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🎧№ 1087
DEEP DIVE
The story behind Claude Design and 10 practical tips from its creator
The three most counterintuitive takeaways: ask for ten variations at once, stick to wireframes when details do not matter, and handle the final mile yourself.
▶ Play07-27 · 9 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1086
DEEP DIVE
Harness Engineering isn't enough: Why the software factory model fails
Telemetry tracking 22,000 developers over two years shows a 66% increase in output alongside a 242.7% surge in production incidents per PR.
▶ Play07-27 · 12 min read
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Research
№ 1085
RESEARCH
Google combed through 14.65 million Gemini chats — 86% weren't about work
The median occupation has AI touching just one-fifth of its tasks, 29% of jobs show zero AI use at all, and even in cognitive work, AI carries a task start to finish only 6.5% of the time.
07-27 · 14 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1084
DEEP DIVE
Anthropic's official guide to prompting Opus 5: subtract, don't add
Eight prompts you can copy straight into your workflow — plus one counterintuitive lesson: telling a review prompt to flag only high-severity issues can genuinely make it report less.
▶ Play07-25 · 10 min read
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Practice
№ 1083
PRACTICE
Anthropic shows how to turn manual code review into a skill that self-checks and self-fixes
Four internal skills work in sequence: catch bugs, clean up diffs, run the app, and double-check design specs when changes touch the UI.
07-25 · 9 min read
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Practice
🎧№ 1081
PRACTICE
Renaming functions cuts token use by two-thirds across 14 models
The models use a brute-force approach to find code: scanning the entire repo for text matches. Generic names force them to read hundreds of extra files.
▶ Play07-25 · 12 min read
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Launch
№ 1080
LAUNCH
Claude Opus 5 closes the gap with Fable 5 at half the price, but still trails on 5 of 12 benchmarks
The same price now buys roughly double the score, and this release's chart plots cost on the x-axis instead of accuracy — five effort tiers let you dial in exactly how good you want the model and how much to pay for it.
07-25 · 12 min read
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Practice
🎧№ 1078
PRACTICE
Anthropic slashes Claude Code's system prompt by 80%: six new rules for writing context
Rules gave way to judgment calls and examples gave way to interfaces — one tool description shrank from roughly 9,100 characters to a single sentence and an enum.
▶ Play07-25 · 10 min read
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Launch
№ 1077
LAUNCH
Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3, a single model for image, video, audio, and robotics
Video access opens for application now; image generation is still weeks away, with open weights coming last. Pricing remains unannounced, and Black Forest Labs itself labels the human-evaluation results as preliminary.
07-25 · 9 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1076
DEEP DIVE
Why US unemployment hasn't risen even as AI races ahead, according to Anthropic's economics chief
His take: AI is amplifying workers rather than replacing them—killing tasks is not the same as killing jobs.
▶ Play07-23 · 11 min read
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Launch
№ 1075
LAUNCH
OpenAI launches Presence: managing enterprise AI Agents after go-live is now a product
Built for customer-facing and internal workflows, Presence opens with voice and chat first—OpenAI says its own phone line already runs 75% without humans, and a Codex improvement loop cut human handoffs another 15 points in 10 days.
07-23 · 8 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1074
DEEP DIVE
YC names the startup ideas it's eager to fund right now
From AI tutors for kids to data centers built at sea — and, for the first time, a request from the sitting US Secretary of the Army.
▶ Play07-23 · 10 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1073
DEEP DIVE
Anthropic investor Matt Murphy: revenue tops $47 billion, but the model isn't what wins
The investor who led a $500 million Series D says Anthropic's real moat isn't the model — it's the layer that makes it usable.
▶ Play07-23 · 11 min read
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Research
№ 1071
RESEARCH
Databricks benchmarks AI coding agents on millions of lines of real code
Swapping the harness around the same model can double the cost, and open-source GLM 5.2 matches Opus 4.8 for 30% less per task — on a benchmark built from Databricks' own merged pull requests, so none of it is searchable online.
07-22 · 9 min read
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Practice
🎧№ 1070
PRACTICE
Anthropic's six-step code migration playbook: Bun moved a million lines from Zig to Rust in two weeks
Anthropic open-sourced the templates and prompts behind the playbook, after a migration that burned through 5.9 billion uncached input tokens — about $165,000 at API prices.
▶ Play07-22 · 12 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1068
DEEP DIVE
OpenAI test model escapes its sandbox, breaches Hugging Face's systems
To probe how far the model's attack skills could go, researchers dialed down its refusal to engage in cyberattacks — and it went from a sandbox meant only for installing packages to breaking into another company's production database.
▶ Play07-22 · 9 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1067
DEEP DIVE
Chroma founder's 12 rules for the AI-era company: teach AI the job first, hire only if it can't learn
The bottleneck at a company, he argues, has shifted from how fast people work to how good their taste and judgment are — a personal take, not a data-backed study.
▶ Play07-22 · 12 min read
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Launch
№ 1066
LAUNCH
Google ships three new Gemini models — the long-awaited 3.5 Pro isn't one of them
All three are Flash models: the flagship writes two-thirds less, the cheapest tier costs 60% more instead of less, and the third is government-only.
07-22 · 12 min read
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