# Newsletter #8

Published: 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/newsletter-8

## Upgrades

1. **Google Docs:** agents can finally leave [comments and suggestions](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/google-docs-api-comments-suggestions) on your Google Docs. This works in Claude Code and Codex. Your org's tech team can get it working in Claude Cowork and ChatGPT. ⭐

2. **Design:** [Claude Design](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/claude-design-is-really-good) is really good for websites, presentations, and UIs. ⭐

3. **Browser use:** Codex CLI can now [directly control Chrome](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/codex-cli-chrome-control) and [log in to websites via 1Password](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/login-to-websites-with-codex-and-1password).

4. **Prompt injection:** Anthropic have driven attack success rates [down to zero](https://x.com/bcherny/status/2085860677990883454). Claude Code [now defaults to auto-mode](https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code). To repeat from previous newsletters (people keep asking): you can [stop worrying about prompt injection](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/dont-worry-about-prompt-injection-when-using-consumer-apps) when using Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. Go ahead and connect your agents to Google Drive, Gmail, etc. And enable [browser use](https://wow.pjh.is/tags/browser-use).

## Delegation

5. **Life admin:** my agents [handled 2+ days of life admin last month](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/my-agents-handled-2-plus-days-of-life-admin). End-to-end task completion—not copy-and-paste. They're rivalling a human PA for many things. ⭐

6. **One prompt, live website:** I [one-shotted a website](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/one-shot-website) for an academic paper. The result was truly ready to ship with no revisions.

## How to focus, despite AI

7. **Go nuclear:** [I start the day with pen and paper](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/i-start-my-mornings-with-pen-and-paper). 15+ mins, laptop in bag.

8. **Make it easy:** I took [various measures](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/how-to-focus-despite-ai-agents) to make the right actions easy. ⭐

9. **Experiment:** [if I get distracted, an agent yells at me](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/if-i-get-distracted-an-agent-yells-as-me). When I start a chat, the agent looks at my day plan and challenges anything that seems off piste.

## Skills

10. **Google Doc to Substack:** [Google Doc → Substack draft](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/skill-google-doc-to-substack) with a single prompt, including images, footnotes and tables.

11. **Log failure, fix later:** [log chats that go badly](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/log-chats-that-go-badly), review them later.

12. **YouTube:** [cut the ads, intro and banter](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/youtube-clip-skill) from tutorial videos.

13. **Events:** I [organise dance events with a skill](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/salsa-event-skill), obviously. Poster, Facebook events, Messenger promotion, comms with the venue.

14. **Sentimental:** [turn your weekly review into a visual keepsake](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/turn-weekly-review-into-keepsake).

## Coding

15. **Mobile apps:** [making native apps is now roughly as easy as making PWAs](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/native-apps-are-as-easy-as-pwas).

16. **Sol 5.6:** if it's over-engineering simple changes, [switch from "high" to "medium" effort](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/sol-5-6-use-medium-effort-for-coding). I also had to disable Compound Engineering.

## For power users

17. **Usage anxiety:** worried about hitting the Fable limit early? Try this [one weird trick](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/status-bar-daily-usage-target) (a status bar tweak).

18. **Find old chats:** my [`cr` tool](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/search-agent-conversations) finds and resumes agent conversations.

19. **AGENTS.md:** [my latest instructions](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/my-current-agents-md).

## For audiophiles

20. **Podcatcher:** my personal [podcatcher app](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/the-podcatcher-ive-always-wanted) makes me listen to better stuff. Key thing: good summaries mean better episode choices. [Try it!](https://podcatcher.pjh.is/)

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