008 — The Agent, Avial, and Corporate Chronicles

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Microsoft's annual developer conference opened in San Francisco yesterday — and tucked inside the keynote was an announcement that will quietly change the way hundreds of millions of people work. By the end of this year, Agent Mode becomes the default way you open Word, Excel, and Outlook. Not an opt-in. The default.Which raises a question worth sitting with: for thirty years,software has been a thing we use. It is now becoming a thing that does the task for us, while we watch. Convenient — until you realise the muscle of doing the task yourself is the muscle that made you good at your job in the first place.Plus — Anthropic reportedly filing for an IPO at $965B, GitHubCopilot's pay-per-token shift, avial (the Kerala dish that handles everything in your fridge), and a poem about office life.— TODAY'S RECIPE —Avial. 4-5 mixed vegetables (carrot, beans, pumpkin, drumstick, raw banana, yam — any combination), cut into finger-length batons. Cook in a wide pan with ½ cup water, ½ tsp turmeric, salt, covered, ~8 min. Grind ½ coconut + 2 green chillies + 1 tsp cumin into a coarse paste. Fold paste + a few tbsp curd into the vegetables. Off heat: 1 tsp coconut oil + crushed curry leaves. Eat with rice.— TODAY'S POEM —"Corporate Chronicles" — from Fifty Rooms of Silence by Linu Conil, published by Romanson, with an endorsement from Dr. Shashi Tharoor.📖Get the book on Amazon:https://www.amazon.in/Fifty-Rooms-Silence-Linu-Conil/dp/9348314556—Six Minutes of Silence is hosted by Linu Conil and produced byThe Bandrum Circuit in Trivandrum, Kerala. New episodes every weekday at 7 AM IST.Got a thought? Write to [email protected]

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