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Welcome to The Weekly Fizz, a newsletter companion to our podcast.
The Drip
Walmart ended its partnership with OpenAI's Instant Checkout this week. The AI couldn't recommend the right products because it was scraping the web instead of tapping into Walmart's actual product database.
Meanwhile, OpenAI quietly shut down Sora, with Disney pulling out of a billion-dollar deal. Two big signals that AI implementations need to be deeply integrated into the business they serve, not bolted on top. Listen to Justin and Kellan break it down on The Fizz.
Inside The Bottle
Kellan built a TBAi command center.
Not a metaphorical one. An actual Electron desktop app with an iOS companion, backed by Notion, that runs how Tiny Bottle operates day to day. Task management, goal tracking, daily planning routines, meeting runner, contact management, cross-device sync. About 250 commits over two weeks.
The daily routine alone is worth talking about. Every morning, the app surfaces a guided flow: brain-dump what's on your mind (not tasks, not goals, just thoughts), triage your inbox, work your backlog, review today's priorities, and start your day. If it's Monday morning, the weekly routine pops up instead.
Why build this when Notion already exists? Because Notion is flexible and modular, but it's not dialed into how a specific two-person team operates across their entire ecosystem. Email, calendar, AI agents, EOS meetings, content production. The Command Center connects all of it in one place.
Justin noted, "There might be very little AI in the final solution." The Command Center has AI in its daily planning flow, and AI agents helped build it. But the real value is just well-designed software that fits exactly how we work.
That's the bigger idea. Creating software has never been easier. If part of the opportunity with AI is solving a software problem that no vendor has been able to solve, that door is wide open now. Every business has 2-3 spots where a purpose-built application would eliminate delay, reduce waste, and make customers happier. The hard part isn't the technology anymore. It's knowing where to point it.
Lab Notes
| ■ | Justin's note: I met with someone about their sales quoting process. Field reps send in requests, estimators pick them up and find half the info is missing. An AI watching that inbox, understanding what the team needs, filling gaps before a human touches it. That's not futuristic. That's buildable right now. |
| ■ | Kellan's note: I needed to capture thoughts on my phone so they don't get lost, then triage later from desktop or mobile. No app does that the way I need it to. So I built it. The key action was: capture this thing so it doesn't get lost. Everything else can wait. |
Latest Article
From AI Helper to AI Assistant (and the Pitfalls Nobody’s Talking About)
What Stopped Our Scroll
Anthropic's Next Model Leaked Before They Were Ready. A draft blog post describing a "step change" in AI capabilities was found sitting in a public data lake. The model, codenamed "Mythos," wasn't supposed to be public yet. Beyond the capability tease, the security angle is a reminder: even the companies building the most advanced AI still have very human blind spots.
Shopify Just Moved the Storefront Into the Chat Window. Merchants can now sell directly inside ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini through Shopify's new "Agentic Storefronts." You don't even need a full Shopify store to participate. This is agentic commerce going from concept to shipping product, and it's worth paying attention to how fast the buying experience is leaving the chat window.
Claude Is Rationing Compute at Peak Hours. Anthropic is throttling usage more aggressively when demand spikes. It's a real-world signal of the GPU supply crunch we've been talking about — even the best-funded AI labs can't serve everyone all the time yet. If you're building workflows on top of these models, plan for the ceiling.
Bezos Wants $100B to Buy Manufacturers and Inject AI. "Project Prometheus" is reportedly Jeff Bezos's plan to acquire old-economy manufacturing companies and modernize them with AI. It's the thesis we preach to mid-market clients — AI transforms existing businesses — just executed at a scale most of us can't fathom. The playbook still applies at every size.
Google Made Vibe Coding Full-Stack. Google AI Studio's new "Antigravity" agent wires up Firebase databases, auth, and multiplayer — all from a prompt. Go from idea to production app without leaving a browser tab. The bar for building software just got meaningfully lower, and that has implications for every consulting firm selling app development.
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