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AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos
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Does AI stop children from learning?
Eli_Felse_News: News module for Eli Felse and harness for AI to read trending news articles
AI usage patterns in software teams
Norway should buy OpenAI
Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things
NotebookLM workflow: the index trick plus six free companion tools
Instead of asking NotebookLM to summarize, build an index of topics across sources, paste it into custom instructions, then work topic by topic asking it to explain.
ARGUS: semi-autonomous AI pentesting rig in a pelican case
A hobbyist combined a Jetson Orin Nano, a Pi 5 with an AI accelerator running Kali, SDR radios and a local Qwen model into a portable pentest platform.
A playable multiplayer MOBA built with Opus 4.8 in one day
Using a /goal prompt with full autonomy, Claude generated all assets as SVG and handled multiplayer rooms, bots and balancing. Total 2.72B tokens, 97% cheap cache reads, delivered under a $200 monthly subscription.
Playcode AI website builder: full code export, original visuals
Describe a site in plain language and get a complete site with original logos and hero images in minutes. Full React, Vue or HTML code access with export to Vercel, Netlify or AWS. Pro tier at $21 per month.
Folk: an AI chief of staff living in your messaging apps
Folk sends a 7am brief, captures anything you text it into a persistent memory graph, handles meeting scheduling and drafts replies for approval, never sending autonomously. $20 per month; capture friction drops to zero.
Vibe coding mobile apps is much harder than web
React Native lesson: roughly 15 native config files must be right before any feature runs, and AI is inconsistent with native infra.
n8n plus Claude content system claims 1.4M LinkedIn impressions
A 7-component automation turns one video into seven assets, tracks trending topics, schedules across platforms via API and learns which posts convert. The author reports spending 90% of time building rather than posting.
A 4-step workflow to avoid the generic AI look in client websites
AI produces same-looking sites because it lacks direction, not ability. The fix: obsessive research, committing to a visual direction before building, an 11-section implementation doc built by prompting AI to ask.
A Context OS in Notion: structured databases that feed AI prompts
A builder structured Notion databases to feed domain facts, company context and decision history into AI prompts, eliminating generic outputs. The workspace doubles as a traversable knowledge graph for agents.
Vibe-coded website hits 17K impressions in 28 days from SEO alone
A site built in under 24 hours with pure AI coding logged 17.2K impressions and 77 organic clicks in 28 days. Thesis: speed beats perfection for micro-tools; let search validate the idea before polishing the product.
Claude Code pipeline cuts short-video production from 1 hour to 15 minutes
A founder posting twice daily built a Claude Code system that analyzes past content and reference creators to generate an idea backlog, then auto-edits raw talking-head footage with cuts, captions and zooms.
Claude Routines explained: 13 business automations
Video walkthrough of Claude Routines, event-triggered agents in Anthropic's cloud. Three parts: instructions, reference files and app access.
Claude script plus Nano Banana generates brand-consistent ad creative
A marketer built a Claude Python script that scrapes brand sites for colors, fonts and logos, then feeds that context to Nano Banana for ad generation. Brand context turned generic output into usable 6-7/10 creative.
Claude outputs real Word and Excel files, prompting SaaS cancellations
Users discovered Claude produces properly formatted .docx and .xlsx files that open cleanly in Office. The thread frames it as a SaaS unbundling moment, with users cancelling writing and document tools.
Claude computer use audits a full Amazon Seller Central account
A seller used Claude with computer use to audit an Amazon Seller account end to end: listings, PPC, reviews and reports. The agent operated the browser directly and edited the account, with no custom connector needed.
Anthropic reportedly testing a Lovable-style app builder inside Claude
Screenshots circulating on social media show a full-stack app builder inside Claude: prompt to model selection to a working app with auth and database, no-code and hosted by Anthropic. Not yet released publicly.