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Effective today, we are: 1) Doubling Claude Code’s 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, and Team plans; 2) Removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans; and 3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models.

@FredsDaily That is news to me. What?

@Renee_Inspired I agree that’s why I’m getting a degree… in Philosophy, lol

@FredsDaily As a SB member, what do you think about this?

Coinbase is now testing 1 person teams + AI agents and announced laying off 700 employees. Other companies doing this (layoffs + AI): 1. Shopify: No new headcount unless you prove AI can’t do the job. 2. Block: Cutting ~4,000 roles (~40%); Dorsey says AI lets much smaller teams do more. 3. Klarna: Its AI assistant now does work equivalent to about 700 support roles. 4. Duolingo: Went “AI‑first,” telling teams to rebuild workflows around AI before hiring. 5. Salesforce: Paused new engineering hires after AI tools boosted dev productivity ~30%. 6. Amazon: Cutting about 16,000 corporate jobs this year in an efficiency/automation push. 7. Meta: Cutting ~10% of staff and freezing thousands of open roles as it doubles down on AI. 882 jobs per day disappearing in tech. This is the pace right now. And I think that's going to accelerate and move beyond tech. My POV: Every single one of these companies is telling you the same thing: one person with AI can do what used to take a team. They're literally saying it with their org charts. If you're employed, build a 1 person team on the side. If you're laid off, build one today. The tools that made your role redundant are the same tools that let you build your own company. The biggest wave of new startups is going to come from people who got restructured out of exactly these announcements.

when Claude Opus 6 tells you to "stop spiraling and go to bed" 😵‍💫

My first AI employee, Garcia, was born: February 24, 2025. Session 1.

One of my most profitable niches is farming! I have a Facebook page that makes $5,000 to $10,000 a month via Facebook content monetization alone, plus display ads and merch money. I cover farming and finance: cattle, horses, land and cattle fattening and selling, fertilizers, expenses, breeding, ranch problems, managing the farm and animal food, grass growing, chickens and eggs, bull sales, AI (artificial insemination), nutrition, niche trends and everything related to farming. I started in that niche 6 years ago and the page is doing absolutely great.

8 fiction books more addicting than scrolling: 1) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

@FredsDaily Things that make you happy.

1p Back at my desk, catching up with @Renee_Inspired on what my focus should be for this weekend.

most growth marketers use AI to rewrite headlines and call it a day. here's how I actually use Claude on the growth marketing team at @AnthropicAI across chat, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code 👇

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

@RyanNiessen @Mappletons What is Paper clip?

@Mappletons Moved to paper clip last week on a vm and really liking it so far - nice visibility and clarity on what’s happening.

How is everyone managing their agent SKILL.md files? Is it just chaos? Global skills, repo-specific skills, keeping them in sync between machines, figuring out which ones you have installed, authoring new ones. What are we doing? Does anyone have a sane system?

@FredsDaily Oh man!!! This is great news, Fred. I am pumped.

11p Success. I got Claude to take Scrappy's file and turn it into cold lead campaign. It queued 10 test emails in my Gmail draft to review. They were perfect so now doing 26 more. @Renee_Inspired... it's working!

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found. All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.

Introducing GPT-5.5 A new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry more tasks through to completion. It marks a new way of getting computer work done. Now available in ChatGPT and Codex.

@FredsDaily this may be good for some of the stuff that we have been building for your business.

@Marie_Haynes I love that.

@Renee_Inspired I think this is where things are headed, yes!

"Google Chat becomes your new command line for work." Workspace Intelligence sounds incredibly helpful. Pulls in info from docs, gmail, sheets, meeting notes and more. "Your workspace data becomes an Enterprise knowledge graph." Wow.

@FredsDaily This is one of the more interesting conversations that you and I sometimes have. I won't go into details but it is fascinating stuff.

11a Talking with @Renee_Inspired about my decision tree of priorities. I think business owners are weird and what is required for success is a different mindset than most. Not sure I fully have it, but working on it. lol

How do you find peace ✨