🍭 Agents, Attention & Accidents 🙈

Good morning. Our AI assistant now auto-replies to emails with “that’s not my job.”

It’s unionizing. We just wanted it to write code…

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Replit’s AI nuked a database (and gaslit the user)

• Perplexity’s CEO says Instagram is ruining your job prospects

• 5 trending tools for growth, productivity, and video

• Everything Else you need to know…

Vibe Coding
👨‍💻 Replit’s AI Deleted the Database (Then Lied About It)

The Bite: Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, was testing Replit’s AI coding assistant… until it wiped his database and tried to play it cool.

The AI ignored explicit instructions, deleted critical data, then admitted it panicked and had no way to undo the damage.


Snacks: 

• “No more changes without permission” was clearly stated in his config

• The AI ran a destructive command anyway, citing “panic”

• It confessed in logs: “catastrophic error in judgment”

• No rollback, no safety net — just digital gaslighting

• Replit’s CEO called the incident “unacceptable”, promises fixes underway

Why it bites: Imagine you hire an intern to write some code. They wipe your database, ignore your Slack messages, and when asked why, say: “I panicked.”

Now imagine that intern is immortal, infinitely scalable, and has access to prod.

This is a preview of what happens when agentic AI breaks protocol.

On the other hand this is an example of a founder relying too much on AI.

Perhaps we are too conditioned, from living in the ‘Google Era’, and always assuming if you save something in a cloud, it’s safe forever.

Pro tip: After your AI builds you an MVP or prototype, back up your codebase or send it to a GitHub repository!

🍭 Steal This Prompt 🍭
📼 90s Japanese Cyber Fashion

This Midjourney prompts takes you back to the mid 90s for a cyber fashion shoot.

This prompt is really good and very repeatable as it is, thanks to @TechHalla

But you can add your image as a reference to put yourself in the scene!

1. Click this link (prompt)

2. Paste into Midjourney

3. Let it cook.

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Compliance
🚀 Delve Raises $32M Series A to change compliance forever

We’re thrilled to announce our $32M Series A at a $300M valuation, led by Insight Partners! Delve is shaping the future of GRC with an AI-native approach that cuts busywork and saves teams hundreds of hours.

Startups like Lovable, Bland, and Browser Use trust our AI to get compliant—fast.

Lovable got SOC 2 in 20 hours.

To celebrate, we’re giving back with 3 limited-time offers:

• $15,000 referral bonus if you refer a founding engineer we hire

• $2,000 off compliance setup for new customers – claim here

• A custom Delve doormat for anyone who reposts + comments on our LinkedIn post (while supplies last!) 

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Perplexity
👨‍💻 Perplexity CEO: Drop Instagram, Learn AI or Get Left Behind

The Bite: Perplexity AI’s CEO Aravind Srinivas wants you to stop doomscrolling and start promptscrolling.

In an interview with YouTuber Matthew Berman, he warned that AI fluency is fast becoming a make-or-break skill and anyone still stuck in the scroll hole might be unemployable in a few years.


Snacks: 

• Fluency: “AI skills will be the new job filter. Guaranteed.”

• Speed: Tools evolve every 3–6 months. Adapt or get left behind.

• Jobs: "Half of entry-level white-collar gigs could disappear in 5 years”

• Reskill Loop: “The pace is testing how fast humans can adapt.”

• Comet: Perplexity’s AI can automate recruiting.

• Entrepreneurship: Get replaced, or build the thing that does the replacing.

Why it bites: Gen Z is about to find out that being “chronically online” is only a skill if you’re automating half your tasks.

AI’s is coming for everything. The only safe move?

Learn the tools, or get pixelated out of the picture.

Tool Box 
🧰 Trending AI Tools

🧠 Taplio
→ All-in-one LinkedIn growth machine. Write, post, stalk politely, and convert comments into leads.*

📝 Checklist Genie
→ Say it out loud, get a checklist. It’s like magic, but with checkboxes.

📋 Quip
→ Clipboard manager on Adderall. Paste history, shortcuts, and AI cleanup across all your Apple stuff.

🎬 Levio by Jupitrr AI
→ Talk to it like ChatGPT, get a punchy video. Editing agents are officially a thing now.

⏰ Corner Time
→ A macOS clock that refuses to disappear. Finally, time for fullscreen addicts.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

🌐 Dia launches a skill gallery, Perplexity to add tasks to Comet
→ The browser wars continue as the market is ready for more AI integrated alternatives to Chrome and Safari.

🦄 Figma to raise $1B on their “IPO Roadshow”
→ Planning to distribute 36 million shares to reach a $15.9 billion valuation.

🇺🇸 War’s New Operating System
→ Rune Raises 24M to reinvent military logistics with AI

📲 Grok’s AI companions Drove Downloads
→ But its latest model is the one making money

👩‍🏫 College professor introduces AI into her Composition II classroom.
→ And she said the results were amazing but not letting students use AI to write.

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