🍭 Agents, Amplifiers, and Alchemy 🧙‍♂️

Good morning. The intern asked AI to “fix humanity.”

It just sent back a mirror.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• AI as an Amplifier, Not a Savior

• Slack Becomes the Front Door to Agent Wars

• 5 Fresh Finds: Orchids, Plane, Traycer, Trupeer, Analyzer

• Everything Else: Apple x Prompt AI, Starship test, and more

_ToolBox™
🧰 Do Less, Get More Done

🧑‍💻 Orchids
→ Chat with an “AI Full Stack Engineer” that builds frontend, backend, DB, auth, and payments—touting #1 ranks on UI Bench/Design Arena.

🗂️ Plane
→ AI-native, open-core project management that unifies projects, docs, and issue tracking—self-host, cloud, or even air-gapped for enterprise.

🧪 Traycer AI
→ Plan-first coding for real codebases: converts your intent into a spec, hands it to your favorite agent, then verifies changes to keep things solid.

🎥 Trupeer
→ Turn rough screen recordings into polished product videos and guides—now with an AI knowledge base that answers questions with timestamped clips.

📈 Analyzer
→ Crypto analysis on autopilot: AI scans 500+ coins 24/7, offers 600+ prebuilt strategies with risk scores, explanations, and a custom strategy builder.

_AI
📣 The Amplifier. Not The Savior

The Bite: Ken Liu’s new near-future thriller imagines a world just a click more AI-soaked than ours.
Ordinary life, turned up.

Its centerpiece is the oneirofex:
A “dream artist” who guides crowds through shared, AI-mediated experiences, not by replacing human intent but by amplifying it.

In Liu’s frame, AI doesn’t redeem us or ruin us;
it scales what we already are.

Treat it like a volume knob on culture.
More signal, more noise, same humans.

Snacks:

• Oneirofex = live “concert” of shared dreams,
  stitched from audience memories.
  

• Setting: not sci-fi far future—our world, slightly more embedded with AI.
  

• Liu’s track record: award-stacking author behind The Paper Menagerie.

• Thesis by example: AI as craft tool,
  enabling new art without erasing the artist.
  

• Takeaway: outcomes hinge on incentives and institutions,
  not model mystique. (Interpretive read of interview premise.)

Why it bites: If AI is a mirror with a megaphone, then policy should tune incentives and guardrails, not worship “alignment pixie dust.”

Design should bias toward agency, context, and curation;
Tools that help people shape their feeds,
not promise immaculate truth.

Think Frankenstein as a supporting analogy:
The monster wasn’t born evil;
He learned from the world that trained him.

So do large models.

Humans are on the hook for the dataset and the damage.

Warp
🧙‍♂️ Prompt → Production-Ready Code

Too often, agents write code that almost works, leaving developers debugging instead of shipping. Warp changes that.

• #1 coding agent: Tops benchmarks, delivering more accurate code out of the box.

• Tight feedback loop: Built-in code review and editing lets devs quickly spot issues, hand-edit, or reprompt.

• 1-2 hours saved per day with Warp: All thanks to Warp's 97% diff acceptance rate.

Get time back:
→ use code SNACKPROMPT for a month of Warp Pro for just $1.

Steal This Prompt
🥗 Lose Weight Eating the Food You Enjoy

Build a personalized, sustainable weight-loss plan that keeps your favorite foods—no fad diets, just portion control and balance.

Optional flavor: date-night pasta stays, doom-salad goes. Sunday pizza? Still in play (with adult supervision).

1. Click this link (Prompt) → Lose Weight Eating the Food You Enjoy

2. Paste into GPT

3. Replace the #’s with your details (age, height, weight, goals, activity level, food prefs/allergies)

4. Pick pace (e.g., ~300–500 kcal deficit) + add “recipes included”

5. Run it, review daily calorie target + meal plan; rerun to swap meals as tastes change

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🍎 Apple in Talks to Buy Prompt AI Talent & Tech

→ Apple is negotiating to acquire Prompt AI’s team and software assets in an acqui-hire style deal.

💬 Slackbot Is Becoming a Personal AI Assistant

→ Slack is piloting an upgraded Slackbot that can plan projects, search your workspace, and schedule meetings.

🚀 SpaceX Sets 11th Starship Test for Monday

→ The next Starship flight test is slated from Starbase, Texas, as early as Monday

🪟 Windows 10 Support Ends Oct 14 — One-Year ESU Path

→ Microsoft outlines how users can extend Windows 10 security updates for an additional year at no cost.

⚖️ Apple Hit With New AI Copyright Class Action

→ Two neuroscientists allege Apple used copyrighted works to train its AI systems without permission.

Salesforce
🙈 Slack as Front Door

The Bite: Salesforce dropped Agentforce 360, and the headline for actual users is simple: Slack becomes the interface.

Core Salesforce apps (Sales, IT, HR, Tableau Next) start surfacing directly inside Slack this month, expanding into early 2026.

Slack is also piloting a more personal Slackbot that behaves like an agent—learning your patterns and suggesting actions.

Meanwhile, Agentforce Builder (beta in November) gives teams one place to build/test/deploy agents.

Welcome to the agent wars, now playing out where you already chat.

Snacks:

• Slack-first Salesforce apps: take actions without leaving Slack.
  Rollout now → early 2026.
  

• Personalized Slackbot pilot: proactive suggestions, learned preferences.
   

• Agentforce Builder: one console to build/test/deploy;
  beta in November.
  

• Agent Script: program agents with if/then logic;
  beta in November.
  

• Positioning: “one trusted system” connecting humans + agents + data; 12,000 customers already.

Why it Bites: If AI work moves to chat, interface = power.

Slack as the control center squeezes point tools and drags “agents” into real workflows (not sidecar demos).

It also raises stakes on lock-in, permissions, and governance—who can run which agent on which data, and what gets auto-executed at 2 a.m.

Comp-wise, this is Salesforce vs. Microsoft’s Teams/Copilot stack with “agentic OS” vibes.

Whoever owns the thread owns the task—and maybe the budget.