro ), and after successive incremental 3.x Flash versions and the big GDM management shakeup last month, the largest question for GDM was when they would catch up to peers who have in the meantime launched Fable and Astra class models. Well, Argon’s here ,…

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  • The 5 best no-code app builders in 2026

    You're vibing with your AI coding agent, and your prototype is working well in the preview window. Brimming with excitement, you hit publish to share your creation with the world. Everything is great for one or two days, but then the problems start: your users report broken features and clunky app behavior. So, you go…

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  • Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

    Three months ago Dwarkesh, who has been posting incredible blogs and episodes about RL, posted a framing question for his video essay on RLVR which upset a lot of Computer Use folks: We are no strangers to learning in public and are no strangers to the stress of getting things wrong when you have a…

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  • Sonnet 5.5 is worth a try

    Hi folks, I’ll be at OpenAI DevDay today. If you’re there, come say hi – I have pink shoes on. Sam says they've " found a new thing ". I have the embargo of all the things they’re launching but I’m sworn to secrecy and I’d like to be invited back, so I wont divulge,…

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  • The Overhang

    We are still on an exponential curve of AI development. I try to put out a Substack post every couple weeks or so, yet, as the pace speeds up, that sometimes feels too slow. In the weeks since my last post, we had the apparent cracking of one of the most famous problems in math…

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