The rumors were strong that February would have a number of model releases and OpenAI and Anthropic both did not disappoint with the release of Opus-4.6 as well as Codex-5.3.
Engineering leaders as well as founders/CEO of organisation should in my humble opinion read the subtext carefully of Greg Brockman's tweet as well as others such as Aaron Levie of Box, Addy Osmani of Google Deepmind on how software engineering processes need to adapt to take advantage of the increasing capabilities of models particularly coding models and 'compound' their engineering efforts
Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe
The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 1st Feb 2026 to Saturday 7th Feb 2026
1 | via Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!
1. Do more in parallel
Spin up 3–5 git worktrees at once, each running its own Claude session in parallel. It's the single biggest productivity unlock, and the top tip from the team. Personally, I use multiple git checkouts, but most of the Claude Code team prefers worktrees --  |
2 | Chamath Palihapitiya Opens AI Software Factory to Public Use The venture capitalist's company 8090 launched the tool 18 months ago to modernize outdated enterprise software. Software Factory blends human teams with AI agents for zero-drift code that auto-updates docs, maps old codebases, and automates patterns via Assembly Lines. One early user swapped a $15 million SaaS vendor for a cheaper in-house option, easing vendor lock-in and maintenance costs.
18 months ago, I started 8090 with the goal of replacing/rewriting all the legacy software in the world with modern, useful alternatives.
We are making so much progress with many Enterprise customers that starting tomorrow, we will release our “Software Factory” into the wild |
3 | Google just launched Project Genie to Ultra subscribers two days ago. 48 hours later, Alibaba matched it with zero licensing fees. Genie 3 runs at 24fps, 720p, for “a few minutes.” LingBot-World runs at 16fps, 480-720p, for 10 minutes. Genie 3 requires a $250/month Google AI Ultra subscription. LingBot-World costs zero dollars and gives you the weights. Robbyant (Ant Group’s robotics division) built LingBot-World on top of Alibaba’s Wan2.2 video model, Three days from announcement to full open-source release. Weights, code, technical paper, everything. GitHub - Robbyant/lingbot-world: Advancing Open-source World ModelsAdvancing Open-source World Models. Contribute to Robbyant/lingbot-world development by creating an account on GitHub.  |
FWIW, I'm trying out tasklet.ai albeit in a deliberate and slow manner
Not endorsing it at this point in time but sharing incase others who might be interested are willing to kick its tires. Do read the X handles of the founder and various team members and get a sense of its capabilities as well as restrictions vis-a-vis openclaw
Think of it as as a form of openclaw (though they have their own agent harness) with lots of security layers built by an ex-Firebase (acquired by Google) team with decent VC funding
https://x.com/TaskletAI
https://x.com/startupandrew
https://x.com/jonnydimond
https://x.com/parker_chun_
---
Hi! I'm Michael Lehenbauer, engineer #2 at Firebase. Among other things, I invented Firebase Database security rules (I'm sorry!). Lately I've been working with Andrew Lee (co-founder of Firebase) and a handful of other Firebase teammates on Tasklet.
Tasklet makes it trivially easy to automate your business processes with autonomous AI agents that can talk to your email, calendar, bug tracker, and basically everything. I also use it to run my personal life (plan hikes, find local events / activities to attend, find shopping deals, etc. ).
Similar to Firebase we're trying to empower users with powerful capabilities behind a ruthlessly simple UX. Would love for folks to give it a try and be brutally honest in your feedback.
——
2 | via Simon Willinson OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I've had a few days of preview access - it's a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and Automations for running scheduled tasks.
Introducing the Codex app—a powerful command center for building with agents.
Now available on macOS. 
openai.com
Codex | AI Coding Partner from OpenAIThe best way to build with agents. Codex accelerates real engineering work, from planning and building features to refactors, reviews, and releases—working seamlessly across your tools. |
1 | Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6, its upgraded smartest model featuring improved planning, longer agentic task sustainment, reliable operation in massive codebases, self-error detection Claude Opus 4.6 targets developers and knowledge workers with top scores in agentic coding (65.4% on Terminal-Bench 2.0), software engineering (80.8% on SWE-bench), and tool use (91.9% on TAU-bench), often beating rivals like Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2. New features include a beta 1 million token context window, agent teams for parallel work in Claude Code, and integrations with Excel and PowerPoint for tougher office tasks. Staff like Boris Cherny praise its intelligence and endurance, with early testers hailing it as a 'true collaborator' already transforming video production and code analysis. |
Introducing Kilo Claw — hosted OpenClaw, powered by Kilo.
