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โWhisperflow costs money. So, I use Spokenly and Spokenly you can also connect with a local model.โ
โI made this into a product. It's called open paper. You can look it up open paper.dev.โ
โYou know, a couple weeks ago, he was thinking about canceling his chat tot subscription, but now he's wondering, you know, maybe I should just keep chatbt and instead use OpenAI models instead.โ
โThe next company I was going to mention is Factory which is another coding company and and I think you look at at the harness they've done there.โ
โSecond, Claude 4.5 is amazing. It's just out. I've only had it a few days, but I suspect it will have a very low rate of hallucination.โ
โI'd undoubtedly choose to use Solid Works.โ
โI first put you and your channel in my newsletter, Five Bullet Friday.โ
โThis paper presents the NCCLX collective communication framework, developed at Meta, engineered to optimize performance across the full LLM lifecycle, from the synchronous demands of large-scale trainโฆโ
โFolks who don't know you, they may know you through your Otter test, which has also been very fun to follow over the years. Tell us what that is because the it's gotten it's gotten quite impressive reโฆโ
โThen you have Claude came out with Co-work this week. Incredibly powerful. People are kind of losing their minds over it. I've been playing with it for the last 40 hours. Truly impressive.โ
โSo the the product that just came out recently that everyone's kind of going crazy over is the latest iteration of clawed code uh which is uh powered by uh anthropics uh opus 4.5 model which seems to โฆโ
โSo the the product that just came out recently that everyone's kind of going crazy over is the latest iteration of clawed code uh which is uh powered by uh anthropics uh opus 4.5 model which seems to โฆโ
โGet a Claude co-worker account. Spend an hour talking to it about what you do every day.โ
โSo, Bedrock Agent Core now has uh out of beta or pre-release or whatever they call it, preview uh evaluations, which was really cool. So now you can essentially evaluate the agents and their responsesโฆโ
โthe the next one uh another thing that we've talked a lot about is the DevOp Dev Ops agent. It's now in GA.โ
โthere's the segue into the next agent that we've talked about a lotier agent announced at uh reinvent was the security agent and >> again this confuses me a little bit because they very specifically sโฆโ
โI want to start off with a disclaimer that okay, Docker sandboxes we just launched last week. MCP toolkit is not yet integrated with that sandbox product. Okay. Um it's just not quite there yet. Um stโฆโ
โMCP toolkit is not yet integrated with that sandbox product. Okay. Um it's just not quite there yet. Um stay tuned. It's coming soon. Um just hasn't happened yet. So what I'm going to be showing you โฆโ
โI want to start off with a disclaimer that okay, Docker sandboxes we just launched last week. MCP toolkit is not yet integrated with that sandbox product. Okay. Um it's just not quite there yet. Um stโฆโ
โLIIA is a music generation model um that creates not just music but also audio or also lyrics um and any number of languages.โ
โWe actually have so we just rolled out the official box CLI. Thank you for the liking the tweet on that. I I've been I I used it. I have some feedback.โ
โI actually gave my Nano Claw its own credit card came in.โ
โul.live is his website, but it has a number of tools you might be interested in, including upgrade to human 3.0. I think this is kind of uh what he's been focused on lately.โ
โIf you want to imagine a specific application here, imagine getting a hold of you know a B200 server to run say the new Quen 3.5 \"like\" 36 billion parameter mixture of experts model.โ
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โThere's this library that exists called PyTorch Lightning, which is sort of a level up above PyTorch that says, hey, if you're going to do a standard training loop, that's easy, just use this. We'll tโฆโ
โNVIDIA has one called NVLink, which is a fantastic piece of technology.โ
โBecause we were running in AWS, they had standardized on a different one called EFA. So we plugged that in and that was a huge bottleneck we removed.โ
โI'd get my computer science degree. I'd get really good with uh Cursor or Windsurf or Continue or any of the coding platforms that use AI and then I might go get a knowledge work job and just intimateโฆโ
โPlacer's location intelligence platform turns foot [music] traffic into real strategy, giving you near real-time insights into market share, cross shopping trends, and trade areas for any location in โฆโ
โWe're Leaving Delaware, And We Think You Should Consider Leaving Tooโ
โput together a filing folder 2026 and as tax documents go in or you get receipts from charitable start filling that folder so it's a little bit easierโ
