Frances Diazon

Hello PH

We realised that people aren t really aware of what they can do with Local Panel; it s probably just being used to access the terminal easily or to manage files. However, Local Panel is much more than that, and we wondered what we could do to demonstrate this.

Honest question for this forum.

I save AI tool threads constantly. New model drops, someone's slick Cursor workflow, "10 tools that'll change everything." I open maybe one in twenty. And I still feel behind every single week.

Lately I think the problem isn't information, there's an ocean of it. The problem is that almost all of it tells you about AI instead of showing you. A thread describes a workflow. A launch video is scripted so everything works on the first try. None of it shows the real thing: the prompt someone throws away, the tool they reach for and why, the moment it breaks and how they dig out.

And that's the part that actually teaches you. Nobody got good at cooking from recipes or at chess from the rulebook. You get good watching people better than you do the real work.

a16z published a piece last week arguing that everything at work is being recorded, and that companies who build AI on top of that context layer will win.

Compelling thesis. But it mostly frames recordings as a memory and retrieval problem. I think the more interesting question is what people are actually doing with them beyond transcripts, summaries, and action items.

I've seen teams use recordings for onboarding, async decision reviews, even as a source of truth when things go sideways. But I'm curious what's happening in practice.

A few things I'd love to discuss with the community: