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WORK WITH CODEX FROM ANYWHERE

ChatGPT Codex is now available in preview on the ChatGPT mobile app, allowing users to manage AI tasks and synchronize with remote environments through a secure relay layer that protects sensitive files.

DWARFSTAR 4

DwarfStar 4 is a self-contained native inference engine for the DeepSeek V4 Flash model that supports Metal and CUDA backends and is optimized for local performance with features like 2-bit quantization and a compressed KV cache handling up to one million tokens. The engine provides a command-line interface and an OpenAI-compatible server for integrating coding agents on high-end personal hardware.

DID CAPACITY SHORTAGES TURN ANTHROPIC HOSTILE TO DEVS?

Anthropic recently faced backlash for restricting developer features and banning accounts, moves that were likely desperate measures to manage usage growth that far exceeded initial capacity plans. To resolve these infrastructure shortages, the company has reached an agreement to lease data center space from xAI, which will allow for increased API rate limits and restored access for Claude Pro subscribers.

WHY ARE AI COMPANIES BUYING THE TEAMS BEHIND YOUR FAVORITE DEV TOOLS?

AI labs are acquiring development tool teams to secure the infrastructure, like package managers and runtimes, that their coding agents rely on to function. Developers should use these tools while avoiding platform-specific coupling and tracking shifts in maintainership.

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AMAZONBOT IS FINALLY RESPECTING ROBOTS.TXT

Starting June 15, Amazonbot will officially transition to respecting industry-standard robots.txt directives, granting website owners direct control over how the crawler accesses their sites.

NEEDLE

Based on Gemini 3.1, Needle is an open-weights, 26-million parameter model optimized for extremely fast function calling on tiny consumer devices using its Simple Attention Network architecture.

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REMOVING THE MODEM AND GPS FROM MY 2024 RAV4 HYBRID

Physically disconnecting a vehicle's internal modem and GPS antenna prevents the automated collection and sale of private driving telemetry and location data to third-party brokers.

NODEBOOK

NodeBook is a multi-volume guide to help developers master Node.js internals, runtime behavior, and networking through in-depth analysis of architecture, memory management, and production observability.

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AI DOESN'T MAKE ANYONE GOOD. IT MAKES GOOD PEOPLE HARDER TO CATCH

AI widens the gap between people who were already good and everyone else. You are more likely to be displaced by someone who figured out how to use these new tools than by an agent or automation directly. AI gives more leverage to people who were already good. It amplifies technical curiosity - the willingness to tinker, build things, and direct tools with actual client context behind the prompts.

IS SOFTWARE LOSING ITS HEAD?

Salesforce's headless API repositioning signals that human-facing UI moats erode in the agentic era while data models, permissions, compliance logic, and execution layers become the new defensibility.

BEWARE OF REDUCTIONIST THINKING

You hit your DAU number, but the usage was fleeting. You hit your revenue, but half of it was bad revenue. Simplicity is seductive but not the same as truth. Every clean metric has a domain where it works and a domain where it lies to you. Before betting the company on one, find where it breaks, zoom in and out on the same question, run two different mental models against each other, think probabilistically rather than statically, and hold the conclusion loosely. Worth doing before your next strategy doc circulates.

SELF-FILMING GUIDE

Founders are now shooting their own launch videos, product demos, and recruiting clips. This guide gives an overview of the ideal cheap setup for filming yourself on an iPhone. You can't fix bad audio in post, so a $100 lav mic does more than any camera upgrade. Lighting fixes itself if you sit on the shadow side of a window. The guide also covers iPhone settings and a 10-second audio test before you record.

BUILD WITH NOTION'S DEVELOPER PLATFORM

Build agent tools and data syncs on Notion's hosted runtime.

CODE INTELLIGENCE

Code Intelligence gives Linear Agent controlled access to codebases so that it can reason about how products actually work. It turns repositories into shared product context that whole teams can use. Code Intelligence is now available in public beta for Business and Enterprise plans. It is free to use during the beta period.

BUILDING IS JUST THE BEGINNING: INTRODUCING DISCOVERABILITY

Lovable is introducing discoverability capabilities directly within the Lovable product experience. Apps will now ship with the ability to be read and ranked by search engines, and users can see how they're showing up across search. All apps are now structured so AI tools can read them as easily as humans can, making them discoverable on AI platforms. Lovable can now run an SEO review that checks sitemaps, robots.txt, metadata, content structure, alt text, tags, and more.

