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Agents
How To Adapt Your Product for AI Agent Users
Till Döhmen July 22, 2026 Guest contributor: Till Döhmen is the AI Lead at MotherDuck, building AI-native data products and advancing agentic workflows, developer tools, and intelligent analytics. For most of the history of software, the user was a human. What we call user experience was optimized for someone with eyes, intuition, and the ability to navigate
Till Döhmen · JUL 22, 2026
Models
AI Is the Most Profound Invention in Human History
Guest contributor: Gopi Kallayil is Google's Chief Business Strategist for AI, advising leaders on AI, innovation, and business transformation. He is also a TEDx speaker, author, and former McKinsey consultant. For over 12,000 years, human beings have been building tools to solve problems. It's what separates us from every other species on the planet. We bui
Gopi Kallayil · JUL 14, 2026
Agents
The New Coding Agents Problem: They Don’t Work Together
Zach Lloyd, Founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-native developer platform. Previously a Principal Engineer at Google, he led engineering for Google Docs and Google Sheets. The past year saw an explosion of coding agents, like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Warp Agent, highly capable tools increasingly taking on the work of a junior engineer. Developers have spen
Zach Lloyd · JUL 7, 2026
Policy & Governance
AI Won't Build Houses. But It Can Get Them Approved Faster.
Cyrus Symoom, CEO at Clariti, a leading provider of community development solutions that help local governments modernize permitting operations, simplify staff workflows, strengthen compliance, and deliver faster, more consistent permit outcomes. You submit your construction plans to the city and wait. Weeks pass, then months. Nobody calls. When you finally
Cyrus Symoom · JUN 30, 2026
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From the Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist · July 22, 2026
The Efficiency Reckoning Hits AI
This week, the room kept circling one question: are we getting more useful AI, or just more AI? The mood swung between sharp skepticism about model economics and genuine disbelief at how quickly the hardware race keeps accelerating.
- ▸ Gemini Flash faces the completion test
- ▸ China, model theft, and a familiar argument
- ▸ The chip race gets ridiculous
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Tools & Experiments
New · Agent skill
Relay
Route one coding task through a frontier planner, fast executor, and independent reviewer using the models your environment exposes.
Open library
Loop Library
Find useful agent loops and learn how loops work.
Explore the library ↗Agent skill
Loop Skill
Find, adapt, and design repeatable workflows inside your coding agent.
Install the skill ↗Live forecast
Will Codex Reset?
A weather report for the question every Codex user eventually asks.
Check the forecast ↗Practical AI playbooks
Guides
Guide · March 2026
Your First AI Agent: A Practical Guide to OpenClaw
A branded beginner's guide to OpenClaw with setup steps, core concepts, first-week workflows, safety guidance, and a downloadable PDF companion.
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Guide · February 09, 2026
What People Are Actually Doing With OpenClaw: 25+ Use Cases
A practical OpenClaw field guide with 25+ real use cases across business ops, development workflows, content production, and smart home automation.
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Guide · January 12, 2026
The AI 50: 50 Real-World AI Use Cases Every Professional Should Know
A practical collection of 50 real-world AI use cases covering planning, writing, operations, analysis, and everyday professional workflows.
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Guide · November 18, 2025
Humanity’s Last Prompt Engineering Guide: Built for the Gemini 3 Era
A Gemini-first edition of Forward Future’s prompt engineering guide, focused on the fastest way to become a more capable Gemini power user.
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