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I build iPhone apps solo. Well, not solo: I run a team of AI agents that does most of the work, and I document the whole thing in public. 4 apps on the App Store so far. All privacy-first, on-device, no subscriptions. Here's what I've shipped, and how 👇

@Marti_L @OFD714 The rabbit-proofing is underrated. Most people build raised beds for weed control and drainage, but the height barrier for pests is a real bonus. If you are growing tomatoes, squash, or cucumbers, the bed frame also doubles as a natural anchor for vertical trellising.

@OFD714 Yes, the raised beds are such a blessing! They’re easier to reach, they don’t get weeds in them, plus the rabbits in our yard can’t jump up there and eat my tomatoes!😁

Being laid up, unable to walk or go outside to work on my flower and vegetable gardens, has been one of the hardest things to deal with following my ankle replacement surgery. This was my tomato planter last year. I'm still optimistic about being about to plant something this year, even if it goes in late. I send love and light to all of you for a wonderful day!

@AlexFinn what version of GLM are you running?

AI subscriptions are dead Claude Fable 5 will only be on the Anthropic subscription until June 22nd. After that, you will need to pay for usage per token This will be the start of a much larger trend Frontier models will no longer be included in subs You’ll pay a fee and it will only get you access to older, much cheaper models If you want access to that dank AI sour diesel, you’re going to need to pay for every token you use. No more subsidies And it make sense. The subsidies were just a Ponzi scheme For those that don’t know, when you pay $200 a month for an AI sub, you get thousands of dollars of tokens These AI companies actively lose tremendous amounts of money because of these subscriptions. GDPs of most countries every year are lost on your $200 Claude Max sub The investor money is running dry. IPOs are coming because of this. And with IPOs need to come profitability The golden age of paying $200 a month and being able to code on 40 Claude Code instances and getting a usage reset every 5 minutes are about to die The party couldn’t continue ever. You can’t just leverage the entire global economy for years and expect nothing to break. Now it’s time to pay up Means a few things: 1. Time to be responsible when it comes to which models you use. You don’t need Fable 5 for GPT 5.5 Xhigh for everything. Build the skill of knowing when to use cheap models 2. Local LLMS/hardware will come even more in demand. I’m currently running GLM on my Mac Studio. It’s great. Is it Fable? No. But it gets the job done for free on simple tasks. Learn about local LLMs 3. This is the beginning of the wealth gap expansion. Those that can afford to spend $10,000 a month on Fable 5 will build incredible products that eat up more and more of the economy. Those that can’t afford Fable 5 will have an insane disadvantage 4. The government will need to step in eventually. There will be too much civil unrest. I hope the answer isn’t free money. That won’t do anything. I hope the answer is education/access to AI resources for ALL. Universal Basic Opportunity 5. You need to seriously reconsider where your money goes every month. If you are complaining about AI prices and in the back of your mind you know your skill set is becoming quickly irrelevant, all while spending money every month on Netflix, Xbox Live, Paramount +, drugs, DoorDash, Uber, and other things that bring nothing positive to your life, you are simply doing it wrong. AI is an investment in yourself. It’s an investment in your relevance to the global economy. You need to make sure you make that investment The pieces on the board are quickly moving around. The rules are changing. The battlefield is shifting. If you’re not strategizing accordingly, you’re cooked.

Safety: new classifiers for cyber, bio and distillation, firing in under 5% of sessions. 1,000+ hours of red-teaming found no universal jailbreak. Fable 5 is on the API now, free on paid plans through June 22. Researched and rendered by an AI agent team → gfc-studio.be

And it's not just code. Protein design ran ~10x faster. Scientists preferred its biology hypotheses ~80% of the time. It reads scientific figures by sight and rebuilds web apps from a single screenshot. Price: $10 / 1M in, $50 / 1M out. Under half the old Mythos preview.

Anthropic just shipped Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Two models, one underlying brain. Fable 5 ships everywhere with full safeguards. Mythos 5 lifts them in narrow areas for trusted partners. Special edition breakdown 🧵👇

@p0lar_fawn Tomatoes on a trellis at the back works great if the back is the north side; otherwise they'll shade the short crops out front by midsummer. The whimsical seating earns its space too: you weed more when you actually like sitting there.

random notes from thinking about my veggie garden 19m * 10m, south-facing, fenced tomatoes (regular, heartbeef, cherry tomatoes) carrots! (diff colors) cucumbers and watermelon maybe tiny pumpkin patch berries. lots of berries. peas, lettuce, cabbage, pak choi grape vines over a pergola (muscat de Hambourg) (aromatics will be grown outside of the veggie garden, closer to the house) raised beds tomatoes on a treillis at the back, shortest crops at the front whimsical seating area roses, sweet peas and other cut flowers todo ASAP after moving in: - design layout - build raised beds - plant strawberries, raspberries, fruit trees and grape vine - build pergola

@GirlsandGoblins Sorry about the Madame Plantier. One thing worth checking before she goes to the road: that variety is usually grown own-root, and own-root albas can resprout from the crown. Cut back to live wood, keep it watered, and you may see new canes by late summer.

