Rami's Readings #143 - 👋 Startupfest Montréal
Sharing Startupfest Montréal and the latest on AI, LLMs, Spec-Driven Development, Claude Code, AI Services, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #143 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers
Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami's Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Product Byte, and The VC Corner. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.
👋 I’ll be a Mentor at Startupfest Montréal!
I am excited to be returning to Montréal (my hometown) this summer as a mentor at Startupfest.
Startupfest is one of the premier events in the Montréal startup ecosystem. It’s been around for longer than my career in tech. It’s also an excellent excuse to fly up to the city and experience our glorious patio summers!
Looking forward to connecting with founders and entrepreneurs building the next generation of AI startups, sharing lessons from scaling products from zero to global scale, and contributing back to the startup and tech community that launched my career.
If you’ll be attending Startupfest or will be in Montreal around the July 8 - 10 and would like to connect, feel free to reply to this newsletter. I also have a 15% discount code available for tickets.
🤖 AI Reads
bytedance / deer-flow: An Open-Source SuperAgent Harness That Researches, Codes, and Creates
Notes: Interesting project from ByteDance. Similar to OpenClaw, Autoresearch, and other clones.
LLM Architecture Gallery
Notes: Very cool poster from Sebastian Raschka.
I spent way too much time Claude Coding this past week… Just a short interjection, none of the spec frameworks, skills, plugins, etc. that I am sharing solve the problem of “taste”. In other words, what should be built when anything can be built.
Fission-AI / OpenSpec: Spec-Driven Development (SDD) for AI Coding Assistants
Notes: I shared in a previous newsletter, but worth re-sharing. Lighter than Spec Kit.
github / spec-kit: Toolkit to Help You Get Started With Spec-Driven Development
Notes: Supports almost all the coding agents (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc).
bmad-code-org / BMAD-METHOD: Breakthrough Method for Agile Ai Driven Development
Notes: More opinionated.
obra / superpowers: An Agentic Skills Framework & Software Development Methodology That Works
Notes: Neat collection of skills.
obra / double-shot-latte: Claude Code Plugin That Automatically Evaluates Whether Claude Should Continue Working
Notes: Claude for Claude.
garrytan / gstack : Garry Tan’s Exact Claude Code Setup
Notes: Garry Tan runs YC.
777genius / claude-notifications-go
Notes: Customize Claude Code notifications.
💼 Business Reads
Services: The New Software
Notes: From Sequoia Capital, an excellent read for all founders. If you were to only pick one read this week, pick this one.
AI Startup Moonshot Snags Funds at $18 Billion Valuation
Notes: Kimi K2.5 is pretty good.
🔀 Other Reads
Hammerspoon
Notes: Much much more flexible than AppleScript.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.