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857 dispatches since March 2014 · page 8 of 35

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In reply to @SpringStreetNYC · May 12, 2026

Okay, with a bit of fiddling yesterday, I've now got a serious day-to-day contender to Claude Code. Pi(.)dev + unsloth/qwen3.6-35b-a3b-ud-mlx served via @lmstudio.

The video below is not sped up. It shows the agent wrapping up bootstrapping and running a small suite of UX tests, making a commit and doing some house cleaning.

Honestly: It's fast. It's "Good Enough™️". And most importantly: It's predictable.

After spending most of March and April outright fighting with Opus every single day, I'll take predictable over powerful any day now.

And I want to point out: Running it requires 20G of RAM. A clean 20G. Not less. But also NOT more.

@lmstudio PS: Thank you @badlogicgames and the team for building Pi. Feels good to work with a clean, lean agent harness again.

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Okay, with a bit of fiddling yesterday, I've now got a serious day-to-day contender to Claude Code. Pi(.)dev + unsloth/qwen3.6-35b-a3b-ud-mlx served via @lmstudio.

The video below is not sped up. It shows the agent wrapping up bootstrapping and running a small suite of UX tests, making a commit and doing some house cleaning.

Honestly: It's fast. It's "Good Enough™️". And most importantly: It's predictable.

After spending most of March and April outright fighting with Opus every single day, I'll take predictable over powerful any day now.

And I want to point out: Running it requires 20G of RAM. A clean 20G. Not less. But also NOT more.

"Which city in Paris are you staying in?": Can an LLM autoresearch loop teach a phone-sized small language model (SLM) to ask frontier-quality questions? Can it? Does it? Let's find out!

We discovered a technique that enables Apple’s native 2025 3B Foundation Model to come within about one rubric point of a frontier cloud model (Claude Sonnet 4.6) on every quality dimension. It took us 96 experiments to test every lever we could find — prompting, retrieval, decoding, pipeline, fine-tuning, preference-learning, reinforcement-learning, adversarial-distillation, and more.

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What I find super remarkable in this video is that he took the time and effort to really understand and then even communicate what's actually going on here. For me, this de-mystificaion just creates more wonder, not even less. I feel like I can groove even harder with the song now than before.

And that's a really rare skill to have: take something complex, deeply understand it, find what makes it tick and THEN put together a visual, fun and creative exploration that even a non-musician can dig.

The more I reflect on the video, the more I'm impressed:

That's Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot" level scientific communication. Feynman lecture grade quality.

It's almost as good as the KEXP video itself and I will bestow 'pon it my personal highest honors: make it part of my daily AdP YouTube tending: I will now rewatch it regularly and favorite every comment in the comment section. 😂

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In reply to @RealistSec · Apr 9, 2026

A combination. Set it up once, then you have a central single source to monitor.

Nowadays, I have a Perplexity Pro task that collates and emails only the ones relevant to me every day, Grok does one once a week too,

But also still have an RSS Reader which for the last 5-10 years I always used with 5-10 rotating sources, main ones being:
1. t.co/N2ufzdlBq8

2. t.co/EVAC7Wjiyi

3. t.co/NnbCQusvk7

4. t.co/6uVdvHuuz8

5. t.co/PcK85aXLCt
And before i worked from home, I always had the SANS Stormcast on for my commute for a pod to listen to,
t.co/KW9KYn6UUu

Used to be a BIG fan of Mandiant threat report, but they paywalled it when Google took over and the Google Threat Intelligence pricing it too rich for me now so only get the dumbed down editions at:
t.co/shMCNLB2pU

@RealistSec (I love RSS)

I've directly added cisa.gov/known-exploite… as a new part of my daily claw brief. Thank you!!

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISAKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISAFor the benefit of the cybersecurity community and network defenders—and to help every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity—CISA maintains the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. Organizations should use the KEV catalog as an input to their vulnerability management prioritization framework. Learn more about how to u…↗ cisa.gov
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In reply to @tadasgedgaudas · Apr 10, 2026

Hey, yes this could definitely work, especially with $2k budget for creators.

All you need to do:

  • input your app's url
  • Setup $20 flat fee per post + $1 per 1k views
  • get a few creators start posting for you

best thing is that we will find creators in your niche, so the audience is targeted.

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@tadasgedgaudas Very cool! Thank you for clarifying and showing :D

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In reply to @tadasgedgaudas · Apr 10, 2026

Guys you know you can just use $50/month topyappers subscription which will automatically find and outreach creators for you.

