Mike_Stewart

This is bigger news than it appears I’ve had early access to Sonnet 5.5 for a bit now and honestly at first I couldn’t tell the difference between this and Opus 5.5 It’s a fraction of the price of Opus, which already felt like you got an absurd amounts of usage out of for cheap It’s clear Anthropic has had some sort of breakthrough the last month The jump in intelligence, speed, and affordability of all their 5.5 models is maybe the biggest leap we’ve ever seen in AI You need to be using this model for all your standard, fastball down the center work With its speed and intelligence you’ll be shocked at how fast you get tasks done

Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀

MIT student asked a question earlier today that a lot of young founders are quietly wondering about: "Won’t the frontier labs just do everything?" Yes it's true that OAI/Ant are shipping at incredible pace, but it's quite easy to avoid their blast radius and build amazing startups: OpenAI is not going to build a cattle-herding drone, buy an old F-150 and drive from ranch to ranch like the founder of one of the fastest-growing YC W26 startups, Graze Mate. Anthropic is not going to integrate with dental insurance verification systems (Lance). Google is not going to navigate NATO procurement (Milliray). The value is in the last mile, not the model. Sales cycles require humans who understand the customer. And most importantly, the market is expanding, not shrinking: AI isn't cannibalizing the existing 1% software spend — it's unlocking the other 5-6% that was going to humans. That's a much bigger market for startups yet-to-be-founded than the one the labs are playing in. Now, what DOES seem risky? A thin UI layer on top of ChatGPT with no domain expertise; a general-purpose chatbot or assistant; or a product that gets obsolete when model capabilities improve. But — tools for specific industries; "full-stack" AI companies that actually are the service (AI law firm, AI accounting firm, AI uranium exploration company); or generally products where the customer doesn't want a tool but an outcome — are defensible ideas for startups.

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COPE councillor Sean Orr is proposing a 7% property tax hike for Vancouver homeowners, but it'd also be paired with a rebate for most. Hike targets higher-valued properties of $3+ million, multiple owners, and/or non-resident investors. #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/fair…

Ottawa's new insurance rules will: help affordability (as more applicants qualify) then hurt affordability (as prices adjust) then help affordability (as they spur building). 2 problems: 1. New supply takes longer than new demand 2. This may be net stimulative for prices.