AI Native Builder Weekly

Welcome to this week’s edition of AI-Native Builder Weekly.

Build With Me Live

I’m excited to announce 3 live building opportunities with me for people who want a better system for their work with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex:

Claude Code for Beginners: 2 Day Launchpad – 23-24 October (starts this Friday)

Learn the fundamentals and a system for building with Claude Code. You'll build your own project in a hands-on, supportive environment. No coding experience needed.
Use code CLAUDE100 to save $100 off the Core package and CLAUDE200 to save $200 off the Ultra package.

The Builder Blueprint – 30 October

You’ll brainstorm, plan and build a project or feature from scratch using my structured process in Claude Code or Codex. Bring an idea and leave with a deployed MVP.
Use code BUILD50 to save $50 off the Workshop ticket and VIP100 to save $100 off the VIP ticket.

The Skill Lab – 7 November

Learn what Agent Skills are build your first Skills end to end, starting from three workflows in your own job that Skills can help with.
Use code BUILD50 to save $50 off the Workshop ticket and VIP100 to save $100 off the VIP ticket.

All sessions are live with me and include Q+A and personalized help during the session. I hope to see you there. Just reply to this email with any questions.

Useful AI tools and resources

What I’m reading, watching, and listening to

Tyler Cowen and Dwarkesh Patel Predict the Future: I enjoyed this interview way more than I thought I would. Tyler Cowen is a fantastic interviewer and this is a wonderful interview with Dwarkesh Patel on where AI might be headed. For those new to Dwarkesh, he is one of the most important voices in the artificial intelligence world: he’s deeply embedded in San Francisco’s tech community and he’s interviewed every AI executive in depth (e.g Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella etc).

Notable launches this week (10/18)

Claude Code:

Claude Code Desktop App 2.0: New features include saved environments, nested sessions that report back to the main thread, /btw side questions, a live to-do list and a status-aware sidebar.
Opus 5.5 fast mode is out of research preview: The same Opus 5.5, up to 2.5x faster, at $8 / $40 per million input / output tokens.
Idle compaction in Claude Code: Long idle sessions are now compacted right before the prompt cache expires (~1 hour), so when you come back Claude only reprocesses the summary instead of the whole conversation, which saves usage.
Faster responses across Claude: Claude Code now compresses the conversation it sends every turn, and cloud sessions start up as soon as you start typing, so Claude starts responding sooner.

OpenAI:

GPT-6 Astra Pro gets parallel agents: Astra Pro in ChatGPT now responds faster, makes better use of plugins and tools, and can split a task across multiple agents working in parallel. You can follow each agent’s progress and open completed tasks to review their work.
500K default context for GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex: Up from 272K (an ~80% increase) when you use Sol through Codex and Work, which means fewer compactions on long tasks.
Browser use in ChatGPT on the web: Full action-taking browser use in Work mode, plus the context of your open Chrome tabs in regular ChatGPT.
GPT-Live-1.1 voices in ChatGPT, Codex and dots: Better accents, less “checking...”, and new voices in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean and Japanese.
Sites is generally available for Enterprise: Build team apps with databases and authentication, now with US and EU data residency for new Sites in eligible workspaces.

GrokBot:

The X Subscription: One plan now covers Grok, GrokBot, Cursor and X Premium. Plans start at $8/month, and the $30/month Premium tier includes the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+ (previously $90/month combined).
GrokBot is much faster: Computer tasks finish 3x sooner on average, and replies to everything else arrive in less than half the time. It also has a refreshed look, faster and more reliable voice calls, and can now read your X Chat messages.
Grok Voice 3.0 is live in GrokBot: The new speech-to-speech model responds in under a second and debuts at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Speech Index.
New connectors and an open plugin marketplace: GrokBot now connects to Robinhood, Coinbase, Trello, PostHog, beehiiv, eToro and more, and teams can submit their own connectors to the marketplace.
Email plus aliases: Your bot can send and receive email from dedicated aliases, and you can set up routines that only trigger for mail sent to a specific alias.

That’s it for this week’s edition. Let me know what you found most useful!

Happy building,

Avthar

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