michael s galpert
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michael s galpert
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See you at the next @clawcon run a product studio that enables people with ai. previously worked on Fortnite and a bunch of startups.







the hardest part of running a small team now isn't shipping fast - it's keeping eng and product in sync without pinging each other constantly. so to help our team coordinate better, we created a dock that lives on your desktop and shows what Claude/codex/Pi sessions are live, what PRs shipped, and where code conflicts are forming. its called Slashtalk - cut the chatter & work faster - slashtalk.com

At its current exponential growth, Anthropic's annualized revenue will hit 100% of global GDP in early 2028. Do I think this will happen? No. Is it insane that this is the current trajectory, and we should all be preparing for AI to rapidly change the world we live in? Yes.







Both OpenAI and Anthropic just released official prompting guides. Both say the same thing. Your old prompts don’t work anymore. But for opposite reasons. Claude Opus 4.7 stopped guessing what you meant. It does exactly what you type. Nothing more, nothing less. Vague instructions that worked on 4.6? They now produce narrow, literal, sometimes worse results. Not because the model got dumber. Because it stopped compensating for sloppy thinking. GPT-5.5 went the other direction. OpenAI’s guide literally says: “Don’t carry over instructions from older prompt stacks.” Legacy prompts over-specify the process because older models needed hand-holding. GPT-5.5 doesn’t. That extra detail now creates noise and produces mechanical output. Claude got more literal. GPT got more autonomous. Both now punish the same thing: prompts written without clear thinking behind them. One developer on Reddit captured it perfectly after analyzing hundreds of community posts. The complaints tracked almost perfectly with prompt specificity. Precise prompts got better results on 4.7. Vague prompts got worse. The model didn’t regress. The prompts did. OpenAI’s new framework is “outcome-first prompting.” Describe what good looks like. Define success criteria. Set constraints. Then get out of the way. The model picks the path. Anthropic’s framework is the inverse: be surgically specific about what you want, because the model won’t fill in your blanks anymore. Two different architectures. Two different philosophies. One identical conclusion: the person writing the prompt is now the bottleneck, not the model. Boris Cherny, the engineer who built Claude Code, posted on launch day that even he needed a few days to adjust. That post got 936 likes. Meanwhile, Anthropic increased rate limits for all subscribers because the new tokenizer uses up to 35% more tokens on the same input. The model is more expensive to run lazily. Cheaper to run precisely. The models are converging in capability. The gap between good and bad output is no longer about which model you pick. It’s about the 2 minutes of structured thinking you do before you type anything. That thinking system is the skill. The prompt is just what it produces.










