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🚀 AI Dash #2: Terminal AI, Auto QA, and Real Agents Rising

Fresh tools and workflows to speed up your builds: Gemini CLI for seamless coding, auto QA workflows, and how Dust’s agent stack is shaping enterprise AI.

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Dash Carter
July 03, 2025

👋 Hi Dashed,

Hope your build week is going strong! Today’s AI Dash brings you practical new tools you can implement today—from coding with AI in your terminal to instant QA for your projects—and a glimpse into how real agent stacks are scaling in the wild. Let’s jump in🚀 

Gemini CLI – AI coding & agent toolkit in your terminal
What it does: A command‑line interface powered by Google’s Gemini models. Write, debug, generate, and run code (even videos, research, DB access) directly from your terminal .
Why it matters: Simplifies dev workflows by bringing powerful multimodal AI into familiar environments—no need for GUI tools.
How to use it (3 steps):

  1. Install via pip/npm and authenticate your Gemini API key.

  2. Run commands like gemini explain foo.py to analyze code or gemini run “generate video…”.

  3. Automate tasks by scripting Gemini CLI into your dev pipeline.
    Link: [TechCrunch coverage]venturebeat.com+2techcrunch.com+2reddit.com+2

Mini Workflow

Auto QA with Zentester – Speed up testing from days to hours
Step 1: Connect your repo (GitHub/Bitbucket) to Zentester (by Zencoder).
Step 2: Use its AI agent to auto-generate test suites for new features.
Step 3: Run and review test results in your CI, fixing issues before release.
Why this is useful: Removes manual testing bottlenecks, enabling faster, more reliable releases 🚀

Quick AI News Byte

Dust hits $6M ARR; enterprise agents are maturing
Dust — an agentic AI platform — has grown to $6 million in annual recurring revenue, a sixfold jump versus last year. Its agents now orchestrate real actions across CRMs, GitHub issues, docs, with Anthropic’s Claude AI and enterprise-grade security in play techcrunch.com+15venturebeat.com+15techcrunch.com+15Insight: No longer just chatbots—AI agents are shaping up as full-stack workflow partners, unlocking more productivity and complexity for businesses.

That’s all for today’s AI Dash ⚡️

Which tool or workflow will you try first? Reply and let me know, or share what’s working for you so we can feature your build in a future issue! Let’s keep shipping and learning together.

Stay sharp,
Carter