Newsletter

Updates and long-form essays from the Nori team on AI agents and the agent ecosystem. Product comparison guides live in the guides hub.

• Agentics: Memorizing Session Transcripts Isn’t Useful
  Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Session transcript search gave our agents zero performance benefit on SWE tasks — and automatic memory may make models worse.
  July 2, 2026
• Guides: Top Remote & Ephemeral Dev Sandboxes in 2026
  Spin up, ship, disappear. How GitHub Codespaces, Ona, Daytona, Coder, and DevPod compare — and why Nori Sessions is the agent-first answer.
  July 3, 2026
• Guides: Top AI Coding Agent Runtimes & Sandboxes in 2026
  Sandboxes give AI agents a place to run. A runtime gives them a job. How the field stacks up — and why Nori Sessions ships the whole stack.
  July 2, 2026
• Agentics: HTML is All You Need (for Agents to Make Graphics)
  An experiment in pushing coding agents as far as possible to make visual media.
  June 30, 2026
• DevLog #10: Conversations Follow You Everywhere, a Snowflake Agent Joins, and AWS Comes Aboard
  Start a session on one surface and resume it live on another, with new !resume and !catchup commands. Snowflake Cortex Code joins as a selectable agent, AWS becomes a one-form integration, checkpoints grow to 2GB, the registrar gets a skillset review desk, and nori-lint reaches week nine of doing nothing.
  June 29, 2026
• Guides: Top Cloud-Based IDEs in 2026
  The browser editor is no longer the point. How the leading cloud-based IDEs compare in 2026, and why agent-first teams pick Nori Sessions.
  June 29, 2026
• Agentics: the modern company won’t have bullshit jobs
  The upside case for AI is that this is a freeing and joyful thing.
  June 25, 2026
• Agentics: Cost to Implement vs Cost to Verify
  Models have compressed the cost to implement. The cost to verify has not moved. That gap is the new bottleneck.
  June 22, 2026
• DevLog #9: Cursor Joins the Crew, Chat Moves to the Browser, and Sessions Survive a Deploy
  Cursor joins as a first-class agent, the broker gets a built-in chat app as its home page, and you can switch model or provider mid-thread from Slack. Reliability fixes keep sessions alive across deploys and broker restarts, the CLI's loop mode rides through rate limits, and nori-lint extends its zero-PR streak into an eighth week.
  June 22, 2026
• DevLog #8: Agents Improve Themselves, a New Brain Named Fable, and Admins Get the Keys
  Sessions ships an opt-in Skill Improvement Loop that drafts skillset edits for human approval, adds the Claude Fable 5 model and Brevo, Grafana, and Better Stack integrations, hands admins self-service idle timeouts and unlimited invites, and fixes the reliability bug that left sessions thinking forever.
  June 15, 2026
• Agentics: Using Coding Agents for Browser Automation
  Playwright is rapidly becoming my default laptop browser.
  June 10, 2026
• DevLog #7: The CLI Wakes Up, Agents Get a Browser, and Triggers Learn Time Zones
  The CLI returns from sabbatical with cloud sessions you can launch from the terminal, an agent-controlled browser, and persistent thread goals. Sessions ships time-zone-aware triggers, an in-browser skillset builder, a Render integration, and a stack of Slack and Discord fixes.
  June 8, 2026
• Agentics: local coding agents are inherently unsafe
  Easy, powerful, secure. Pick two.
  June 6, 2026
• DevLog #6: New Default Brains, Slack Bouncers, and a Goodbye to Goose
  Claude Opus 4.8 becomes the default model, Slack gains Open/Guarded/Strict access modes, the dashboard adds a Users page with invites and an owner role, the MCP catalog hits 58 servers, and Goose and Cline retire as first-class agents.
  June 1, 2026
• DevLog #5: Reminder Triggers, Discord Grows Up, and Agents Configure Themselves
  Sessions ships one-time triggers, Discord gets three reliability fixes, Handroll gains ACP remote control, and agents can now modify their own org environment.
  May 25, 2026
• Agentics: How Corvus uses AI to remove three hidden taxes on development
  Background agents helped a four-person team in chemical manufacturing feel like twelve
  May 19, 2026
• DevLog #4: Session Transcripts, Bang Commands, and Your CLI Learns New Tricks
  Sessions ships a transcript reader. Slack gets four new bang commands. The CLI composer gains shell mode, skill discovery, and syntax-highlighted diffs. Skillsets adds symlink support and settings.json backup.
  May 18, 2026
• DevLog #3: Public API Tokens, Docker in Sessions, and Slack Stops Saying “Sprite”
  Public registrar API tokens land end-to-end across Registrar, Skillsets, and Sessions. Docker daemons are first-class on sprites. A new sessions landing page with Slack permalinks. An OAuth incident becomes proactive token refresh.
  May 11, 2026
• DevLog #2: Multi-Agent MCP, Durable Resume, and One-Click Google Workspace
  MCP works across Claude, Codex, and Gemini at the same time. Sessions resume a Slack thread after the original VM is gone. The CLI gains a transcript-backed nori resume.
  May 4, 2026
• Agentics: Using Metacognition to Get A Model Upgrade
  The industry has coalesced around a standard best practice for using coding agents. We’re calling it SPACE development.
  April 30, 2026
• DevLog #1: Skillset-Aware Sessions, MCP Catalogs, and Honest Token Counters
  Sessions gets a real MCP catalog, skillset-aware triggers and Slack threads, built-in CLIs on every VM, and Skillsets fixes its token math.
  April 27, 2026
• Agentics: AI enablement requires managed agent runtimes
  AI enablement in enterprise requires nothing less than fully managed agent runtimes.
  April 23, 2026
• DevLog #0: Multi-Provider Support, MCP Integrations, and 47 Bugfixes
  Sessions supports Claude, Codex, and Gemini. MCP integrations are live. The CLI now lets you bring your own ACP agent.
  April 20, 2026
• Agentics: I hate making powerpoints, coding agents make it better
  Using coding agents to make slide decks ~25x faster than before.
  March 31, 2026
• Agentics: 6 emerging agent dev tool categories, market map, and meditations on the AI dev tool market
  Reinventing dev tools in the age of AI.
  March 24, 2026
• Agentics: How to Effectively Use Coding Agents
  A talk at NYU Langone’s OLAB on how Nori uses coding agents.
  March 13, 2026
• Agentics: We wrote a linter for SKILL.md files
  Parsing through a sea of snake oil.
  March 5, 2026
• Agentics: PMs Should Vibe Code
  AI is making product people the MVPs of any business.
  March 4, 2026
• Agentics: Agent orchestrators are bad
  Agent orchestrators cost more, produce worse outputs, and feel productive without being productive. Here’s why.
  February 19, 2026
• Agentics: Your agent skills are all slop
  We believe in only the finest, hand crafted, barrel aged, artisanal skills.
  January 18, 2026
• Agentics: People are seeing the light on coding agents
  Year 0 of the agentic coding revolution.
  January 7, 2026
• Agentics: Coding agents suck at microservices
  Somewhat contra humanlayer on docs.
  December 10, 2025
• Agentics: Debugging when everything is on fire
  Using AI to debug critical system failures.
  November 20, 2025
• Agentics: Coding Agents can Manage Other Coding Agents
  Test Driven Development is all you need
  November 14, 2025
• Agentics: Averaging 10+ PRs a day with Claude Code
  If you use Claude Code, try nori-ai, it’s really good
  October 30, 2025
• Agentics: We’re all senior engineers now
  All problems are search problems and how that applies to coding agents
  October 1, 2025