AI Tidbits – The Week AI Crossed a Line: Search, Software, and Super-Agents

AI Tidbits – The Week AI Crossed a Line: Search, Software, and Super-Agents

This year AI will stop supporting workflows and starts replacing entire layers of them. Search behavior is changing, software economics are breaking, and AI agents are moving from “cool demos” to real economic actors. This week’s updates aren’t incremental — they signal a structural shift in how people discover information, build products, and decide what software is even worth paying for.

Let’s get into it. 👇

 

🔍 ChatGPT Gets Googled MORE Than Instagram, YouTube, Facebook & TikTok

In under two and a half years, ChatGPT has matched — and in some cases surpassed — the search interest of platforms that took a decade or more to build global brand demand.

That’s not just impressive. It’s unprecedented.

Unlike social platforms that depend on content creation cycles, virality, and creators, ChatGPT plugs directly into intent. People don’t open it to browse — they open it to solve something. And that’s why this matters.

📖 Read the full analysis here:
ChatGPT gets Googled MORE

 

🧠 Which LLM Should You Actually Use?

Choosing an LLM in 2026 is no longer about “which is smartest.”
It’s about which model fits the job.

The era of one-model-does-everything is over. Writing, coding, research, vision, and automation now demand specialists, not generalists.

See the comparison chart below 👇 — save it, screenshot it, argue about it

🛠 Block’s Free, Open-Source Answer to Claude Code

Meet Goose — Block Inc’s (Jack Dorsey) open-source alternative to Claude Code.

Why it’s turning heads:

• 💸 Completely free (you only pay for the LLM you choose)
• 🔌 Connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek
• 💻 Runs locally — even works offline
• ⚙️ Build apps or automate coding with simple prompts

Claude Code costs anywhere from $20 to $200/month. Goose costs zero.

Watch it in action here:
👉 Goose Flies

 

💥 Claude’s Market Disruption Is Getting Real

Anthropic’s Claude Code is doing something rare in tech: collapsing timelines.

• Products that once took months are now built in days
• Anthropic’s own productivity tool, Cowork, was built in just 10 days using Claude Code

This is triggering a brutal rethink across corporate America.

The Build vs Buy Equation Is Breaking

Why pay recurring SaaS subscriptions when AI can rebuild 70–80% of the functionality in-house?

Wall Street is already reacting:

• 📉 Intuit, Salesforce, HubSpot — all down double digits
• 📈 Companies owning systems of record (data moats) are rising

SaaS isn’t dying — but generic SaaS absolutely is.

Adapt… or disappear.

 

🎧 Turn Articles Into Mini Audiobooks (Free)

ElevenLabs’ ElevenReader does one thing — and does it extremely well.

Paste any article, and it becomes a clean, listenable audiobook using AI voices.

Simple. Useful. Surprisingly addictive.

🎧 Try it here: https://elevenreader.io/

 

📖 Read Long Articles Faster — Bookmark This Prompt

Shared by r/ChatGPTPromptGenius, this prompt turns dense articles into something your brain can actually digest.

Prompt:

“You are a reading assistant. The user will provide you with an article to read. Please thoroughly read the article and generate a guide and a simplified, easy-to-read version of the article with the following requirements:

Your output:

Mind Map: First, generate a mind map for the entire guide.
Summary: Next, provide a summary of the entire text, limited to 400 words.
Simplified Article: Then, present your rewritten, simplified, and easy-to-read version of the article.

Requirements for Rewriting:

Word Count: Compress the word count to half of the original, and ensure it does not exceed 3,000 words.
Author’s Tone: Simulate the original author’s tone.
Formatting: Format the output to ensure a visually appealing layout and ease of reading.
Visual Elements: Insert tables, charts, diagrams, SVGs, and other visual elements in appropriate places to enhance readability.”

 

🧱 Educational Dioramas with Nano Banana Pro

This is one of the cleanest educational visual prompts floating around right now.

Prompt:

“Create a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D educational diorama explaining [PROCESS / CONCEPT].
Use soft refined textures, realistic PBR materials, and gentle lifelike lighting.
Build a stepped or layered diorama base showing each stage of the process with subtle arrows or paths.
Include tiny stylized figures interacting with each stage (no facial details).
Use a clean solid [BACKGROUND COLOR] background.
At the top-center, display [PROCESS NAME] in large bold text, directly beneath it show a short explanation subtitle, and place a minimal symbolic icon below.
All text must automatically match the background contrast (white or black).”

📸 My handiwork is shown below 👇 — this format is perfect for explainers, decks, and client education.

🚲 Not AI — But Still Very Cool

For bike lovers and engineers alike:

An omnidirectional ball-based bike engine that looks like it escaped a sci-fi lab.

👉 Omnidirectional Bike

 

Closing Thought for the Week

Search is changing. Software is being unbundled. AI agents are quietly becoming economic actors. 2026 won’t be remembered as the year AI got smarter.
It’ll be remembered as the year everything else had to adapt.

See you next Tuesday. 👋