Welcome to syntax. Today we had an episode for you on background agents, long-running AI tasks.

Some of these coding tools that are significantly more expensive and significantly more autonomous,

being able to run it on your own. Some of that are fine-to-m models. We're talking about like

the Open AI Codex, Claude Code, the new cursor background

agents. They just released a new $200 a month plan. And like I feel like we're on like the cusp of like

another wave of these tools and another wave of what they can do and how we're actually using

them, which is hilarious,

because if you go back to the episode of us at the end of last year, one of my predictions

was, I feel like the AI is going to get like, I feel like we're not going to see any major

improvements this year, you know, we're just going to get significant or a little bit better

here and there. But man, this're just going to get significantly, or a little bit better here and there.

But, man, this stuff is really exciting. And I dove into all the different tools. We're going to

talk about how they work and how you might want to use them. And are they really that much better?

And is it really worth spending 10 times the amount that you're spending on like a copilot subscription or

something like that.

Yeah, one thing I think we did get right was that the AIs themselves might not go through

some extreme evolution, but the way in which we use them will evolve.

And I think already through June here, we're seeing so many different

new, totally different new approaches to interaction with them. And I was actually just got back

from JS Nation and React Summit in Amsterdam, where I was emceeing both days. And I had a lot of conversations

with people about the interfaces in which we interface with AI. And that was like such a huge

topic of conversation more so than like, will the models get better? Will this get better?

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