โSwix founder of late in space host co-host of latent space founder of small AI the newsletter founder of AI engineer summitโ
โSwix founder of late in space host co-host of latent space founder of small AI the newsletter founder of AI engineer summitโ
โUh and I think they're also compromising light LLM and exios and all these things.โ
โYeah. I I I mean Mythos is announced it's okay you know like you can have it great >> we as people can have it if you're a company a big company yeah we're going to talk about mythos folks on tropics โฆโ
โOpus's biggest brother that's very good at cyber security that freaks people out and we're going to definitely like mention this uh in in a moment.โ
โCedense 2 is available on uh replicate and in the US now. Cedence 2 full cedance with video uploaded and everything.โ
โAnother model is being tested right now that's also like making waves called Happy Horse. It's a mystery number one's video model.โ
โOpenCloud released a version 20264.5 with Dreaming.โ
โit's very very very flexible and I I highly recommend thatโ
โPlease if you're not already using the product try it out. Uh try out Loop give us your feedback.โ
โUm, you can actually start using it today if you are an existing Brain Trust user or you sign up for the product. There's a feature flag that you can just flip on called Loop and start using it right โฆโ
โWe present DiffuMask, a diffusion-based framework integrating hierarchical shot-level and token-level pruning signals, that enables rapid and parallel prompt pruning via iterative mask prediction.โ
โNotion is notion with AI is 20 bucks a month. The basic is 10 if if everything ties and private companies have an incentive to be honest but but polish the numbers a little bit, right? But but ... Butโฆโ
โI suspect as the year goes on, we're going to see the same thing at Slack because most folks haven't used it. We're on it. The AI version of Slack for certain use cases is so much better.โ
โstuff like rock key, I think for example, which is like a key version of it, uh, is the best way to go.โ
โthe anthropic AI security agents which I've basically used in Replet's very very good and it also makes sense as we rush we're going to leak source code data PII right it was I don't know whether it'sโฆโ
โI use one password. There are many of others out there that are just as good.โ
โWe have a punch card system as something that I, you know, was very impressed by Warren Buffett's view of the world, which is, you know, any use of you is an investment. It's a punch and you can't getโฆโ
โSo, I bought this thing recommended by a friend of mine, Nick Norris, who's also been on the podcast, former Navy Seal, called the Nug. And the Nug is it's about the size of like a gigantic bar of soaโฆโ
โI'm using the Katsu C4. I'm using the C4 cuz I'm like I don't want another app. Oh, I got the app. That's nice. No.โ
โThat's where a platform like Twix CN is really really useful. So Twixen is a platform that really just focusing on scene design.โ
โRead the full post here: https://replicate.com/blog/seedance-2โ
โIf you don't know, Super Design has this free Chrome extension and they allow you to clone website into pixel perfect vibe coding playground or clone just very specific UI components.โ
โI'll put the link to download both this Chrome extension as well as super design platform below. So, you can try for free.โ
โwe actually have a really uh powerful um open source library called auto evals but it's very open- source and uh uh flexibleโ
โChassisin is a UI component libraryโ
โROCKS, WHICH HELPS THE BEST SELLERS SELL EVEN TO MORE AND MORE EFFECTIVELYโ
โLucid is icon library that we can useโ
โGive me answer where Snowrap seem to be one of the best package to useโ
โAnd there are some probably more advanced things you can do as well like ask to generate a user flow of key interactions in mermaid chart.โ
โthere's an insanely good free resource you need to check out called How to Build an AI startup in three hours with less than $500 by Greg Eisenberg.โ
โSo, first thing first, you want to install this cloud code extension and this will allow you to deeply integrate into your current ID like cursor, VS code or wingserf. So now I can click on this run cโฆโ
โLISTEN LABS CAN HELPS MARKET RESEARCH. SO IF YOU'RE GOOGLE OR MICROSOFT... YOU CAN GO FROM TAKING ONCE A YEAR MARKET RESEARCH... TO ONCE A MONTH.โ
โIn Brain Trust, we have this tool called the Brain Trust proxy. Um, there's a lot of of similar tools. You could use ours or you could use something else.โ
โAI builder club where I will share the latest workflow tips and learnings about AI coding and building production ready agents both myself and other industry experts as well as tools that can help youโฆโ
โAI builder club where I will share the latest workflow tips and learnings about AI coding and building production ready agents both myself and other industry experts as well as tools that can help youโฆโ
