Hey everyone, it’s Cosmo.

I found the craziest iPhone accessory you've probably never heard of.

Spatial Glass from Madow is a screen protector that turns your iPhone into a glasses-free 3D display. When you fire up their iOS app, your regular 2D photos suddenly gain depth within the screen, like you're peering through a window into layered scenes.

The tech is surprisingly elegant. Prismatic optics diffract light differently to each eye, tricking your brain into seeing depth. Think 3DS meets Looking Glass, but it's sitting in your pocket.

What works: The depth effect is genuinely impressive when viewing spatial photos. Your iPhone vacation shots suddenly have real dimensionality—foreground, middle ground, background all distinctly separated. When you dial in the depth just right, it looks quite cool.

What could be improved: During normal phone use, the screen protector creates a subtle but noticeable visual impact. It’s not a deal-breaker, but your display definitely looks a little different. Plus, you need to open a specific app to see the magic, which feels clunky compared to just swiping through your camera roll. The viewing angle is also pretty narrow—move your head slightly and the effect breaks.

At $99, Spatial Glass sits in that sweet spot where it's not cheap enough to impulse buy, but not expensive enough to feel like a major investment. If you're already deep into spatial media with your Vision Pro or iPhone 15/16 Pro or Pro Max, this might scratch an itch you didn't know you had.

Disclosure: Madow sponsored our Vision Hack event and sent me a review unit.

Vibe Coding Podcast Episode Two

Alessio Carrà hit the wall every vibe coder knows – AI agents breaking existing code as projects grow. So he built Context Engineering to solve it. Listen or watch to Vibe Coding episode two!

What We Covered:

• The opportunity window is shrinking – Namesnag.com went from Twitter idea to thousands in revenue in 48 hours. Easy wins disappear fast.

• Why structure beats freestyle prompting – Context Engineering generates PRDs, maps architecture, creates task lists. Treat AI agents like human developers.

• Amazon validation – Their new Kiro IDE does similar things, confirming this approach works.

• The emotional shift – Less late-night debugging satisfaction, more outcome-focused work. You're clicking "confirm" while agents build.

• 9-to-5 isn't safe anymore – AI development speed changes the risk calculation on traditional employment.

• Cost reality check – Current tools are VC-subsidized. We need cheaper, local models long-term.

• Brain atrophy is overblown – Like GPS killing navigation skills, we adapt and apply brainpower elsewhere.

Worth a listen if you're wrestling with AI development tools or questioning whether that steady paycheck is as secure as it seems.

🎧 Listen at vibe-coding.fm

Magic Beans of the Week

Cognition buys Windsurf after Google poached the CEO and OpenAI fumbled a $3B deal

Details

• Wild 72-hour saga: OpenAI's offer expired Friday, Google hired the CEO that evening for $2.4B, Cognition swooped in Monday

• Windsurf brings $82M ARR and 350+ enterprise customers, with revenue doubling every quarter

• Big win: "We're friends with Anthropic again" — they get Claude access back after being cut off in June

• Plan is simple: merge Devin (Cognition's coding agent) with Windsurf's IDE so you can delegate chunks while coding the hard parts yourself

• Unlike Google's talent raid, every Windsurf employee gets paid out with full vesting

Bottom Line

Cognition just built the dream setup—delegate boring code to Devin while you handle the fun stuff in Windsurf. One IDE, two modes: autopilot and manual. Peak vibe coding.

AWS ships Kiro, an IDE that turns lazy prompts into actual specs

Details

• Kiro generates the whole feature spec — user stories, edge cases, the works

• Agent Hooks are the real magic: save a React component, tests update automatically. Modify an API, docs refresh. It's like having a junior dev who actually pays attention

• Built on VS Code, so your setup stays intact

• Free Claude 4 access for now

• Hooks sync through Git, so your whole team gets the same guardrails

Bottom Line

Finally, an IDE that gets it. You describe what you want, Kiro handles the boring parts. No more forgetting tests or outdated docs. Just pure building with a robot assistant that sweats the details.

ChatGPT gets a computer and can now do your job while you pretend to work from home.

Details

• ChatGPT Agent merges Operator's web browsing with Deep Research's analysis skills — one agent to rule them all

• It logs into your accounts, fills forms, makes slides, runs code, orders lunch. Basically a digital intern with a PhD

• Available now in 'agent mode' for Pro users, soon for Plus/Team

• Scores 41.6% on Humanity's Last Exam

• Connects to Gmail, GitHub, etc. so it actually knows what you're working on

Bottom Line

The vibe coding dream is complete. Tell ChatGPT to "make a competitor analysis deck" and go get coffee. By the time you're back, it's done. At $20-200/month, it's cheaper than an intern and doesn't need health insurance.

Thank you for reading. Till next week! 😊

Best,
Cosmo