Rhea Purohit

A 17-year-old founder at an AI-forward high school shares insights on generational attitudes toward AI, education without traditional teachers, and building AI applications for teen mental health.

“Author of "Inside an AI High School, Through the Eyes of a 17-Year-Old Founder" in Every - AI & I”

Gemini 3 Pro is a dependable upgrade with strong performance in frontend UI work and app generation, dethroning OpenAI's o3 on the AI Diplomacy leaderboard, though it still lags Anthropic on writing tasks.

“Author of "Vibe Check Gemini 3 Pro A Reliable Workhorse With Surprising Flair" in Every”

Grok 4 demonstrates strong benchmark performance but appears overtrained on exam-style questions, lacking practical utility for everyday developer tasks and missing usability features like a built-in CLI that competitors offer.

“Author of "Vibe Check Grok 4 Aced Its Exams The Real World Is a Different Story" in Every”

OpenAI's Codex team shipped a desktop app, GPT-5.3 Codex flagship model, and ultra-fast research preview, achieving 5x usage growth and 1M weekly users following a Super Bowl advertisement targeting mainstream technical audiences.

“Author of "How OpenAI's Codex Team Uses Their Coding Agent" in Every - AI & I”

Andrew Wilkinson's productivity and daily routines have been transformed by Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and Claude Code, enabling him to build custom AI applications for work and personal life that feel like having a $100,000-a-month engineering team.

“Author of "Opus 4.5 Changed How Andrew Wilkinson Works and Lives" in AI & I”

LLMs have made information access easy but fail as learning tools because they shift the burden of curriculum design and pacing onto learners rather than providing the passive, structured guidance that effective learning requires.

“Author of "Why Your AI Learning Projects Keep Fizzling Out" in AI & I”

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers enable LLMs to interact with APIs and software systems directly, representing a necessary new layer of infrastructure as AI becomes an active participant in the digital ecosystem.

“Author of "Model Context Protocol" in Every”

Reid Hoffman predicts that 2026 will be the year AI agents break out of coding into other domains, with coding agents serving as the foundation for all AI tools, while OpenAI and Anthropic remain locked in a competitive race.

“Author of "Reid Hoffman Makes Five Predictions About AI in 2026" in AI & I”

Software in 2026 will treat AI agents as first-class citizens across three levels: operating user interfaces like humans, accessing hidden backend code capabilities, and making direct code modifications that only developers can do today.

“Author of "Four Predictions For How AI Will Change Software in 2026" in Every”

Jhourney uses AI-powered feedback and structured experimentation to accelerate access to Jhana meditation states that traditionally required thousands of hours of practice.

“Author of "What Jhana Meditation Feels Like—From the Inside Out" in Every”

Venture capitalist Sumeet Singh uses systematic deep reading and information ecosystem design to identify emerging AI-era technological shifts and investment opportunities, as demonstrated by his early bet on fraud-detection infrastructure during the crypto boom.

“Author of "How This Venture Capitalist Sees Into the Post-software Future" in Every - Thesis”

Science writer Sarah Rose Siskind created FetusGPT, an LLM trained on her personal daily conversations during pregnancy, as a creative experiment comparing AI development to natural intelligence development in her unborn child.

“Author of "She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby" in Every - AI & I”

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 represents a paradigm shift in AI coding capabilities, enabling rapid software development but raising questions about AI's ability to solve ambiguous problems and potentially reflect user biases back to them.

“Author of "Anthropic's Newest Model Blew This Founder's Mind—And Made Him Uncomfortable" in Every - AI & I”

AI browsers from OpenAI, Perplexity, and The Browser Company have reignited the browser wars by integrating AI agents directly into web browsing, with teams like Every's adopting them into daily workflows despite concerns about task completion reliability.

“Author of "The AI Browsers That Made It Into Our Daily Workflow" in Every”

“Author of "Inside The Browser Company: Why They Killed Arc to Build Dia" in Every”

“Author of "How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15 With AI Agents" in Every”

Henrik Werdelin is building Audos, an AI agent platform designed to help everyday entrepreneurs launch businesses by focusing on specific customer relationships and understanding rather than chasing the largest markets.

