Happy Thursday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: we shipped Terminal UI in Spectrum for testing agents directly from your editor, wrapped our Pho-ton event with 400+ signups, announced two NYC events co-hosted with a16z Techweek, and made our first big launch on Silicon Mania.

Feature Updates

Terminal UI in Spectrum

Test agents directly from your editor in an async TUI chat interface, no context switching required.

• Async chat with agents from inside your editor

• Reactions, replies, and inline image rendering included

• Built for the way agent developers actually work

Read the blog post

Demo Video

Community Highlights

Pho-ton: Free Pho for Everyone Wrap

We took over the Luma SF calendar with free pho and good agent talk at Corgi Cafe.

• Featured on the Luma SF calendar

• 400+ signups, 100 invites sent

• Real conversations with builders shipping agents

See the Details on X

Community Highlights

Spectrum Launch on Silicon Mania

Photon's first big launch landed on Silicon Mania, one of the rising entertaining tech media.

• More progress shipping soon

See the Details on X

Upcoming Events

Photon X a16z Techweek

Our first time in New York, co-hosted with a16z Techweek. One thesis: agents belong where conversation already happens.

• iMessage Museum: a one-week exhibit on the history of interfaces, from punch cards to agents in your DMs. Pick up a phone, text an agent, watch the thread project onto the gallery wall. RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/6aXIYVxHeE8fyhfRCyNe

• Free Pho for Everyone, Agents in Your DMs: 50 seats, free pho, no panels, no pitch decks. RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/ed2EFWip0do9OuYmVPZI

• Want to co-host or sponsor? Reply to this email.

See the Details

Upcoming Events

Build Matcha & Code Hackathon

Touch grass, drink matcha, ship agents. An in-person build day in San Francisco on May 2nd, 2026, powered by the full agent stack.

• Co-hosted by Photon, GMI Cloud, PixVerse, HydraDB, and Sky9 Capital

• Workshops, lunch served rolling, live demos

Luma Page

We're Hiring

Objective-C Engineer

We're a small team doing big things:
and we need someone who can go deep on the Mac stack.

• Strong background in Objective-C

• Deep experience building for macOS

• Skilled in reverse engineering

• Ships clean, high-quality code only

• Uses AI agents to 10x their productivity

View the Job Listing

DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who loves working close to the metal: operating systems, networks, power, and the physical reality of data centers.

• Own the tooling, automation, and infrastructure powering our products

• Manage and optimize fleets of macOS machines

• Operate and evolve our AWS infrastructure with an emphasis on security and reliability

• Design and debug network topologies and services

• Contribute to the vision of building and running our own data center from zero View the Job Listing

View the Job Listing

That's all for this week.

We believe agents should reach everyone:
and we're building every day to make it happen.

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