Elena Yunusov

Awesome AI Tinkerers tonight thank you to @Shopify and @googlecloud for the support!

The incompetence emerging from Metrolinx revelations is staggering. This is an organization that has just discovered it actually needs in house staff who know about trains.

The English-speaking world is falling in rankings of life satisfaction (The Economist)

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"Don't focus on GDP. It doesnt measure health, trust, freedom, quality of life...." "Ok, lets focus on trends in happiness!" Er, wait...

@jrodgers @mattroberts I find DMs don’t work as well as they used to… because those channels have also been sloppified

@mattroberts Github and/or socials + nice email and talk to people. Hiring processes that are automated are basically as effective as dating sites.

From this seat looks like corporate hiring is now fundamentally broken - because AI slop is being layered all over resumes and the systems to clean it up have not kept pace.

"Canada’s story gets even more depressing when only young people under 25 are counted. The country then falls to 71st, another new low. Young people were once, on average, the happiest Canadian cohort; now they’re the most miserable. And when compared to 136 countries, that 10-year drop in life satisfaction is one of the largest in the world, placing Canada just four slots from the bottom."

An ex-Meta employee made a Spotify playlist for staff preparing for mass layoffs and it lowkey slaps

Remember when life looked like this

SOOO excited to share this research. It has been many months in the making, and it’s the largest and certainly the most multilingual qualitative study that we think has ever been run!?

I would also add "the human wage bill and popularity of chess has never been higher" and "AI has clearly improved the rate of learning for humans" and "humans moved to various chess-adjacent tasks" - all with superintelligence going back 10-20 yeas now - as lessons...

@jhendersonYT Ray Bradbury sold one book in 1950 and was given a check for $1500 up front, which paid for 2 years rent and his first child. That pipeline simply doesn't exist any more

We've been building an internal Claude Code plugin system at Intercom with 13 plugins, 100+ skills, and hooks that turn Claude into a full-stack engineering platform. Lots done, more to do. Here's a thread of some highlights.

Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner. Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate: 🎨 AI-Native Canvas 🧠 Smarter Design Agent 🎙️ Voice ⚡️ Instant Prototypes 📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md Rolling out now. Details and product walkthrough video in 🧵

Can’t wait for this!

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

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Gaudí is undefeated.

Claude’s official “Get inspired by what you can do with Claude” page is well worth a look. It covers practical examples across research, writing, coding, analysis, and everyday work, and it goes much deeper than I expected. Instead of reading second-hand summaries, it’s better to go straight to the official collection. claude.com/resources/use-…

I have finally discovered the limit of Claude. It’s me. I am the limit.

Canadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard wins Turing Award theglobeandmail.com/canada/science…