Kilo Claw gives you a fully managed OpenClaw instance in under 60 seconds.
No SSH. No Docker. No yaml. Just click and go.
Every chat platform pre-configured and ready.
It runs on the same Kilo Gateway already serving 1.4M+ developers with 500+ AI models.
Same account. Same credits. Same transparent pricing with zero markup on AI tokens.
If you use Kilo Code, you're already set up. We're rolling out to early adopters first.
Join the waitlist → https://kilo.ai/kiloclaw
Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as the various content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others who you think may find this content/community useful to them
The cover image of this newsletter via generated via the Google Nano Banana Pro model within the Freepik tool via the following prompt
A sprawling cyberpunk-dieselpunk cityscape at twilight, with neon signs flickering over grimy streets. Airships hover above, and industrial smokestacks belch black clouds.
The rumors were strong that February would have a number of model releases and OpenAI and Anthropic both did not disappoint with the release of Opus-4.6 as well as Codex-5.3.
Engineering leaders as well as founders/CEO of organisation should in my humble opinion read the subtext carefully of Greg Brockman's tweet as well as others such as Aaron Levie of Box, Addy Osmani of Google Deepmind on how software engineering processes need to adapt to take advantage of the increasing capabilities of models particularly coding models and 'compound' their engineering efforts
Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe
The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 1st Feb 2026 to Saturday 7th Feb 2026
1 | via Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!
1. Do more in parallel
Spin up 3–5 git worktrees at once, each running its own Claude session in parallel. It's the single biggest productivity unlock, and the top tip from the team. Personally, I use multiple git checkouts, but most of the Claude Code team prefers worktrees -- |
2 | Chamath Palihapitiya Opens AI Software Factory to Public Use The venture capitalist's company 8090 launched the tool 18 months ago to modernize outdated enterprise software. Software Factory blends human teams with AI agents for zero-drift code that auto-updates docs, maps old codebases, and automates patterns via Assembly Lines. One early user swapped a $15 million SaaS vendor for a cheaper in-house option, easing vendor lock-in and maintenance costs.
18 months ago, I started 8090 with the goal of replacing/rewriting all the legacy software in the world with modern, useful alternatives.
We are making so much progress with many Enterprise customers that starting tomorrow, we will release our “Software Factory” into the wild |
3 | Google just launched Project Genie to Ultra subscribers two days ago. 48 hours later, Alibaba matched it with zero licensing fees. Genie 3 runs at 24fps, 720p, for “a few minutes.” LingBot-World runs at 16fps, 480-720p, for 10 minutes. Genie 3 requires a $250/month Google AI Ultra subscription. LingBot-World costs zero dollars and gives you the weights. Robbyant (Ant Group’s robotics division) built LingBot-World on top of Alibaba’s Wan2.2 video model, Three days from announcement to full open-source release. Weights, code, technical paper, everything. GitHub - Robbyant/lingbot-world: Advancing Open-source World ModelsAdvancing Open-source World Models. Contribute to Robbyant/lingbot-world development by creating an account on GitHub. |
FWIW, I'm trying out tasklet.ai albeit in a deliberate and slow manner
Not endorsing it at this point in time but sharing incase others who might be interested are willing to kick its tires. Do read the X handles of the founder and various team members and get a sense of its capabilities as well as restrictions vis-a-vis openclaw
Think of it as as a form of openclaw (though they have their own agent harness) with lots of security layers built by an ex-Firebase (acquired by Google) team with decent VC funding
https://x.com/TaskletAI
https://x.com/startupandrew
https://x.com/jonnydimond
https://x.com/parker_chun_
---
Hi! I'm Michael Lehenbauer, engineer #2 at Firebase. Among other things, I invented Firebase Database security rules (I'm sorry!). Lately I've been working with Andrew Lee (co-founder of Firebase) and a handful of other Firebase teammates on Tasklet.
Tasklet makes it trivially easy to automate your business processes with autonomous AI agents that can talk to your email, calendar, bug tracker, and basically everything. I also use it to run my personal life (plan hikes, find local events / activities to attend, find shopping deals, etc. ).