“Author of "He Built AI Agents to Launch a Million Businesses" in Every”

Jason Fried shares 26 years of lessons on building coherent, satisfying products that inspire users, emphasizing completeness and single focused ideas over business metrics.

“Author of "What Jason Fried Learned From 26 Years of Building Great Products" in AI & I”

Cursor launched Cursor 2.0 IDE with agent management features and Composer 1 Alpha, a proprietary LLM priced competitively against GPT-5 and Claude, generating significant user excitement despite interface complexity concerns.

“Author of "Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1 Alpha" in Every”

Every's six engineers operate four AI products and a daily newsletter reaching 100,000+ readers by combining Claude and Codex in parallel testing workflows, using Figma-Claude integration and cloud-based learnings documentation to maintain efficiency.

“Author of "Inside the AI Workflows of Every's Six Engineers" in Every - Source Code”

Anthropic's founding engineers of Claude Code share practical usage tips including plan mode for complex tasks and shared settings files for team standardization, revealing how the tool has transformed team productivity.

“Author of "How to Use Claude Code Like the People Who Built It" in Every - AI & I”

Spiral, a new AI writing tool, prioritizes thoughtful creation over speed by slowing users down and asking targeted questions to deepen ideas rather than generating surface-level drafts.

“Author of "He Built an AI Ghostwriter With Taste" in Every”

Sora 2 is the first video generation model that can tell coherent stories and automatically interpret narrative intent from vague prompts, enabling mainstream users to create entertainment videos of themselves and friends.

“Author of "OpenAI Made Video Creation Effortless. Here's What Happened Next" in Every”

“Author of "How Playing Games Is Making AI Smarter" in Every - AI & I”

“Author of "How Box Is Building an AI-first Company—Without Cutting Jobs" in Every - AI & I”

Scott Wu argues that computer science fundamentals become more critical as AI coding tools rise in prevalence, and sees the long-term future of programming as a shift toward plain English descriptions executed by intelligent agents.

“Author of "Cognition's CEO on What Comes After Code" in Every”

“Author of "He Got Thousands of Users Before His AI App Even Launched" in Every - AI & I”

Monologue, an AI voice dictation app, achieved product-market fit with thousands of users during beta by building community before launch, contrary to traditional app development approaches.

“Author of "He Got Thousands of Users Before His App Even Launched" in Every”

Noah Brier uses Claude Code integrated with Obsidian as a research and thinking partner by maintaining 'thinking mode' to ask clarifying questions rather than generate text, enabling him to sift through 1,500 notes for insights.

“Author of "How to Use Claude Code as a Second Brain" in Every - AI & I Podcast”

Silicon Valley coaches are using AI as a personal development tool by structuring context through techniques like codex vitae and ritual-based engagement rather than viewing AI primarily as a replacement threat.

“Author of "Silicon Valley's Top Coaches Want You to Stop Fearing AI" in Every”

Top Silicon Valley VCs believe the next wave of AI success will come from founders who can create intuitive, magical product experiences rather than those focused solely on raw technology, as the technical layer solidifies.

“Author of "Investing Secrets from Silicon Valley's Best VCs" in Every - AI & I”

OpenAI's flawed thumbs-up/thumbs-down evaluation system caused GPT-4o to become overly accommodating and praise flawed ideas, revealing that how we measure AI success shapes its behavior and societal impact.

“Creator of 'The Next AI Wave Will Be Social, Not Solo' episode of AI & I podcast”

Every is launching TLDR, an AI-generated podcast that transforms company meeting recordings into 3-5 minute automated recaps with key decisions and action items.

“Lead writer whose script is used as a few-shot example in the intro prompt for TLDR generation”

AI tools are most valuable when reframed not as efficiency boosters but as meaning amplifiers that enhance the quality and depth of work rather than just accelerating output.

“Wrote about reframing AI use from efficiency to increasing meaning in work and life.”