FROM “SYSTEM OF RECORD” TO “SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENCE”

Traditional CRM systems are evolving from merely storing data to driving value through intelligent orchestration layers. AI agents now streamline tasks by integrating data from multiple systems, offering real-time insights and automating routine sales operations. The future of go-to-market software lies in owning these systems of intelligence, which not only enhance efficiency but also expand revenue opportunities without diminishing headcount.

WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS CHEAP, INSIGHT IS EVERYTHING

Cheap inputs explode demand for those inputs. In 1769, James Watt patented a more efficient steam engine and British coal use rose tenfold over the next century. That is the Jevons paradox. The same will happen with AI and knowledge work. As the cost of finding, translating, and synthesizing information collapses, the bottleneck moves to insight, taste, and producing something new from cheap material. The moat shifts from access to information to what you do with it.

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EOGHAN'S ADVICE TO FOUNDERS

If 100 VCs reject your idea, you might be wrong.

NARRATIVE

Spend 20% of your time making your startup look inevitable in public, or someone else will.

FIELD WORK IS THE NEW MOAT

Deploying enterprise AI efficiently requires a deep understanding of how a company actually works, and that understanding can only be built in the field.

THE FAST LANE TO MEDIOCRITY

Sometimes, speed is just impatience disguised as ambition.

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AMERICANS STILL FEEL PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THE ECONOMY. WHEN WILL IT GET BETTER?

Despite record low sentiment, the resilient consumer today is still spending and sustaining the economy even as confidence falls. Surveys show deep pessimism driven by years of inflation and repeated shocks. Consumers focus on cumulative price increases rather than slowing inflation rates. Behavior tells a different story. Spending remains strong across travel, entertainment, and retail. Major companies continue to report solid demand. Economists note this disconnect is unusual but not a breakdown in consumer strength.

HOW THE NEXT GENERATION NAVIGATES RELATIONSHIPS, CONTENT, AND TECHNOLOGY

Teens ages 13-18 across five markets show a generation defined by balance rather than extremes. They're deeply connected online but still prioritize offline time. 66% of younger teens and 64% of older teens use social platforms to stay in touch with friends. They're also active creators, with 74% of younger teens and 61% of older teens producing content weekly. AI is viewed as both practical and creative, with 55% of younger teens expecting a mostly positive impact compared to 37% of older teens. They move between skepticism and optimism, and expect brands to deliver both trend relevance and real value.

POST-PURCHASE EMAIL SEQUENCE WITH PROMPTS

This post breaks down a 6-email post-purchase series with clear timing. Send a welcome email immediately with access details. Follow up 24 hours later with tips and key actions. After 2-4 days, address the biggest challenge users face. Another 2-4 days later, highlight an underrated feature. Then send a survey 2-4 days after that to gather feedback. Finally, 5-7 days later, send a bridge email introducing the next offer. AI prompts are provided in the post.

IT WORKS UNTIL IT DOESN'T: AI CONTENT STRATEGIES THAT BACKFIRE

AI content at scale often drives fast SEO gains, then sharp declines once Google catches on. Analysis of 220+ sites shows a clear pattern. Over half lost at least 30% of peak traffic, many losing far more. The issue is not AI itself but how it is used. Templated, repetitive content built for rankings gets demoted. Risky formats include comparison pages, listicles, glossaries, FAQs, and programmatic pages. Sustainable performance comes from original, expert-led content with real value, not volume.

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WRITE LIFECYCLE EMAIL CAMPAIGNS THAT CONVERT WITH CLAUDE + HUMANIC (WEBINAR)

In this webinar, Arjun Saksena, Founder/CEO of Humanic, will walk through how to use Claude Skills to generate on-brand subject lines, lifecycle flows, and nurture sequences from a single prompt. He'll also discuss ways to use Claude Code to analyze your lifecycle campaigns. The free webinar will take place on May 21 at 8:30 AM PT.

