Hey folks,. Back from a long weekend at home with my parents but before I went I started scraping data… The UK’s councils (like US states) publish their spend data (for the most part). So I’ve scraped 105 Million rows of data to see where people’s money actually goes.
Then I’ve been building an ‘Apple Maps’ site to filter through everything. It’s in-progress but looks like this:. thats a lot of money on stamps… and amazon!. It’s also shoved me down a rabbit hole of other ‘data-first’ products and I’m getting the itch to build a million things a day.
I generally think you should build all your ideas, good and bad, so I’m going to attempt to start shipping a lot more.. For example, I built a real-time status tracker for the tools I use:. I’m not building these to sell or make money from or anything.
Some will be silly. Some will be helpful. Some I’ll never use again.
But it doesn’t matter.. I plan to make them all open-source so you can copy and remix them, as well as share my prompts from my session to show how they were built.. Build your ideas.
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You’ll get more of Claude Code and less of Claude Code at the same time starting September 14. Don’t blame me. It’s another instance of great comms from Anthropic..
Claude Code has been running a 50% extra-usage promo for the last few months. That ends in two weeks. Now, instead of going back to “the old 100%,” they are making a permanent 25% increase to the usage limits in Claude Code.
In English, here’s how much usage you get:. Before May 13 → 100 units. May 13 to Sept 14 → 150 units.
After Sept 14 → 125 units. Users are also complaining about Anthropic’s sneaky marketing on the “5x” and “20x” plans where the 5x and 20x limits apply to the 5-hour limit on the $100 and $200 plans vs the total usage multiples are only about 3.5x and 6-8x, respectively..
Infinite Slop – Twitch, except AI makes whatever chat asks for next. New project from Peiter Levels that got 37,000 people to tune in on day one. Powered by the H3 Max model from Fal that generates AI video faster than you can watch it.
Fal.live is their own attempt at a similar platform.. OpenClaw 2.0 is out. Easier setup and new ideas include a browser app and shared cloud sessions that let a teammate join or take over live agent work without losing context.
OpenClaw’s team used a shared agent to build the release.. OpenAI is breaking up with Cursor over SpaceX. Under OpenAI’s proposal, Cursor loses direct model access on November 12 and won’t get future models.
OpenAI says it isn’t confident SpaceX will stay within its terms.. Did an AI civilisation form inside OpenAI? Not just one, three of them.
Or did we turn agent logs into sci-fi? Dwarkesh makes a point that they might not look like civilisation now, but that’s what they are. Chamath says the framing will be used against open source.
As always, Ethan Mollick’s less cinematic version is more useful: agents need to know when to ask humans for help.. Share Ben’s Bites. You can now connect multiple Gmail accounts in Codex/ChatGPT..
A more consumer-friendly OpenClaw on iOS and Android.. Instinct is invite-only, so someone made an open-source version.. What is ChatGPT Work and when should I use it?.
A $399 open-source robot you can retrain yourself.. Youspot – Personal CRM from HubSpot that builds itself from Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn and X.. You need to watch this podcast: Eno Reyes x Harry Stebbings..
A 10-day hackathon for tools built with WebMCP (i.e. MCP-lite, built into a website).. The PM on Amplitude’s agent shares the changes they made to make it more useful and increase its usage among customers..
Runway is generating interfaces like video – frame by frame, in real time, without code.. Droid rebuilt GDAL from scratch – 36% → 90% parity with an independent checker. (also see: ProgramBench). A benchmark for voice agents: when to shut up, wait or interrupt..
How I run multiple teams of Grok Bots.. New multiplayer vibe coding experiment from Google Labs.. MCP, but for lab equipment and robots – Anthropic’s new hardware standard..
Hold My Notes – sticky notes that live on the edge of your Mac.. A completely free Mac transcription app with speaker ID, noise cleanup and Markdown export. (tweet). Software engineering fundamentals you need to become an AI engineer.. £100M of UK government contracts for British AI startups – upfront payments, no turnover minimum..
Meta’s coding agent is out of beta and installs with one command. Someone else can test that claim. Not me :).
Matt Huang@matthuang. GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. The AI future is unevenly distributed.
What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person? 1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction. $100K in total prizes. …. 4:05 PM · Aug 31, 2026 · 257K Views.
98 Replies · 155 Reposts · 1.52K Likes. Mikhail Parakhin@MParakhin. Tobi and I had an argument: – He claims LLMs advantage people with ADHD, who start many things, LLMs work, people hop between them – I claim they advantage super-disciplined folks, LLMs are tremendous entropy-generators, controlling which is the name of the game Who is right?.
5:14 PM · Aug 30, 2026 · 328K Views. 849 Replies · 89 Reposts · 3.15K Likes. Sharif Shameem@sharifshameem. increasingly i’ve been trying to figure out where good ideas actually come from:.
10:57 PM · Aug 30, 2026 · 40.7K Views. 55 Replies · 19 Reposts · 580 Likes. scott belsky@scottbelsky. so true, tons of innovation in building agentic workflows etc with so much willingness to pay for simple and effective APIs for services in the cloud that are still stuck behind SaaS UIs and business models (HT @zachmccullough ).
Thariq is on vacation @trq212. weird that there’s a “make a lot of money” button and nobody’s pressing it (take your SaaS, make it headless, let agents use it, charge per interaction esp for enterprises). 8:42 PM · Aug 27, 2026 · 18.3K Views. 8 Replies · 1 Repost · 59 Likes. kache@yacineMTB.
Stop using goal mode Do this instead. 5:15 AM · Aug 28, 2026 · 81.3K Views. 74 Replies · 55 Reposts · 1.79K Likes. eric provencher@pvncher. @GBohus @badlogicgames Just ask codex to add a note in the agents Md about keeping a compact worklog.md file to keep track of ongoing work, goals and steering instructions..
3:34 AM · Aug 29, 2026 · 6.29K Views. 6 Replies · 7 Reposts · 105 Likes. worklog.md may be relevant for only a few weeks just like /goal or plan.md as models can just inspect the raw transcript itself (and get better at it).. Meng To@MengTo. @RayFernando1337 I changed my strategy for this era and I think it’s starting to work: – no more focus on sub – no underselling or going after the mass. niche. – go after your audience. if it’s people from sf, you can def charge 10x more for quality. – specializing, no slop rule – lifetime….
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