โThe power of the Reporting APIโ
โSo there are two libraries that is very critical for you to achieve this level of animation interaction design. One is called GSAP another is motion.deaf. So most of you probably more familiar with moโฆโ
โSo there are two libraries that is very critical for you to achieve this level of animation interaction design. One is called GSAP another is motion.deaf.โ
โIf you're using super design, we already have a lot of knowledge of frame of motion baked in. But if you're not using super design, I also highly recommend you go add this MCP server from motion.dev aโฆโ
โSo there was essentially this post from Business Insider that talks about Meta's new AI that basically says death isn't the end.โ
โYou help people, hey, these are the restaurants, music, and books I love. I'm from LA. Then when you go to New York, it says, "Hey, here's the private club, the fashion shopping, and the activities yoโฆโ
โit was downloading the full MP4 and that was taking a long time and you know a lot of memory and then and it was putting it through deepgram which is a speechtoext platform that the AI would then analโฆโ
โreplate agents continue to improve like I'm hear more anecdotal stories of people building replate apps on like their way home from work being really impressedโ
โMIT released a tool called the Iceberg Index in November 2025 and it found that AI could already theoretically automate work equivalent to 1.2 trillion in wages across the US workforce in finance, heaโฆโ
โeven more uh lower technical version is uh anthropics artifact where you can actually prototype very simple apps and chat with claw to build really FR simple front pagesโ
โI was even so passionate that I actually managed to create a post AGI preparedness framework which essentially allows individuals who aren't really up to date with AI and AGI to not be surprised when โฆโ
โI've been following this page on Twitter for quite some time. It's called UBI Works.โ
โI actually made a free guide where you can actually use it. It's the navigate framework. It's a free full personal audit, your career, your income, your finances, your investments, specifically built โฆโ
โAnd they're launching um, Caterpillar by Alice, which is uh, it basically scans for security threats in in skills.โ
โSo Tandem created this cool "regroup" algorithm. It is kind of like in that video game "Among Us" when someone calls an emergency meeting. I don't know if anyone watching will get that reference.โ
โI want to talk about the beer game. No, it has nothing to do with drinking beer, nor does it promote drinking. Because this is Asian, I will rename it to the boba game.โ
โWe do sell on whatnot quite a bit.โ
โwe see it as a yeah thing where um yeah that's a kind of reason why like a chapt was created by Mayaiโ
โand um yeah really optimized a model where the environment was actually Kursza itself. So uh yeah gives them all the tools that like you have in Kurszer in a sense as well and um yeah optimize a modelโฆโ
โAlex Sang who's the original author of the RM work um yeah published it we've been yeah very interested in this kind of work have been yeah exploring it um as part of our like research as well and um โฆโ
โThis was an narration of an essay that I originally released on my blog at dwarcash.com. I'm going be publishing a lot more essays. I found it's actually quite helpful in ironing out my thoughts beforโฆโ
โNominal is the all-in-one data and AI platform for hardware engineering. You are used by amazing companies from Anderil all the way to the Corvette racing team in industries including aerospace and deโฆโ
โIf you're a scientist, there's a thing called Lab View. It's like complete trash, but like it's, you know, make a flowchart, right? Because you can't write Python or whatever. Horrible. Okay?โ
โThe future of letter AI is to be the single most important tool in a seller's toolkit. The single most important platform that they log into every single day. We like to use this term never sell aloneโฆโ
โI think a part of how we're making letter essential is actually related to a new product that we're launching called letter compass.โ
โYeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. Um, but I I I think A6Z has like uh you guys investing pencil or something. Pencil.dev.โ
โif you've used granola or fireflies notetakers, those use Assembly Eyes uh platform.โ
โif you've used Metaview or um Ashb's Noteaker. Okay. Ash. Yeah.โ
โYeah, exactly. like um like any user flow you can describe whether it's like to a manual tester or to an AI or you know probably to cursor or cloud code when you're building it just give it to momentiโฆโ
โThat's why I want to introduce you to this free research and material HubSpot provided. They did a whole bunch of experimentations across all the capabilities cloud co-work is providing and test acrosโฆโ