Your AI Is Now An Agent
And other tools to make you faster, smarter, or maybe just a little more in control.
The distinction between a tool and a teammate just vanished. We've moved past AI co-pilots and straight into the era of the autonomous agent.
Your AI Coding Assistant Is Now An Agent
GPT-5-Codex is no longer just a co-pilot; it's a developer that works independently.
OpenAI's GPT-5-Codex is here, and it’s not just another coding assistant. It's an agentic developer, capable of tackling entire tasks independently, whether in your terminal or IDE. It represents a shift from a co-pilot that helps you fly to an autopilot that just needs a destination.
The real story isn't about writing code faster; it's about the changing role of the developer. When an AI can take a high-level goal and execute it, the human's job moves from implementation to architecture and strategy. We are becoming editors and directors, and the most valuable skill is no longer writing perfect code, but having impeccable taste and judgement.
Every technical leader needs to pay attention. This changes how we build teams, estimate timelines, and think about technical debt. The future of development looks less like a large team of junior coders and more like a small group of senior architects directing a team of tireless AI agents.
AI Is Your New Intern
A wave of new tools are basically AI interns for very specific, annoying jobs.
RizzCalc: The finance bro for your spreadsheets
This turns financial modeling in Google Sheets into a conversation, using natural language to build complex models. It’s less about knowing formulas and more about asking the right questions.
HeyHelp: The executive assistant living in your Gmail
It promises to save you five hours a week by drafting replies and managing your inbox. The real power is its native integration, making AI feel like a feature, not a separate app.
Munch Studio: Your social media video editor
It repurposes long-form videos into clips for TikTok and Instagram, automating a soul-crushing task for creators. This levels the playing field, giving anyone a content team.
Build Faster, Own Your Stack
While AI automates tasks, another trend is emerging: tools that give you more speed and control over your own infrastructure.
Endform: The nitrous boost for your Playwright tests
It claims a 10-20x speedup for end-to-end tests through massive parallelisation. This isn’t just about raw speed; it's about unblocking CI/CD pipelines so you can ship faster.
Your Next Store: The anti-Shopify for Stripe fans
This is a lean, serverless e-commerce platform built directly on Stripe and Next.js. It’s a bet against bloated plugin ecosystems in favour of pure performance.
Kan.bn: The Trello you can host yourself
This open-source Kanban board is for anyone tired of SaaS subscriptions and worried about data privacy. It’s a simple trade: more control for a little more setup.
Quick hits
Mureka Agent Studio: The ghostwriter for your next hit song
Describe a mood or even a meme, and this AI generates a complete, surprisingly polished song with vocals and multi-track stems.
Bazaar V3: The animator for your app screenshots
Feed it static UI screenshots and a prompt, and it generates a slick motion-graphic demo video, killing a tedious marketing task.
Crates: The digital record shelf for your scattered music
It unifies your music from Spotify, Bandcamp, and local files into one place, focusing on human curation over algorithmic playlists.
My takeaway
The line between tool and teammate is officially gone.
We're seeing AI evolve from a passive assistant that suggests things into an active agent that completes entire tasks. From writing code to managing an inbox or creating a financial model, these aren't just features anymore. They are autonomous workers embedded in our software.
This forces us to move up a level of abstraction, becoming directors instead of doers. The most valuable skill is no longer execution, but taste, strategy, and the ability to ask the right questions. It's a fundamental shift in what it means to be a creator.
How do you manage a team that includes both humans and autonomous AI agents?
Drop me a reply. Till next time, this is Louis, and you are reading Louis.log().