Will save you not only money but TIME! t.co/wMCJQ9ydd5 t.co/XG61N7Ot11

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Oh wow, $50/mo. sounds like a really good deal.

So far, I've mostly used ASO for my apps but I really want to learn running paid promotions.

To me, TopYappers seems like a perfect choice but I'm not sure if I'm "ready" or not.

@tadasgedgaudas, with your experience: What are the basic nuts-and-bolt requirements that I need to bring to the table before it makes sense to subscribe and reach out to creators.

Here's where I'm at:

  • I've got a story
  • I've got an app on the App Store for that story
  • I've got a $50/mo. SaaS budget
  • I've got a creator budget, let's say $2,000 for a first round of tests
  • I've done paid advertising before
  • I have tested and tuned sales funnels
  • I am totally aware that there is no guarantee that using topyappers will result in any meaningful ROI

Anything obvious I'm missing here to get started?

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In reply to @SamuelNosi88659 · Apr 10, 2026

@VadimStrizheus Right now the decades are happening in days not weeks. I wonder what's gon happen when the updates slow down and we're then at the point of stabilization t.co/M0IVavR978

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Yup, I feel the same.

For me it's been a combination of

  • working at AI-fueled hyper-speed at work and personal projects
  • absorbing AI-related news changes
  • the (perceived) craziness of domestic and international news

I had a moment in December where I felt really burned out. Took some time offline which let me recharge quiet well.

Then another sort of low-point last week which I've given a good amount of recovery attention.

And I'll definitely need some time offline again this weekend.

Biggest surprise: A nice hot shower really, really helps me reset and feel fresh again. At least fresh enough to figure out what else I need more of.

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In reply to @chiefaioffice · Apr 9, 2026

@SpringStreetNYC Hi no, I shut down the account and products.

Gotcha! Then I would like to thank you for your time and effort that you have put into keeping the database up-to-date.

I felt like the value you created was absolutely worth giving you my money for it.

In fact, looking back, you could have increased the price btw. I would have paid at least 50% more and still have had the feeling of getting a good deal.

Again, thank you!

If you launch something new, please keep me updated. Either here via DM or via email (you should have mine, starts with alexis.rondeau@...)

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In reply to @danshipper · Apr 8, 2026

if you’re freaking out about Mythos, remember:

Never make any major life decisions within 30 days of a meditation retreat, psychedelic trip, or first encounter with a frontier AI model.

LOL, pretty much. imho, frontier models are psychedelics.

(Except Opus 4.6 of course.)

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In reply to @chooserich · Apr 8, 2026

Everybody is calling this an attack on Openclaw… wrong.

This is an attack on Salesforce...

Agencies will sell agents as a service (AaaS) to clients all powered and securely Sandboxed on Anthropic’s platform. t.co/uXqTH1b34A

@chooserich Ahhh, good call. Yeah, I can see agencies going for that.

Where from are they going to get the domain expertise in though? The clients?

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In reply to @claudeai · Apr 8, 2026

Introducing Claude Managed Agents: everything you need to build and deploy agents at scale.

It pairs an agent harness tuned for performance with production infrastructure, so you can go from prototype to launch in days.

Now in public beta on the Claude Platform. t.co/vHYfiC1G56

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@claudeai One thing I don't yet understand is if/how/when/where pre-training and RL happens.

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In reply to @signulll · Apr 9, 2026

the internet is the greatest playground ever built.

if you’re not having fun on it you’re fundamentally misusing it.

@signulll My highlight of the past 2 weeks has been Angine de Poitrine's full show on KEXP's youtube channel.

Feels like hearing and seeing the White Stripes for the first time.

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In reply to @KingBootoshi · Apr 8, 2026

The last thing I would ever do is have my product rely on one companies agent infra, lol

BUILD YOUR OWN INFRA

DO NOT GET PROVIDER LOCKED t.co/uuCCigg1VD

@KingBootoshi Hmmm... I had the same initial reaction. What if on-prem doesn't matter and if you're using Anthropic API anyways, might as well?

I think the eval of what is and isn't right (based on your domain expertise) will matter much more. I think.

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In reply to @_hi_mc · Apr 8, 2026

Hi, I'm Michael, an engineer working on Anthropic's API team. I'm really excited to finally be able to talk about Claude Managed Agents, a suite of APIs and developer tooling we've been working on for the past few months. t.co/oKG2MdT2K5

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@mc_anthropic Great docs, doc!

I really like the "pets-vs-cattle analogy" - got me thinking, I probably tend towards building pets. Thank you so much :)