Your AI Is a Mirror of How You Think

Hello, and happy Sunday. This week paid subscribers got Katie Parrott’s prompt for making Codex interview her before it builds anything, so her setup fits how she works, and two workflows from Lee Knowlton: orchestrating a team of agents by voice while he does the dishes, and turning three years of his daily runs into an interactive chart in one shot. And Mike Taylor went hunting for the best AI agent builder in enterprise software and found it buried inside Microsoft’s Copilot. Upgrade to get all of it.—Kate Lee

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🔏 “The Best AI Agent Builder Is Trapped Inside Microsoft” by Mike Taylor/Also True for Humans: Mike makes the case that Microsoft’s Copilot Studio is the best agent builder available, because it lets agents call other agents—so you can get several agents working together on a task without building the setup yourself. The catch is finding it, under the onboarding, the 404s, and the 80-odd things Microsoft calls Copilot. Read this to find Copilot Studio and put it to work if your company already runs on Microsoft tools.

🔏 “A Codex of One’s Own” by Katie Parrott/Context Window: Every’s head of operations Arielle Shipper and head of consulting Natalia Quintero compared their Codex setups and found them almost nothing alike—one was built on minimal process, the other on detailed planning and supervision. Katie had Codex interview her before building anything, asking about her recurring work, active projects, and which decisions she wanted to keep making herself. Also inside: a Signal on Demis Hassabis stepping back as CEO of Google DeepMind and Meta’s Muse Code launch, plus the models the team is driving this week.

🔏 “Mini-Vibe Check: ChatGPT Voice Mode” by Laura Entis/Context Window: The team spent a week with GPT-Live—fixing bugs, drafting outlines, booking flights, and running agents while cooking. Engineer Lee Knowlton read a technical text aloud while voice mode answered questions against his live codebase. COO Brandon Gell found that mobile voice mode couldn’t reach past the current chat to the work on his computer. The verdict: “both not quite there yet and obviously the future.” Also inside: an AI & I with Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel, who thinks the next big AI product will be social. 🎧 🖥 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, watch on X or YouTube, or read the transcript.

“Designing With AI? Make a Jig.” by Jack Cheng: Borrowing a term from woodworking—a jig is a tool that makes it easier to build something else—Jack had his coding agent build on-page control panels to tune the AI-generated code behind our interactive OpenAI piece, “Before the Deluge.” Prompting was too coarse for fine adjustments; one jig gave him 27 sliders to shape a single step of the story. Read this for how the jig is changing AI-assisted design, plus a prompt to build your own.