the headlines
Cursor released a new automations tool
Replit teases something spicy
OpenAI releases their latest model (review down below)
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Cursor releases “Automations” feature
Last night, I recieved an email titled “Introducing Cursor Automations” and being the avid Cursor fan that I am my heart skipped a beat.
Automations allow users to setup agents that work autonomously on a task once triggered (whether it is through a Slack message, timer or GitHub repo push)
The cursor team said this about Automations:
We’ve found Automations to be particularly useful in these scenarios:
Review and monitoring: Automations can catch and fix everything from style nits and inconsistencies to security vulnerabilities and performance regressions.
Chores: Automations are great for everyday tasks and knowledge work like triaging bug reports, summarizing code changes, and adding test coverage.
Claude code users… is this enough to make you want to switch to Cursor? 👀
Replit’s CEO cannot get enough praise
The founder of Y Combinator, Paul Graham, has been praising Amjad Masad left, right and center this weekend in two viral tweets.
The first tweet sent shockwaves around AI spaces, leaving users to speculate what Replit might be cooking up (vibe coding hardware? Replit’s own model? drag and drop visual editing?).
Paul Graham then followed up the second tweet by proclaiming that:
“It's time for Amjad to go by a single name like Elon and Beyonce.”
Replit had recently reported hitting $400m ARR which (if true) means they have overtaken there self-proclaimed rival Lovable which seems to have fallen behind in the recent months as it is now seen only as a place to build prototypes and not full stack apps.
GPT 5.4 is out!
OpenAI decided to stealthly drop GPT-5.4 at midnight.
GPT-5.4 excels at three things when compared to other SOTA models (inlcuding other OAI models).
1. Computer use. GPT-5.4 has been given MAJOR upgrades in computer use, scoring an impressive 75% in OS-World (GPT-5.2 scored 47.3%) and after having used it for a few cron job, I can definitely say that GPT-5.4 is (as of now) my go-to model for computer usage.
2. Tool usage. OpenAI has implemented a new feature which they call “Tool Search”. This feature involves giving the model a predefined list of tools, which they instantly have access to if needed. This reduces latency, as the model does not have to spend time searching for a tool. This also reduces cost, as less tokens are expended in searching.
3. Steerability. If there was one standout feature for GPT-5.4, it’s new steerability feature would definitely be it. It is availble for the thinking versions of GPT-5.4 where a user can inject a prompt midway through the agents thinking, which the agent subsequently incorporates into it’s context and answer. So, instead of having to stop the agent from running and resubmit the prompt, or having to wait till the agent is done before asking it the part you left out, you can now quickly and seamlessly add it into the agent chain-of-thought.
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