Similar to Firebase we're trying to empower users with powerful capabilities behind a ruthlessly simple UX. Would love for folks to give it a try and be brutally honest in your feedback.
——
2 | via Simon Willinson OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I've had a few days of preview access - it's a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and Automations for running scheduled tasks.
Introducing the Codex app—a powerful command center for building with agents.
Now available on macOS.
openai.com
Codex | AI Coding Partner from OpenAIThe best way to build with agents. Codex accelerates real engineering work, from planning and building features to refactors, reviews, and releases—working seamlessly across your tools. |
1 | Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6, its upgraded smartest model featuring improved planning, longer agentic task sustainment, reliable operation in massive codebases, self-error detection Claude Opus 4.6 targets developers and knowledge workers with top scores in agentic coding (65.4% on Terminal-Bench 2.0), software engineering (80.8% on SWE-bench), and tool use (91.9% on TAU-bench), often beating rivals like Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2. New features include a beta 1 million token context window, agent teams for parallel work in Claude Code, and integrations with Excel and PowerPoint for tougher office tasks. Staff like Boris Cherny praise its intelligence and endurance, with early testers hailing it as a 'true collaborator' already transforming video production and code analysis. |
Introducing Kilo Claw — hosted OpenClaw, powered by Kilo.
Kilo Claw gives you a fully managed OpenClaw instance in under 60 seconds.
No SSH. No Docker. No yaml. Just click and go.
Every chat platform pre-configured and ready.
It runs on the same Kilo Gateway already serving 1.4M+ developers with 500+ AI models.
Same account. Same credits. Same transparent pricing with zero markup on AI tokens.
If you use Kilo Code, you're already set up. We're rolling out to early adopters first.
Join the waitlist → https://kilo.ai/kiloclaw
Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as the various content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others who you think may find this content/community useful to them
The cover image of this newsletter via generated via the Google Nano Banana Pro model within the Freepik tool via the following prompt
A sprawling cyberpunk-dieselpunk cityscape at twilight, with neon signs flickering over grimy streets. Airships hover above, and industrial smokestacks belch black clouds.
3 | Came across Ask Ellie via product hunt which is billed as an AI Assistant for Engineering Leadership Get Ask Ellie: AI Assistant for Engineering LeadershipUnifying code quality and security, team management and velocity - bridging code execution with leadership clarity.  |
4 | via Ethan Smith, CEO of Graphite — * I am cohosting our first AEO conference with AirOps and Webflow. * Logistics - February 19th, in person in San Francisco at The Conservatory. * Attendees - Limited attendees, preference for senior executives in the category. * Apply To Attend - AEOConf.com AEO Conference * I am cohosting our first AEO conference with AirOps and Webflow. * Logistics - February 19th, in person in San Francisco at The Conservatory. * Attendees - Limited attendees... | Ethan Smith | 59 commentsAEO Conference * I am cohosting our first AEO conference with AirOps and Webflow. * Logistics - February 19th, in person in San Francisco at The Conservatory. * Attendees - Limited attendees, preference for senior executives in the category. * Apply To Attend - AEOConf.com This will be a different kind of conference.  |
2 | Factory's Droid now supports plugins. Plugins bundle skills, commands, and agents into packages you can install and share. Every team works differently. Plugins let you shape Droid to fit your workflow, then share that setup with others on your team. Plugins - Factory DocumentationExtend Droid with shareable packages of skills, commands, and tools.  |
3 | Pinging those members in this group who understand the dark arts of video editing to kick the tires and tell us plebians if this YC backed product befits the hype. Happy also to get comments from the founder of HeyEddie Shamir Alibhai who I hope reads this group more frequently than I'm assuming he does --- It lives in your browser and helps you go from a sea of raw footage (talking heads, screen recordings, screenshots, B-rolls) to a great video in seconds. Think of it as “vibe editing” Launch YC: Cardboard - Agentic Video Editor | Y CombinatorEdit videos at the speed of thought!  |
2 | GPT‑5.3-Codex, the most capable agentic coding model to date. The model advances both the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex and the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2, together in one model, which is also 25% faster. This enables it to take on long-running tasks that involve research, tool use, and complex execution. Much like a colleague, you can steer and interact with GPT‑5.3-Codex while it’s working, without losing context. GPT‑5.3‑Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. Introducing GPT-5.3-CodexGPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work.  ttps://x.com/sama/status/2019474754529321247 |
