Breadcrumb

Stefan Wintermeyer describes how his consulting business was built for decades on pull marketing: publishing books, articles, blog posts and talks to attract clients, which he compares to scattering breadcrumbs in a fairy-tale forest. He says this content-driven approach helped many people and drew customers to him over the years.

A new tool called Breadcrumb has launched, offering to record everything happening on a Mac and serve as a context manager for AI assistants. The tool, built by Innerloop Works, is aimed at people who want their AI tools to have access to their full working history on the machine. Early reactions on the developer community where it debuted have been modestly engaged, with interest centering on the privacy trade-offs and usefulness of continuous screen and activity capture for improving AI assistance.

A new developer tool called Breadcrumb has launched, offering Mac users a way to record everything happening on their machine and turn that history into context for AI assistants. The tool is presented as a 'context manager', aiming to give AI models relevant background from a user's actual activity rather than relying only on prompts. Response so far appears to be early, with discussion centring on privacy implications and how useful captured activity is for AI workflows.