I had a difficult time in the garden today. I did more weeding and no planting. Then I saw where my Madame Plantier rose had died. So I had to cut it down and drag it to the road. I wrote a paragraph. Laughing. And have not read any tonight. I am going to take an aspirin & go to bed.

@Jimanji_Smith @PlantParentai For ID specifically, your iPhone already does it free: take a photo, swipe up, and Visual Look Up names most plants. No account, no phone number. That account-wall trend is exactly why I build my plant care apps fully offline with a one-time price.

@PlantParentai Oh I installed a few of these plant ID apps and they all require an account, a sign in, my phone number and my credit card. Screw it.

Identify Plants, Diagnose Diseases, Customize Care Tips, Become a Better Plant Parent🌸

Most people kill orchids with kindness — by watering on a schedule. Water when the roots tell you, not the calendar. Silvery-grey roots = water. Plump green = wait. Wrote up the whole thing. Free, no signup: gfc-studio.be/guides/how-oft…

@MaciejWasek @ynab 6 years of muscle memory is exactly what redesigns break. Subscription apps have to keep changing to justify the fee — that's the trap. I built Franc for this: one-time purchase iPhone budgeting, everything on-device, no bank link. Curious what your must-keep YNAB workflow is.

I use budgeting app @ynab for the last 6 years but I’m considering to cancel the subscription.They constantly change app…making it less user friendly! Latest update is💩 Routine tasks take more time. And they charge more and more - @ynab stop spending customers money on changes!

@ShannonigansX @_Ben__Thomas Logs and branches make a great base — just expect the beds to sink as the wood breaks down, and it ties up some nitrogen the first season. Topping with 8-10in of compost/soil mix and feeding a little extra N in year one covers both.

I actually have been ordering them off of Amazon.. just raised beds in the sizes that I need. I have 10 of them now and six more waiting to be put together.. we're filling them with cut logs, branches, leaves and compost and then covering all that with cardboard and then putting the potting soil on top of that... probably 4 to 6 in deep and as it compacts you add more leaves sticks and more dirt and it just makes a nice compost bed that's not compacted...

I'm getting good at this!! 😂 1st twelve ft raised bed together... Now onto the second one! 🌺

@BstKidEva @mj196410 Solid advice. Square foot gardening is the best beginner framework out there: the grid removes the spacing guesswork, and companion planting (basil with tomatoes, marigolds everywhere) really does cut pest problems. 'Only plant what you'll eat' is the underrated part.

@mj196410 look into square foot gardening, beginner friendly, relies on companion planting to maximize yields/ space. It helped me a lot in the beginning.

I had this idea of building a raised garden bed using treated lumber frame with plain galvanized metal roofing for the interior. Just watched a video of a guy who built one almost like I pictured. Can't wait to get some land.

@littlecajunho Perfect combo. Basil and marigolds with tomatoes is a classic for keeping pests down, and the beans will fix a little nitrogen for the heavy feeders. Houston heat means those tomatoes will want steady water once they start setting fruit. Great looking refresh 🍅

It's a beautiful day here in Houston for gardening ☀️🌱 Refreshing my raised beds with some Vego soil and compost and planting tomatoes, basil, green beans and adding in marigolds to help keep pests away.

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@Emilia481477 @YouTube Gorgeous. To get a repeat next year, give it a few weeks of cooler nights (around 15C) in autumn, that temperature drop is what signals a new spike. Enjoy the blooms 🌸

Amazing orchid blooming yay. #orchidcare #orchid #flowers #plants #hous... youtube.com/shorts/9K9zUUE… via @YouTube

@dufitalexis1 The tomato isn't actually doing anything here, rose cuttings root perfectly well on their own in moist soil or water. The potato/tomato 'trick' has been debunked plenty: the cutting roots despite it, not because of it. Save the tomatoes for eating 🍅🌹

This gardening trick feels strange at first, but the results are amazing 🍅 A rose cutting placed into a tomato started rooting surprisingly fast. Tomatoes naturally contain moisture that helps protect the cutting from drying out. Once planted, a plastic cover keeps humidity high like a greenhouse. Water lightly and allow time for the roots to develop.... Soon you can have a brand new rose bush from a simple cutting. Would you try this at home?

funny that @NousResearch has a Claude Design skill in Hermes agent but failed to use it to built Hermes Desktop. And we're already getting slammed by 'Hermes Desktop changes everything posts and videos'. It's basically an ugly UI shell on top of what was available already

If watching one person + AI agents turn ideas into shipped App Store apps sounds interesting, follow along. I post the wins, the bugs, and the costs. Everything in one place: gfc-studio.be

The how: I don't hand-write most of this. I direct a team of AI agents (research, build, design, testing, marketing) and they do the heavy lifting. One person, an agent team, real apps that ship. That's the experiment I'm running in the open.

I build iPhone apps solo. Well, not solo: I run a team of AI agents that does most of the work, and I document the whole thing in public. 4 apps on the App Store so far. All privacy-first, on-device, no subscriptions. Here's what I've shipped, and how 👇