OpenClaw Rises, Agents Get Email, Infrastructure Goes AI

Simon Willison tracks the hottest AI project trajectory—from weekend hack to OpenClaw, the story everyone's watching! HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto shares his honest AI journey: the three inevitable phases from struggle to mastery that every developer experiences. Also in this issue: AI is finally learning to shut up—essential UX philosophy for knowing when AI should act silently vs. when it needs to explain! Matteo Collina drops essential reading for anyone entering tech with honest guidance for the AI-transformed engineering landscape. Jampa Uchoa shares ten years of hard-won leadership lessons—the non-obvious advice that books won't teach you. Gergely Orosz gives us a rare inside look at how real companies evaluate and adopt next-gen developer tools. Addy Osmani defines the evolution from "vibe coding" to agentic engineering—how we build software with AI now! On the tools front: AgentMail delivers email infrastructure for AI agents as they become autonomous actors in digital