🔎 Preview: In today's issue

• ✨ Human in the loop and 'AI in the middle'
• 🌊 Builder.io blends the AI and NoCode world
• 📺 Podcast on working with n8n and Claude
• 🔥 Lindy 3.0 comes out firing

Hello and Happy Tuesday to the regulars and the 267 new subscribers 👋

We're still here every week through August curating the latest AI news for you all in one place. You'll even find the latest Create With podcast in this issue giving you a breakdown of what's new in the space.
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Let's jump in...

🤓 Explain Like I'm 5
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When running a process or automation, AI checks with a human at a critical point or a training step. When training new models this helps refine the confidence of the model. In other work contexts, a person needs to make a decision before the workflow can continue. It's all about bringing in human involvement at the right time.

Here's how it works in practice:

Email sorting: AI reads through your inbox, categorises everything as "urgent," "routine," or "spam," then shows you the decisions for a quick thumbs up or down before taking action.

Content creation: AI writes three different marketing emails, then waits for you to pick the best one and hit send. You're not writing from scratch, but you're still the creative director.

Customer support: AI analyses a complaint, suggests three possible responses, and highlights which one it thinks is best. The human agent reviews, maybe tweaks the tone, then approves it.

For low-stakes stuff (sorting emails, basic scheduling), AI runs solo. For medium-stakes decisions (customer responses, content posting), it prepares options and asks for approval.

For high-stakes situations (refunds, firing customers, strategic decisions), it just provides analysis and lets humans drive.

The sweet spot is AI handling 80% of the grunt work whilst humans focus on the 20% that requires judgement, creativity, or relationship management.

The bottom line: It's not AI versus humans - it's AI amplifying human decision-making by doing the prep work and serving up the best options.

Balaji @balajis AI doesn’t do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle. The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying. 3:26 PM • Jun 24, 2025 602 Retweets 5060 Likes Read 226 replies

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🔊 On your radar

Keep your finger on the pulse of what we think is hot in the space right now 🔥

⭐️ Character.AI launches world's first AI-native social feed

👉 Why it matters: They're attempting to flip social media from passive scrolling to active creating. Every post becomes a remix-able playground where you can rewrite storylines, debate with AI characters, or turn conversations into videos. This could signal the death of traditional social feeds—why watch other humans when you can interact with infinite AI personalities who never sleep, never judge, and always engage? The real test will be whether Gen Z abandons Instagram reels for AI character streams.

(Feels icky imo)

⭐️ Builder.io's visual development platform bridges the designer-developer gap

👉 Why it matters: Copy-paste any Figma design and get production-ready code that actually uses your existing components and coding standards. It's not another "design-to-code" gimmick—it connects to your real repositories and respects your design systems. We haven't tried but it can handle any existing code base and produce a 'NoCodey' UI for you tweak. I like. Friend of Create With, JJ, did a great interview with the founder with insightful demos.

⭐️ Lindy 3.0 launches "vibe coding" for AI agents plus cloud computers

👉 Why it matters: They've cracked the two biggest agent problems: complexity and integrations. Agent Builder lets you prompt your way to custom agents in minutes, whilst Autopilot gives each agent its own cloud computer to work with any interface—no API required. They appear to have got close to their idea of an "Al employee. It's a sexy interface and looks simple enough with usable examples: such as scheduling an agent to login to X and block any mentions that are spammy.

Extra: Ideogram just released Character - the first character consistency model that works with just one reference image. Now available to all users for free! For silly marketing material...i think it's damn good.

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Thankfully only wasted 5 minutes of my day on this

🔗 Bonus links for subscribers

• 🔥 Contra just released Indy that searches your network for new work opportunities - perfect for freelancers
• Bubble released AI generated data types​
• ​How to master Claude Code sub agents​
• ​Paper and X breakdown of what the Agentic Web looks like
• ​Helpful explainer in simple language in how to prompt an AI video maker
• ​How shareable ChatGPT links ended up on Google search...and then disappeared
• ​AI Fluency Course from Anthropic and an AI Agents For Beginners Course from Microsoft
• ​Google's drag and drop workflow builder is in beta. They call MVPs "Mini AI Apps"...still being careful not to explicitly say "Apps"
• ​n8n release an AI Agent tool to make it easier to work with more than 1 agent inside a workflow
• Got a vibe coded product you built or want to see some examples? KP is looking for new ones in his vibe coding showcase.
• If you've built anything with Zapier that you think is useful; apply to the Zappy Awards (Entry closes 6th August 11.59PST)

☕️ Knowledge shot - Agentic Web - a transformative vision of the internet where autonomous AI agents, powered by LLMs, act on behalf of users to plan, coordinate, and execute tasks. Users delegate intents like “plan a trip” or “summarise recent research,” and agents autonomously orchestrate multi-step workflows across services and platforms.

📺 PODCAST: Retreat v0.1 + Claude Code, Agentic Development and n8n

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In this episode of the Create With podcast, James and Kieran discuss their recent team retreat in the Netherlands, where they focused on launching Create With Season Two.

They share insights on building with Bubble and N8n, the importance of in-person meetups, and their experiences at the Internet Friends Meetup.

The conversation also touches on the challenges of learning to code, the new Shopify developer platform, and the exciting developments in agentic development. They highlight their partnership with 100 School and the upcoming events and membership benefits for the Create With community.

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💭 Final Thoughts

Smarter AI's require smarter captchas - here's one by Neal Agarwal for humans who know the ✨joys✨ of assembling IKEA furniture with their own hands 🪑

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See you next week!
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With good vibes ✨
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The Create With Team

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