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AI Weekly Round-Up #35: AI Consultants making $25k and building a self-improving company
Happy weekend!
The NBA finals are locked in and we have a new Opus model.
If you’re new here, every week I curate my top AI articles, tweets, podcasts and tutorials (so that you don’t have to).
Let’s jump in!
1. My Agent Stack For Automating My Personal Life
It’s been 2 months since I ditched my OpenClaw and I’m still looking for something to unify my texts, calendar, email and notes.
Here’s a promising system on Codex that uses open-source CLIs for iMessage and Gmail.
It’s also interesting that he uses Markdown files with Google Drive versus Notion. I’m a bit wary of the security risk with all these connectors, but I’m going to give it a slow test run.
You too can build yourself a personal assistant without any technical skills
Do you want your own AI Chief of Staff but lack the know-how to hack CLIs and Github repos? Claude Cowork is your answer.
Cowork is a powerful tool that leverages your data via Microsoft 365, Google Suite, Slack, Granola and countless other connectors.
Imagine sitting down Monday morning and your meetings are already prepped, your inbox is triaged, and last week’s notes are organized — all before you’ve even opened your laptop.
Get $100 off the course until Saturday June 6th with the code CLAUDE-AGENT.
How to build a self-improving company
Anthropic claims that Claude Code is writing 90% of its code. If this is true, it’s an example of a company using AI with self-improvement loops. In theory, if you have the right data and “judgment layers” you should be off to the races. But is this actually possible with knowledge work?
Software after AI
If model intelligence is converging, why is there still so much differentiation between Codex, Claude Code and OpenClaw? The answer lies in the harness — and here are the 7 components that drive this differentiation.
The Best of the Rest
How AI helps me read more — I’ve been loving Readwise’s MCP integration with Cowork and Codex.
These AI gurus are charging Wall Street banks $25,000 a day — Demand for LaTour AI’s services has been gangbusters. But I ain’t charging this rate.
Bankers’ love of Claude AI carries a high price — The “Uber subsidies” are gone and many are getting sticker shock.
Watts, wafers and the future of AI Infra — An AI bull on the innovation in data centers, power and the role of space.
The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work — Dan Shipper rebuts the SaaS apocalypse, the job-pocalypse and predicts the rise of the corporate “super agent.”
Master Claude Cowork (and save $100) — Enroll in Unfair Advantage with the code CLAUDE-AGENT valid until Saturday 6/6.