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February 17th, 2026

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Turn moments into songs

gm legends, happy Tuesday.

Mozart turns little scraps of your day into actual songs on your phone, Claude DevTools lets you see what your coding agent is really doing instead of trusting a spinner, and Figr sits on top of your product to call out UX issues before users do.

Songs on the move

Mozart for iOS lets you turn a quick idea or memory into a full song on your phone. You can start from text, an image, or a video, then tweak the track with simple edits and wrap it in a music video made from your own photos and clips, ready to share wherever you live online.

🔥 Our Take: Turning a stray thought into a tiny song is a very fun upgrade over yet another blurry photo or story. This lands in a nice middle spot between messing around with voice notes and opening a full DAW, which makes it way easier to actually capture moments without turning it into a whole project.

FROM THE FORUMS

Studying when AI does the homework

The thread starts from a simple worry: if AI can already explain anything, write your essays, debug your code, and even help solo founders ship products, what does studying actually mean in a few years? The post points at CS enrollment dropping while AI degrees and “AI literacy” requirements explode, and asks whether school becomes mostly about learning the basics and how to use the tools, or if we need a completely different idea of what real learning looks like in an AI world.

Stop coding blind

Claude DevTools is a local desktop app that shows what Claude Code is actually doing instead of hiding everything behind a single status line. It tails your Claude logs and surfaces live diffs, token usage by category, sub agent trees, and alerts when it touches things like env files or API keys, all on your own machine.

🔥 Our Take: Watching an agent run with no idea what it just changed is not it. Having live diffs, token stats, and flags when it brushes against sensitive files is exactly the kind of boring detail that makes this feel safe to use every day.

Think through the UX

Figr is an AI product partner for PMs and designers that starts from your real product instead of a blank canvas. You can parse a live app with a Chrome extension, pull in Figma with your design tokens, add docs and analytics, and it maps flows, surfaces edge cases, and runs UX reviews. When you ask for something new, it generates A/B ideas and prototypes that match your design language.

🔥 Our Take: I like that this is not preatending screens appear out of thin air. It goes after the awkward middle bit where you are arguing about flows, empty states, and weird edge cases that usually only show up in production. If it can reliably catch that stuff before handoff, that is a big upgrade over another “pretty mockup in 30 seconds” tool.

February 17th, 2026

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