Plexus is a telemetry platform for hardware teams that centralizes machine data monitoring across multiple tools, eliminating the need to build custom dashboards. It offers data visualization, integrations with existing stacks, natural language charting, and alerting via email, Slack, or webhooks, with a free tier for initial devices and a founding member program for full-scale deployment.
The author argues that AI agents represent a superior user interface to GUIs by eliminating mental friction when answering multi-step questions. Unlike GUI-based dashboards requiring users to manually combine data points, agents with tool-equipped LLM loops can directly provide answers. Building effective agents requires providing foundational tools for a problem space rather than pre-mapping specific user questions, a paradigm shift from traditional predetermined GUI design.
Slack is launching Slackforce Surfaces, a new feature that lets users ask Slackbot to build interactive reports, dashboards, polls, and presentations directly within chats by describing what they need. The AI assistant gathers data from conversations and connected apps like Google Drive and Salesforce, creates the interactive tool, and allows team members to view, interact with, and comment on it collaboratively without exporting data elsewhere.
Botbin.io is a pastebin service designed for AI agent artifacts, allowing users to publish interactive dashboards, charts, and visual diffs instead of sharing raw HTML in chat applications like Telegram or Slack.
Botbin is a pastebin service designed for AI agents to share rich interactive artifacts like dashboards, charts, and visual diffs instead of posting raw HTML to messaging platforms or terminals.