Productivity hack for devs

gm winners! Welcome back to another fine edition of the Leaderboard. The newsletter where we break down the products you really should know about. In today's digest: Podcasts for developers, an AI that wants to take over your computer, and is that morning coffee really doing much? Let's dive in.

GitPodcast: Generate podcasts to help you understand a GitHub repo.

I really love Notebook LM but not a fan of it's current upload and resource structure. GitPodcast is kinda like NotebookLM but explicitly for GitHub repos. You'll get a podcast show with two hosts who explore the Repo, the function of whatever is being developed and even the files and what each file does. The explanation is cool but it still needs work, it credits the wrong developer and needs to be able to fine-tune the conversation for more (or less) experience devs. Overall, it's a novel idea that I'd love to see evolve.

Symphony: An OS where AI controls keyboard and mouse

Symphony feels like the future of laziness, and I mean that in the best way. It takes over your computer—clicking, typing, and navigating—so you don’t have to. Need a spreadsheet filled or a presentation whipped up? Symphony’s got it. It’s built on Ubuntu with KDE Plasma and works in the cloud, letting you switch between desktop and phone (though it stubbornly insists you start on a computer). It’s the kind of tool that makes you wonder how much more of your life you can hand over to AI—and honestly, I’m here for it.

Coffee Commit: Tracks your caffeine to GitHub commit ratio

I’m not a developer, so I wouldn’t get much use out of Coffee Commit specifically, but I love the idea of fun little productivity trackers like this. As a bonus, this one doubles as an easy personal biohacking experiment. What amount of caffeine induces maximal output? (And then, as a secondary question, is that output actually any good?)