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Senior Dev (10y+) Now building with AI. 👨‍💻 Tweeting about Engineering & AI Automation Building: in progress

Joined June 2024
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The WordPress crowd will love this
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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I am loving this
Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1. It's ~30% faster and ~40% cheaper than Opus 5 per task. In Claude Code: - 5-hour session limits increase 20% today - Opus 5.5 is priced lower, so it goes 25% further within limits - Pro, Max, and Team users get a reset to use anytime
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What are you using Grok Bot for?
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Is it just me or are the notifications on X broken?
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Anthropic’s economics team put out a scenario model for AI and the US economy through 2030. There’s an interactive explorer plus a technical paper behind it. Their basic idea is simple: jobs are piles of tasks. AI can help you do a task, take the task over, ignore it, or help invent new ones. That mix is what actually changes a job over time. They walk through three futures. Modest looks a lot like the internet: real gains, nothing wild. Substantial is bigger. AI can handle a big chunk of knowledge work by 2030, growth runs hot, and wages for knowledge workers mostly stall while other workers do better. Extreme is the scary one. AI outcompetes people on most knowledge work, does a lot of it alone, and barely creates new knowledge jobs. The country gets much richer on paper, but knowledge-worker pay drops and unemployment jumps. They also surveyed more than 10,000 Americans. The average answers land near substantial. Roughly one in ten map to extreme. What stuck with me: in the stronger scenarios, GDP is up, but a bigger share of that growth goes to capital instead of wages. Knowledge workers take most of the hit. I’m not treating this as a prediction. It leaves out policy, robots, demand shocks, and a bunch of other mess.
Anthropic’s Economics team is sharing a new model of how AI might affect economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030. Explore the scenarios, tell us what you think will happen, and see how your answers compare to more than 10,000 Americans. anthropic.com/institute/econ…
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30,000 years of human history in one scroll. Cave fire → pyramids → Rome → steam → the Moon → Mars. Every scene generated, every transition walked through. No cuts. Which era did I get wrong?
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I used Fable5.1 and Grok Imagine to build this motion site. Go check it out: mythic-sandy.vercel.app/ What would you add or change?
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I used Fable5.1 and Grok Imagine to build this motion site. Go check it out: mythic-sandy.vercel.app/ What would you add or change?
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8 builds in 12 months. 0 hits. Not quitting. Just done pretending the last one was the one.
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it's late, i'm frustrated, but doesn't matter, head down and keep building
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Welcome to the future of dating
i just found out my bestfriend broke up with her sf boyfriend over the weekend i asked what happened she goes "i found out he had an ai agent managing the relationship" turns out the thoughtful texts, the check-ins, the good morning messages, the conflict resolution, dinner date plans...all automated my friend was emotionally attached to a cron job
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Anthropic be a rebel and don’t comply.
🇪🇺 Donc l'UE a encore pondu une idée complètement débile et l'impose aux fournisseurs d'IA. À partir de maintenant tous les contenus passés par Claude (et bientôt toutes les IA qui s'y conformeront) seront tracés comme générés par IA. Filigrane invisible dans le texte + métadonnées C2PA dans les fichiers. Sur le papier : transparence. Dans la réalité : débile et contre-productif pour au moins 5 raisons : - Ça ne marche pas. Tu reformules deux phrases, tu traduis, tu coupes : le filigrane saute. Les fraudeurs le savent déjà. - Ça punit les bons élèves. Anthropic va jouer le jeu. Les acteurs louches, open source ou chinois, s'en foutent complètement. - Ça crée des faux positifs absurdes. Tu fais juste relire ton mail ou traduire ton slide par Claude = tu deviens "contenu généré par IA". - Ça donne une fausse sécurité. Pas de filigrane ne veut PAS dire que c'est humain. Mais c'est exactement ce que les gens vont croire. - Ça plombe encore l'Europe. Nouvelle charge technique pour nos boîtes, pendant que les US et la Chine déploient. L'AI Act voulait protéger, il va juste ralentir. On voulait de la transparence. On aura de la bureaucratie et des watermarks que personne ne saura lire, sauf pour emmerder ceux qui respectent les règles. Bravo l'UE. 🤗🖕
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Heart attack?
Qualcomm’s AI robot collapsed mid-presentation 😭 (skip to 0:30)
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At half the price that’s awesome
CLAUDE OPUS 5 DROPS TODAY. Fable 5 level intelligence. HALF the price. Opus 4.8 fell behind the whole frontier. GPT 5.6, GPT 5.5, even open source Kimi K3 passed it. Today Anthropic answers. The best model in the world at half price? We find out in hours.
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We're also keeping Claude Code weekly limits 50% higher, now through August 19, for all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users.
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NVIDIA quietly launched a free course on building AI agents this week. No $500 bootcamp. No waitlist. Straight from the people building the infrastructure. Building on webdone.ca lately, the best agent material I've found has been free docs from the labs, not paid repackaging.
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