3 | Factory has open-sourced its' internal lint rules -- Our internal lint rules are now open source, featuring 23+ custom rules we use to guide droids at Factory. These rules cover file organization, React patterns, testing, error handling, API conventions, and more. Every rule is 100% droid-generated and includes detailed Markdown docs. While this isn't meant to be imported as-is, we hope it inspires you to build custom linting rules tailored to your own codebase. Take what works, ignore what doesn’t, and tweak as needed. You can leverage the docs as building blocks to suit your specific framework or language. |
4 | Introducing Model Council in Perplexity. Council Mode lets you delegate to a swarm of frontier reasoning LLMs, where they work async, and a chair LLM synthesizes a more accurate answer considering multiple perspectives. Available now on web only for Perplexity Max subscribers. ttps://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2019444886114824219 |
5 | A lot of sub-text in these tweets. For members of this group who are engineering leaders, lots to ponder about as to the various things which lead to 'agent readiness' |
3 | Came across Ask Ellie via product hunt which is billed as an AI Assistant for Engineering Leadership Get Ask Ellie: AI Assistant for Engineering LeadershipUnifying code quality and security, team management and velocity - bridging code execution with leadership clarity. |
4 | via Ethan Smith, CEO of Graphite — * I am cohosting our first AEO conference with AirOps and Webflow. * Logistics - February 19th, in person in San Francisco at The Conservatory. * Attendees - Limited attendees, preference for senior executives in the category. * Apply To Attend - AEOConf.com AEO Conference * I am cohosting our first AEO conference with AirOps and Webflow. * Logistics - February 19th, in person in San Francisco at The Conservatory. * Attendees - Limited attendees... | Ethan Smith | 59 commentsAEO Conference * I am cohosting our first AEO conference with AirOps and Webflow. * Logistics - February 19th, in person in San Francisco at The Conservatory. * Attendees - Limited attendees, preference for senior executives in the category. * Apply To Attend - AEOConf.com This will be a different kind of conference. |
2 | Factory's Droid now supports plugins. Plugins bundle skills, commands, and agents into packages you can install and share. Every team works differently. Plugins let you shape Droid to fit your workflow, then share that setup with others on your team. Plugins - Factory DocumentationExtend Droid with shareable packages of skills, commands, and tools. |
3 | Pinging those members in this group who understand the dark arts of video editing to kick the tires and tell us plebians if this YC backed product befits the hype. Happy also to get comments from the founder of HeyEddie Shamir Alibhai who I hope reads this group more frequently than I'm assuming he does --- It lives in your browser and helps you go from a sea of raw footage (talking heads, screen recordings, screenshots, B-rolls) to a great video in seconds. Think of it as “vibe editing” Launch YC: Cardboard - Agentic Video Editor | Y CombinatorEdit videos at the speed of thought! |
2 | GPT‑5.3-Codex, the most capable agentic coding model to date. The model advances both the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex and the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2, together in one model, which is also 25% faster. This enables it to take on long-running tasks that involve research, tool use, and complex execution. Much like a colleague, you can steer and interact with GPT‑5.3-Codex while it’s working, without losing context. GPT‑5.3‑Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. Introducing GPT-5.3-CodexGPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work. ttps://x.com/sama/status/2019474754529321247 |
3 | Factory has open-sourced its' internal lint rules -- Our internal lint rules are now open source, featuring 23+ custom rules we use to guide droids at Factory. These rules cover file organization, React patterns, testing, error handling, API conventions, and more. Every rule is 100% droid-generated and includes detailed Markdown docs. While this isn't meant to be imported as-is, we hope it inspires you to build custom linting rules tailored to your own codebase. Take what works, ignore what doesn’t, and tweak as needed. You can leverage the docs as building blocks to suit your specific framework or language. |
4 | Introducing Model Council in Perplexity. Council Mode lets you delegate to a swarm of frontier reasoning LLMs, where they work async, and a chair LLM synthesizes a more accurate answer considering multiple perspectives. Available now on web only for Perplexity Max subscribers. ttps://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2019444886114824219 |
5 | A lot of sub-text in these tweets. For members of this group who are engineering leaders, lots to ponder about as to the various things which lead to 'agent readiness' |
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