That's billion with a B

Plus, five AI tools you may have missed

WELCOME

Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. This week, agents in your dev flow, CTRL+F for video, and a breakdown of OpenAI’s acquisition of Windsurf.

TOP LAUNCHES

AI in your sprints

TOP LAUNCHES

Shortcut for Agents plugs AI workers straight into the Shortcut backlog. Give an agent its own seat, point it at the next ticket, and watch it write code, update docs, or move cards on its own.

TwelveLabs turns raw footage into searchable data. Drop in hours of video and use plain language or images to spot exact moments, pull summaries, or slice highlight reels.

Compose for macOS lives in your menu bar and cleans up whatever you type with a single hotkey. It works in Notes, Slack, Figma comments—anywhere text hides.

Dash is an AI sidekick that hooks into the tools you already use, keeps track of the conversation, and gets stuff done from a single chat window.

Blooming lets you drop AI models onto a whiteboard and connect them however you want. Text to image, image to video, video back to text. You can link outputs together, tweak prompts as they go, and see how each model plays off the last one.

THE BIG IDEA

OpenAI’s code whisperer

The company is acquiring Windsurf, the coding assistant formerly called Codeium. By pulling its IDE and eight‑hundred‑thousand‑strong developer community into the stack, OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a full‑service dev teammate. One prompt could ask it to refactor your legacy module, spin up a workspace, and post a pull request without anyone leaving the chat.

Windsurf’s toolkit is model‑agnostic today, juggling GPT‑4o, Claude, Llama, and other rivals. How long that openness survives is the billion‑clone question, but the acquisition hands OpenAI a firehose of real‑world coding data and a direct shot at GitHub Copilot.

Step back and it looks like a land grab for the entire software workflow: search, generation, testing, and deployment, all compressed into one conversation. Give it a few sprints and ChatGPT might run your stand‑up and write the demo script before your coffee cools.

Wonder how long before it asks to commit straight to main?

TRENDING DISCUSSIONS

To vibe code or not to vibe code

Parth Ahir dropped a question that got folks thinking: if AI makes it easy to build with vibes instead of code, how do you figure out who’s actually good?

Some say hiring will shift toward measuring creativity—less “solve this algorithm” and more “can you steer the AI toward something that works?” Others aren’t ready to ditch the old ways, arguing that even vibe coding needs a solid foundation under the hood.

It’s a short post, but it cracks open a big debate. If you’ve ever wondered what happens to interviews when everyone’s got a copilot, this one’s worth jumping into.

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