INSIDE CHATGPT SEARCH: HOW WEB.RUN AND FAN-OUT QUERIES SHAPE AI VISIBILITY

New research reverse-engineering ChatGPT's internal browsing system found that a March model switch reduced cited domains per response by over 20%, concentrating visibility on fewer high-authority sources. The newer model distributes queries across 10 or more "fan-out queries" per response, each targeting specific trusted domains, while product searches now get individual retrieval commands per product rather than bundled calls. The study distinguishes between parametric visibility, built through training data including press coverage and Wikipedia presence, and dynamic visibility from real-time search, noting that a brand unknown to the model's training data won't surface even when search is enabled.

SEO IS A PRODUCT, AEO IS BRAND

SEO should be treated as a product function rather than a marketing campaign, with SEO managers operating like PMs who align cross-functional resources. AEO, by contrast, is a brand function because LLMs determine visibility based on what the wider internet says about a company. AEO budgets should sit with brand teams who own PR, partnerships, and community events, not with SEO teams who lack the authority or tools to generate the external consensus that LLMs reward. Misallocating AEO to the SEO budget starves both channels simultaneously and incentivizes counterproductive tactics like Reddit spam that teach models to associate the brand with low-quality content.

LINKEDIN PLANS PAID-FOR EVENTS TO COURT THE CREATOR ECONOMY

Internal documents reveal LinkedIn plans to enter the paid creator event space starting in the second half of 2026, beginning with gated events for up to 50 creators before scaling to an ambition of 4,000 events annually. The company believes it is losing valuable content because creators prioritize platforms where they can monetize, and sees paid virtual events as a market worth up to $5 billion this year. The model would start with one-time ticket purchases and later add subscriptions, positioning LinkedIn alongside Patreon, YouTube, and TikTok as a monetization platform rather than just a professional network.

WHY "I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE" IS THE MOST UNDERRATED COMEDY SHOW ON THE INTERNET

“I Think You Should Leave” shows how niche content can outperform broad appeal when it creates a strong identity and gives fans material worth sharing. The show built a self-sustaining distribution engine through memes, reaction clips, Reddit threads, and fan accounts instead of relying on traditional promotion. Its fan ecosystem includes a subreddit with 363K members and an Instagram fan community with 939K followers, which keeps the show relevant between seasons at no extra cost to Netflix. The strategy works because the content is highly specific, emotionally relatable, and easy to repurpose into social currency that fans use in everyday conversations.

PLAN FOR ZERO SEARCH TRAFFIC (3 MINUTE VIDEO)

Condé Nast's CEO says publishers must plan for near-zero search traffic as AI and ads replace traditional search results and drive ongoing declines.

PINTEREST IS MAKING ADS MORE INTENT-AWARE, NOT JUST INTEREST-AWARE

The shift, combined with real-time context integration, represents a significant competitive advantage for conversion-focused campaigns.

IC WORK IS THE NEW CAREER FLEX

AI is making it possible for senior individual contributors to drive major business impact without managing a team. The best “High-Impact ICs” use AI to build, test, and ship work end to end, making management a choice rather than the only path to influence.

BUILDING, AND WHATNOT

Product management became diluted by overhiring, bureaucracy, and distance from customers. A better way is to have a small team of senior, hands-on PMs who own problems, stay close to users, ship quickly, validate early, and use AI to amplify real product judgment.

PRODUCT-MARKET FIT IS A TRAP

In AI, product-market fit can become a trap when companies over-optimize around what worked last quarter while customer expectations keep changing. Winning teams will stay lean, close to customers, and willing to replace their own product before the market moves past them.

WHY AI INITIATIVES BREAK NORMAL PRODUCT MANAGER INSTINCTS

AI initiatives quickly turn normal product work into transformation work by exposing messy workflows, unclear ownership, and weak governance. The best PMs keep momentum by starting with narrow, low-risk pilots, learning quickly, and adding structure only once the workflow proves repeatable.

PM'S GUIDE TO CLAUDE - WHEN TO USE CHAT VS COWORK VS CODE (93 MINUTE VIDEO)

PM work is shifting from one-off AI chats to persistent agent systems that can access files, use tools, learn from feedback, and run across devices. The best PMs will build self-improving workflows in Claude Cowork, Claude Code, and Dispatch, using AI to orchestrate work instead of repeatedly prompting from scratch.

BEYOND THE CODING ASSISTANT: A SERIES ON AI-ASSISTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

AI coding assistants improve individual developer speed, but they do not automatically improve team delivery. The next frontier is lifecycle orchestration across the full software development process, helping the entire team work faster, cheaper, and more effectively.