Ben Tossell Ditches t3 for bb, a New Extensible AI Agent App

Ben Tossell, in his newsletter Ben's Bites, announced he has switched from the t3 agent app to a new one called bb (getbb.app). He praises bb for its ease of setup, taking only 4 seconds on mobile, and its extensible nature, allowing users to build plugins and tools directly within the app. Tossell highlights that bb is built similarly to Pi, a coding harness known for its minimalism and performance, which has been used by companies like Prime Intellect to build their own agents. He also discusses the broader trend of extensible software and the growing pool of 'builders' who use AI to create tools for themselves and others. The newsletter also covers several AI industry headlines: Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable for less than its last valuation, with Airtable's AI business Hyperagent spun out; Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to start Discovery Loop, a lab focused on automating machine-learning research; Cloudflare released agent-first tools including Cloudflare OS, Agent Tracing, and Cloudflare Wallet; Gemini Notebook now allows creating artifacts directly from chat; Meta launched Muse Code, a CLI coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2; and Goodfire AI made its interpretability tool Silico generally available. Tossell also shares a quote about why agents aren't widely adopted, agreeing that the masses prefer not to think about work, but he believes the pool of builders will skyrocket.