Posts, notes, and things worth sharing.

Introducing the NerdPress Guided Agent Connector, a new service from NerdPress that connects your AI agent to your WordPress site with our guidance built in. I wrote about it on our blog.

Upgraded to OSes 27 yesterday. Siri AI is actually helpful! I thought I’d never see the day. To get the new Siri app on macOS Golden Gate I did need to restart, just FYI. Looks like a solid update so far.

Maggie’s August update is worth reading (warning: AI is mentioned, if you’re not into that sort of thing.)

Unlocked.

Last week was a big week for agents. I wrote about the agentweb on Tuesday. To compete with Anthropic’s managed agents service (which I’ve used a fair amount at this point and it is quite good) OpenAI released Workspace agents to a few customer segments, Google released enterprise agent platform, and Microsoft scrambled to release a preview of hosted agents and says Copilot is now in “agent mode”. There will now be an explosion in the number of agents.

I don’t like to speak in absolutes. But all business software must be agent-ready as soon as possible.

If you are excited about and enjoy using LLMs, please take time to read contrarian views. Seek out those that have solid reasons for avoiding their use and listen to them. Read the data about the privacy, rights, energy, and natural resource issues that these tools have created or exacerbated. Be open minded about these topics and not singularly focused on the mind-blowing results you’re seeing, your own excitement, or the profit you may be able to extract from them. Try to always have a balanced and principled view.

I wrote this for me.

Apple should acquire Bitrig before someone else does. Still more work to be done there to make creating apps approachable for “anyone”… but Bitrig is remarkably fast at creating apps for Apple OSes. The more complex parts of the process are still on the Apple-side of things and could/should be streamlined dramatically.