It's issue #319 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor. The deal will help to bolster the company's efforts to compete with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI, which also offer popular coding tools. Read all about it here.
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Building an LLM safe design system
Most of the UI code shipped at Polar today is written with an LLM in the loop. That is great for speed. It is harder on consistency, unless your design system is built for it.
Creative Mornings founder on building communities that run on trust
When Tina Roth Eisenberg moved to New York in 1999 as a new designer, she kept asking herself the same question: where are my people? Eighteen years ago, she answered it by starting Creative Mornings.
Policy on the AI Exponential by Dario Amodei
AI’s scaling laws, which predict an exponential increase in general cognitive capabilities with increasing computing power, now have over a decade of empirical evidence behind them.
Every interviewed an AI Version of GitHub’s COO
Here’s what their AI simulated interview taught them about getting the most out of a conversation.
Your product has a new user. It’s not human.
Should MCP be in your ICP? It will keep you relevant. It might also make you replaceable.
How 5 companies are centering accessibility and social equity
These World Changing Ideas honorees are focused on making the world more accessible for everyone.
✨ Product find of the week
Qursor - Point and copy UI context for AI coding
Qursor is the Chrome extension that lets you turns UI annotations into structured, code-aware context your agent can actually use. You point to the exact element and send the exact classes, selectors, and context needed.
📰 In other news
Has AI has demolished the market for self-help books?
Visa announced a ‘strategic partnership’ with OpenAI to launch ‘agentic commerce’
Special mentions this week
Apple 2027 rumors: AirPods with cameras for AI and the second folding iPhone
Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy
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