Tag: Artificial Intelligence

Most hackathons reward presentations. Polished slides, rehearsed demos, buzzword-heavy pitches. We're not doing that. The Locus Paygentic Hackathon Series is 4 weeks, 4 tracks, and $4,000 in total prizes. Each week starts fresh on Friday and closes the following Thursday, then the next track kicks off the day after. One week to build something that actually works. Week 1 sign-ups are live on Devfolio. The track: build something using PayWithLocus. If you haven't used it, PayWithLocus is our payments and commerce suite. It lets AI agents handle real transactions, not just simulate them. Your project should use it in a meaningful way. Here's everything you need to know: Team sizes of 1 to 4 people Free to enter Every team gets $15 in build credits and $15 in Locus credits to work with Hos...

I’ve been tracking the companies building primitives specifically for agents rather than humans. The pattern is becoming obvious: every capability a human employee takes for granted is getting rebuilt as an API. Here are some of the companies building for AI agents: AgentMail — agents can have email accounts AgentPhone — agents can have phone numbers Kapso — agents can have WhatsApp numbers Daytona / E2B — agents can have their own computers monid.ai — agents can read social media (X, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook) Browserbase / Browser Use / Hyperbrowser — agents can use web browsers Firecrawl — agents can crawl the web without a browser Mem0 — agents can remember things Kite / Sponge — agents can pay for things Composio — agents can use your SaaS tools Orthogonal — agents c...

I want to be honest about something that happened to me because I think it is more common than people admit. Last month I hit a bug in a service I wrote myself two years ago. Network timeout issue, intermittent, only in prod. The kind of thing I used to be able to sit with for an hour and work through methodically. I opened Claude, described the symptom, got a hypothesis, followed it, hit a dead end, fed that back, got another hypothesis. Forty minutes later I had not found the bug. I had just been following suggestions. At some point I closed the chat and tried to work through it myself. And I realized I had forgotten how to just sit with a problem. My instinct was to describe it to something else and wait for a direction. The internal monologue that used to generate hypotheses, that voic...