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Builders’ Picks | 2026-03-23

2026-03-23 · Historical edition

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Anthropic Claude Code engineer Thariq

Anthropic Claude Code engineer Thariq announced a major capability: Claude Code can now control your computer. Available only in Claude Code Desktop, it is explained in the documentation. This marks an important step from AI coding agents toward system-wide automation.

Anthropic researcher Alex Albert

Anthropic researcher Alex Albert remarked that a future where work gets done without opening a laptop is rapidly becoming reality, sharing an image of related progress.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan revealed that a Chrome-sidebar version of Claude Code would soon arrive through GStack. He also shared that Codex is deeply integrated into GStack’s reviews—office hours, CEO review, Design Review, and Engineering Review—and announced that GStack is open-source and free.

FirstMark Capital VC Matt Turck

FirstMark Capital VC Matt Turck voiced a common sentiment: before Claude Code, people with ideas sometimes spent years looking for a “technical co-founder.” Explaining that history to future generations will be difficult.

OpenAI VP Kevin Weil

OpenAI VP of Science Kevin Weil shared an inspiring example: a young astronomer used AI to analyze vast datasets and identify 1.5 million previously unknown celestial objects, earning praise from the president of the US National Academy of Sciences. He sees this as an example of young people using frontier AI for scientific breakthroughs.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger focused on testing over recent days, significantly reducing the OpenClaw test suite’s runtime from nearly 10 minutes to around 2 minutes.

Every CEO Dan Shipper

Every CEO Dan Shipper offered a clear-eyed view of vibe coding: “If you can vibe-code it, you can vibe-fix it, but not necessarily quickly.” He also promoted Every’s one-day Claude Code and Codex training for executives and enterprises.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that he will leave Helion’s board to avoid conflicts of interest as Helion and OpenAI begin exploring a deeper partnership. He remains highly optimistic about Helion and a future of abundant energy.

Builder Peter Yang (AI tutorial creator)

Drawing on practical experience, Peter Yang compared Claude Code and OpenClaw as mobile personal assistants: Claude Code cannot use dangerously skip permissions under remote control, and its remote-control reliability is imperfect; the tools suit different situations. He also previewed in-depth interviews with Claude Cowork and Codex builders, and praised Anthropic’s nearly daily feature releases as setting a benchmark for AI-native development.

Builder Zara Zhang

Zara Zhang released a new skill, “codebase to course,” that turns any codebase into an interactive programming course with visualizations, plain-language code explanations, analogies, and even quizzes, letting developers learn through their own projects.

Linear Head of Product Nan Yu

Linear Head of Product Nan Yu shared a Codex result that astonished him: Codex noticed that a line in his prompt indirectly referred to functionality hidden behind a feature flag in the app and proactively flagged it. He wondered how many human engineers would have caught that detail.

FPV Ventures Partner Nikunj Kothari

FPV Ventures Partner Nikunj Kothari observed that three terms recur in everyone’s conversations in San Francisco: Jevons paradox, Goodhart’s law, and the bitter lesson. He reminded himself and peers to read more history, art, and science fiction rather than remain in an information bubble.

swyx (AI developer)

swyx reshared his analysis of Devin AI, noting more than 50% month-over-month growth in monthly active users and highlighting a key detail of enterprise agent deployment: reassuring compliance and IT teams, rather than simply using `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. He also joked about the investment boom in AI podcasts.