Jack Driscoll

@sama lol no way

you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering.

@astnkennedy To quote from @yacineMTB

I can relate to this. Highly reccomend reducing your workflow down to 2-3 agents. Use 1-2 as executors. And 1 as a personal tutor that explains architecture and data flows to you as you build. Ask it questions. Go deep. Sketch stuff out on paper. Build. Learn. Repeat. Take it slower than you think. It’s okay to leave agents waiting. As builders we have forgotten that what often drives us is our curiosity and desire to learn, and that is taken from us when we are trying to maximize agent output. You can outsource your thinking to ai, but you cannot outsource your understanding.

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain. Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me. In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently. None of us feel as sharp as we used to. I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot. P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

@mercury When the Hats are so heat they have you considering a career transition…

Mercury hats: a thread

@agilek buddy your bio literally reads “ex pwc” pls relax

@jack___driscoll The UX demonstrated on the video is rather meh...

I've been building with the cursor SDK for a few days now. It's awesome. 🧵 I embedded a cursor agent directly inside Gmail:

@adityaag Good take

Some observations on agents from a lot of time spent installing, using, debugging and building things with OpenClaw, Hermes, etc. - Most people who rave about OpenClaw, HermesAgent etc. have not actually used it. Facts. - Agents are developer products today. They are so so so far from being consumer grade in terms of delight, simplicity, reliability etc. - I wish the agents generated more dynamic interfaces. Don't give me chat. Give me interactive, dynamic apps/webpages. I suspect this will be a next big vector of innovation. - The agents are ultimately a wrapper to code-generation and tool-calling....not to "generative AI". This is important to grok. These agents are doing most of their "work" through iterative tool calling. - Once you understand the core loop behind agentic AI, old school "chat AI" doesn't make sense. The idea of an "always-on" agent that actually adapts, learns and maintains state is a LOT more compelling than a one-off chat prompt. The latter feels much more like a search query. - So much of mangling with agents today is basically setting it up to use browsers and/or your computer. And there are so many constraints! - Installing and running openclaw feels a lot like running Linux in the early 2000s. You spend a lot of time compiling device drivers, setting up configurations etc. You feel a real sense of accomplishment from jerry-rigging everything together but it is a LOT of work to get to the point of utility

Thanks for the comment! - not quite putting Cursor inside Gmail - more like using Gmail/Chat as the intake surface for code work. flow is: -share an email/thread into Chat, -the app classifies what kind of request it is -a Cursor SDK agent can pick up the actual engineering task: bug investigaiton, doc update, draft a fix, turn thread into working pr, etc... The interesting bit is moving from “someone emailed me context” to “an agent is working on it." and I'm sure it could helpful in email responses as well!

@jack___driscoll wait you're putting cursor inside gmail?? that's wild. what does the agent handle, sorting emails or drafting replies or something? genuinely curious what tasks you're offloading to it

@prashant_hq open source blueprint coming soon!!

@jack___driscoll where do i add my opencode go api key?

@bygregorr agree. did you write this with ai?

@jack___driscoll The real flex isn't the tool, it's picking the right surface. Gmail is where decisions actually live, not a sidebar nobody opens.

The biggest difference IMO is that Cursor SDK isn’t just “call an LLM with tools.” It’s exposing the same coding-agent runtime Cursor already uses: repo context, edit/search/terminal workflow, streaming status, model choice, and local/hosted execution. For this demo, Gmail/Chat is just the intake/collab layer. Cursor SDK is the part that can actually go operate on a codebase like a Cursor agent would. (in short: the harness)

@jack___driscoll What is different about the cursor SDK than the other SDK's on the market?

@mocchicc exactly! or from gmail...

めっちゃよさそうやん CSが客先からPRドラフト書けるのでは Notion議事録から軽微な開発アクションプランを一部勝手に実行してくれるようになったり

ty! I actually avoided the browser-extension path. The trick is using Gmail’s native “share in Chat” flow, then letting a Google Chat app pick up the context and route it through theCursor SDK. Much less brittle than injecting UI into Gmail, and the result lives in a thread I can share with people on my team!

@jack___driscoll that's so cool you embedded it directly inside gmail, what was the process like integrating it with gmail's browser extension restrictions?

@RBouschery Thank you! Your project is dope too!

@jack___driscoll super cool!

@kailab744 Thanks!

@jack___driscoll それは面白い

@christianjesusz probably not a browser extension tbh. the whole thing I like here is that Gmail already has a “add to Chat” button. The user can push an email thread into a real workspace conversation and the agent can work from there. feels much cleaner than injecting UI into Gmail.

@jack___driscoll next step is creating a browser extension?

@aye_aye_kaplan Woooo thanks for the bump! Very early stages but planning on open sourcing the blueprint for this soon!

this is actually so sick, I can't believe what y'all are doing with these tools...love it

@vaaselene Flash lite is not bad if you want a quick router

is anyone using Gemini?

How it works: → Gmail “add to chat” → google chat opens and i tag my agent "@uma" (custom google app) → pulls in the email thread + user intent → Gemini Flash Lite routes the request → Cursor SDK hands it off → Cursor Cloud Agents do the work → Results get streamed back to google chat app

@pranaviyer27 I love nyc. Being in tech is awesome but I think I would get sick of it if it I lived in the sf bubble. Staying close to friends in finance, fashion, theatre, law etc… is something I’m grateful for everyday

Lived in both spots. The pull of NYC is undeniable. Have found an incredibly talent dense founder community here also that balances what I missed from SF. Hit me up if looking for similar vibes!