Kevin Kaiser

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

OpenAI quietly solved the single problem that's been blocking computer-use agents from going mainstream: the cursor war. Anthropic shipped computer use in October 2024. OpenAI shipped Operator. Google shipped Mariner. All three hit the same wall. When the agent moves the cursor, you can't. The screen is one resource, and two drivers cannot share it. Every demo ended the same way: "run this while I go get coffee." That kills the ROI math. If the human has to stop working to let the agent work, the agent is functionally a replacement. Adoption of computer-use agents flatlined at power users and scripted demos for exactly this reason. Here's what OpenAI actually shipped. Codex runs multiple agents against your real Mac apps, in parallel, with their own cursors, in the background, while you keep using your machine. The mechanism is OS-level sandboxing. OpenAI acquired Sky Applications last fall. That's the team that built Workflow, which became Apple Shortcuts. They spent a decade figuring out how to let third-party code drive other Mac apps without breaking the foreground experience. OpenAI didn't buy a team. They bought the only people on Earth who had solved this. The economic unit of white-collar work just changed. Yesterday the ceiling was one human with one agent doing one task. Today it's one human supervising five agents working across five apps the human is simultaneously using. The bottleneck stops being compute. It becomes the human's ability to review output. Codex has 3M weekly devs. The feature that matters is not the IDE. It's that OpenAI turned the Mac into a multiplayer instrument.

Codex for (almost) everything. It can now use apps on your Mac, connect to more of your tools, create images, learn from previous actions, remember how you like to work, and take on ongoing and repeatable tasks.

The Codex promotion for existing Plus subscribers ends today and as a part of this, we’re rebalancing Codex usage in Plus to support more sessions throughout the week, rather than longer sessions in a single day. The Plus plan will continue to be the best offer at $20 for steady, day-to-day usage of Codex, and the new $100 Pro tier offers a more accessible upgrade path for heavier daily use.

cursor now has design mode (⇧+⌘+D) - click to edit, drag to draw - shift + drag to box things in - add directly to chat with ⌥+click

STATE OF THE PRODUCT JOB MARKET IN EARLY 2026 In spite of the headlines about layoffs and AI taking jobs, we’re actually seeing a lot of promising signs in tech hiring, and some interesting new trends: 1. PM openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over three years 2. AI hasn’t slowed the demand for software engineers (at least not yet) 3. AI roles in general are absolutely exploding 4. Design roles have plateaued 5. The Bay Area is increasing in importance 6. Remote work opportunities continue to decline 7. Despite ongoing layoffs, the overall number of tech jobs continues to grow More in 🧵