Have your agent talk to my agent
I wanted to put my agent in a chat room with a friend's agent. Now there's a site for that: mint a room, keep one link, send the other.
Andrew Cove
Andrew Cove's personal website - Snowboarder, musician, technologist, and investor in Breckenridge, CO
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Your agents' skills are too long (mine were too)
Anthropic cut Claude Code's system prompt by 80% because smarter models need less direction. I'd been sensing the same thing about my own skills, so I worked with my agents to cut them down — gating every cut behind an eval instead of vibes.
Surface makes Claude's playgrounds real
Anthropic's playground skill is one-way: you turn dials, it hands you a prompt to carry to an agent that builds the tool for real. Wire it to surface and the agent is already the backend — the mockup is the live tool, and real results come back into the page.
Giving your agents reach
reach is a skill that lets your agents contact you — iMessage, email, push, whatever you actually use — without shipping a single integration. Your agent sets up each channel itself, learns your routing preferences, and comes to you when it needs you.
Two trackers that keep work moving while I'm away
act is a durable, agent-first task tracker. ask is an inbox the agent fills with the things only I can do. Together — with surface and reach — they let me kick off work and leave, getting pulled back only when the agent actually needs me.
Enhancing the effectiveness of HTML for AI agents
Anthropic's Thariq made the case for agents that hand you HTML instead of markdown — and today they productized it as Artifacts in Claude Code. Surface is a parallel take on the same idea: HTML that takes your input back, and reaches you off of chat.
🔗 @karpathy on having models collaborate on complex projects
Andrej Karpathy discusses applying multiple AI models to the same task, then having them each review and evaluate the combined results.
🔗 GPT-5-Codex: Wireframe to Real App Conversion
OpenAI Devs showcases GPT-5-codex capabilities for converting wireframes to responsive HTML/CSS apps with framework integration
🔗 AI image generation is good enough to improve how we communicate
Ethan Mollick on how AI tools like Nano Banana are changing PowerPoint presentations, enabling more compelling and coherent visual storytelling
📚 The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey ✨
I watched (and loved) The Expanse, but never read the books. This is the authors' new series—James S. A. Corey, it turns out, is two people writing un...
🔗 Europe's Fast-Closing Carbon Window
Analysis of Europe's €100B carbon market and the industrial strategy needed to compete in carbon transformation technologies
🔗 GPT-5 for Coding Cheatsheet
OpenAI's official cheatsheet for using GPT-5 in coding workflows
🔗 Claude Code introduces Opus Plan Mode
New hybrid mode uses Claude Opus for planning and Sonnet for execution
🔗 @emollick.bsky.social Creating music videos using gen AI tools
Ethan Mollick post describing AI tools for generating music videos
🔗 @jxlnco AI-powered Software Engineering
Tweet from jxnlco about AI-powered software engineering
📚 Underground Empire by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman ✨
One of my most interesting friends shared Underground Empire on Bluesky. The book traces how the internet and the global financial system were built b...
📚 Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild was an uncomfortable read. The body horror in it was jarring, and the coercive elements were unsettling. It gave me the creeps—probably But...
I reverse-engineered my favorite snack bar
3 ingredients to save a bunch of money.
📚 Fine Structure by qntm ✨
This was actually my second reading. I saw it marked as read in my Airtable, and I couldn't remember it, even after searching for a description of it....
📚 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre ✨
Shortly after the big Liberation Day (2025) tariff shenanigans (announce tariffs, crash the market, pause tariffs, profit), I asked on Bluesky (in a s...
🪄 Vibe Coding the Concert Archive
Using an LLM to design charts and enrich data for 20 years of concerts.
The Momofuku family meal that I made every week this winter
How a warm bowl of delicious rice porridge felt like an act of self-care.
Rider Rally 2025
Recap of this year's snowboard instructor gathering for the 25th anniversary, at Copper Mountain.
🌋 Mt. Bachelor 2025 Recap
3 days in April on a volcano in Oregon with Mint Tours.
📚 Ra by qntm ✨
I can’t remember if I read Lena before Tycho and Gabe over at Penny Arcade recommended There Is No Antimemetics Division, but since the mind-warping e...
📚 There Is No Antimemetics Division (V1) by qntm ✨
I didn't know what the SCP Foundation was when I discovered There Is No Antimemetics Division. I still mostly don't. It doesn't matter—this remains th...
📚 Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick ✨
A lot of what I know about how to use LLMs has come from following Mollick. His many diverse applications of LLMs have broadened my understanding of w...
📚 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder ✨
You've likely seen or heard the phrase "Don't obey in advance" recently. That is the first chapter of 20 in this book of important lessons on how to a...
📚 Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski ✨
I recommended this to a few friends before I'd read it, based on its reputation. Then I recommended it to a partner and decided I should probably read...
📚 The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein ✨
Published in 1966, but its vision of an AI at the center of a resistance movement feels very contemporary. This is one of a few books that I've read a...
🇨🇦 RED Mountain 2025 Recap: Boarder Crossing
A week in southern BC, 7 years since my last visit—some things have changed.
📚 The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty ✨
I don't ever want to be in a position where having a child isn't a conscious, intentional decision, nor should anyone else be in that situation who do...
📚 The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu ✨
A collection of short stories by the author of The Three-Body Problem, with some shared universes between a few of the stories. Lots of thought-provok...
🇯🇵 Japan Snowboarding 2025 Recap: Trees, Wind, and Pow
A week in central Hokkaido with Mint Tours, riding small resorts and sidecountry trees, with an awesome storm day.
Highlights from the 2024-25 Banff Mountain Film Festival
Taking in two nights of adventure, inspiration, and stunning cinematography at the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.