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Holy shit I’ve been waiting for this for so long!!!!

Anthropic dropped a complete guide to building effective AI agents. So cool! anthropic.com/engineering/bu…

Or better yet, ask your agent to read this.

Just built this with my daughter. Thanks @MarkRober ❤️

@AnthropicAI And what days did you use to train your own models? Is that also distillation?

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

@m_0_r_g_a_n_ The issue with using your subscription is that Anthropic has been banning accounts for using their plans inside harnesses. Did you get a separate account just for that?

@dev2tenk Opus 4.5, subscription, use claude code cli on server for help on issues

The whole setup isn’t cheap, though. Yes, it’s 100× cheaper than hiring someone, but it’s not $19/month where you get all of this. My total monthly cost is around $500 for now. Most of that comes from the Claude subscription, Nano Banana, CopyScape, server costs, and various APIs (keyword research, web scraping, web search).

@m_0_r_g_a_n_ Solid article! Thank you!

@sama Stoked for you… Or Sorry it happened

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

@T_Zahil Interested

What if I organised a week of Indie Hacking in my city, Nantes, in France? I'll find a coworking space for 10 people and a nice hotel for everyone. Would probably cost between 500 and 700€ per person. Would you be interested?

@sama @grok what’s the token price for this compared to 5.2? Is it cheaper?

GPT-5.3-Codex is here! *Best coding performance (57% SWE-Bench Pro, 76% TerminalBench 2.0, 64% OSWorld). *Mid-task steerability and live updates during tasks. *Faster! Less than half the tokens of 5.2-Codex for same tasks, and >25% faster per token! *Good computer use.

@robin_faraj That makes sense! I’m in the process of adding something like this to one of my products. So your validation is helpful

@robin_faraj What’s the better strategy?

offering free trials is worse for my mental health than any toxic relationship i've been in there's this one pakistani guy who keeps signing up over and over just to abuse the trial we cancel him manually every time most signups never planned to pay anyway and when trials end it’s all just failed payments and overdue invoices piling up I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMORE 😭😭

@kylecordes @KimiProduct I agree with this statement, except opentouter is super slow with these models and the latency makes the bot unusable. I was willing to pay more (opentouter charges extra) for the flexibility, but it makes Kimi unusable.

@KimiProduct Others have pointed out that even if today you have one favorite model, you're better off picking OpenRouter so you can assign different models for different kinds of OpenClaw work without having to sign up for more accounts.

@BibiTheWriter @hackmamba Hope you enjoyed it!

@hackmamba @dev2tenk Controversial content

Our EOC podcast is now live! 🔴 What's working on LinkedIn with @dev2tenk x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@emmashouldwrite @hackmamba Hope you enjoyed it!

@hackmamba @dev2tenk FINALLY LINKEDIN!! ok im seated

@robin_faraj Vitamin B12 bro

I’m tired ALL THE TIME any tips??? (maybe my body puts all the energy towards healing itself??)

holy shit!

I want to launch my first iOS app. What do I need? I've already built the app and have a developer account.

@thiswillblossom God! Payments is such a pain! I had a 15K payment fail in November which I am still chasing

first payments in the year hit different