Google apps in the terminal

Hey I’m Ben. I build stuff with agents, even though I’m not technical. Here’s all the stuff I’m reading and tinkering with. If you want to start building or level up your ‘vibe-coding’ skills, join our community.

Hey folks,

omg…1000+ of you signed up for the free ‘become a builder’ workshop i’m hosting at 3pm UK (7am PT). So I’m doing it as a YouTube Live stream. Last chance if you want to join - it’ll be recorded if you can’t make it.

Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite - A fast model with better than Haiku 4.5 performance on benchmarks. But this bump in performance comes with a price increase ($0.10/$0.40 to $0.25/$1.50). At this price point, open-source models like Minimax M2.5 make a lot of sense for developers. They would give a much stronger performance (although at the cost of Flash Lite’s insane speed).

OpenAI also updated its default model in ChatGPT to GPT-5.3-Instant. A lot of improvement in the model is around its behaviour. Lesser halunciation, refusals & disclaimers plus better web search usage and writing. Remember, this is the model most people use when they go to ChatGPT. Also, Codex is now on Windows as well.

Google Workspace released a CLI for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. It’s really well built with a focus on agents. One of the team members working on it also wrote a blog on rewriting your CLI for agents.

The Information reports that OpenAI is building an internal alternative to GitHub. OpenAI’s browser Atlas came 11 months after The Information reported on it first. So expect this to take some time. It is also talking with The Trade Desk to put ads in ChatGPT and maybe planning an IPO as it hires a law firm, and Jensen Huang kinda leaked it. OpenAI’s ARR is now about $25B, only a little bit ahead of Anthropic’s $19B.

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Glaze by Raycast - Create real desktop apps with features like file access, keyboard shortcuts and more. In private beta now.
Glide lets you create apps from a spreadsheet. It’s soon moving to AI from its no-code roots.
Paperclip - Hire AI employees, set goals, and your business runs itself. (github)
ASC11 - ASCII art editor to animate images, videos and live cams. Preview with HTML and export to JS.
Modem - Your dev team’s auto-triage PM.
Nen - All the infra you need to build reliable computer use agents.
moss - Notes app that organises your work and connects your thoughts.
Exa Deep - Agents that run in a loop to gather all the information for your search.
Defuddle - Get the main content of a page in Markdown. Just add deffuddle.md at the beginning of the URL. Use it via curl, Skills or the CLI.
Tools that let you run multiple parallel agents for coding:
- Polyscope - Dev environment for running parallel agents with built-in preview browser and more.
- Moment - A collaborative workspace to run your entire business out of a Markdown file with code at the centre of it. (read more)
- Superset - Turbocharged terminal that allows you to run many CLI coding agents.
Design with AI tools:
- Refero MCP - Connect your agent to a curated library of real product interfaces and user flows.
- Kodo - Fully editable designs, generated by chatting.
- /playground - A design canvas for your code.