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@andruyeung @anton_chuvakin Aka leadership

Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role. They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments. This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to large-scale industry activations. The top AI research lab in the world recognizes that to cross the chasm and reach everyday consumers, they need to lean into hospitality. They need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human. They understand that digital channels are getting increasingly saturated. Every feed is flooded with AI content... every inbox is overflowing. The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person. The companies that win in the next decade won't just have the best product but the most emotional in-person presence and the most compelling storytelling. If you're in events, experiential marketing, or brand activations, this is your moment. The biggest tech companies in the world are betting on you.

We’ve identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems, impacting a limited subset of customers. Please see our security bulletin: vercel.com/kb/bulletin/ve…

Is anybody else interested in a free private jet flight for 6 people to Augusta to go to the The 2026 Masters this weekend? I'm still looking for 3-4 more people to join us. We can leave tomorrow, April 8 and will fly to Augusta where we'll stay through the final round and then fly home. If interested please PM me. Preferably someone with a private jet and 6 tickets to the Masters, otherwise we can't go.

Every team at your company should be creating their own 'Team OS' in Claude Code on Github. Here's how: 1:45 - What is a Team OS 13:37 - Shared skills and commands 25:24 - Shared team automations 59:50 - The learning flywheel

@cinecitta2030 The trains are a little late

Mussolini’s great-grandson, 23-year old Romano Floriani Mussolini, on Instagram

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens. normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task "I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops. no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words "result. done. me stop." 50-75% burn reduction with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now

Oil at $150 would trigger global recession, per Fink of BlackRock.

If you, like me, just woke up, let me catch you up on the Claude Code Leak (I know nothing, all conjecture): > Someone inside Anthropic, got switched to Adaptive reasoning mode > Their Claude Code switched to Sonnet > Committed the .map file of Claude Code > Effectively leaking the ENTIRE CC Source Code > @realsigridjin was tired after running 2 south korean hackathons in SF, saw the leak > Rules in Korea are different, he cloned the repo, went to sleep > Wakes up to 25K stars, and his GF begging him to take it down (she's a copyright lawyer) > Their team decided - how about we have agents rewrite this in Python!? Surely... this is more legal > Rewrite in Py > Board a plane to SK🇰🇷 > One of the guys decides python is slow, is now rewriting ALL OF CLAUDE CODE into Rust. > Anthropic cannot take down, cannot sue > Is this "fair use?" > TL;DR - we're about to have open source Claude Code in Rust

@akothari @ivanhzhao @NotionHQ Don’t hate. Pay for it. You went anti customer and optimized for other things, unfortunately.

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

@CrystalHope1979 Felony. Charge them. Restitution for him (gas money).

A family from Brampton thought they’d found the perfect shortcut, dumping a mountain of household trash in a quiet Ontario cornfield. They thought they were being slick—until they realized they’d left behind shipping labels with their full address printed right on them. The farmer who discovered the mess wasn’t looking for a legal battle; he preferred a more personal delivery. He loaded their garbage into his tractor’s front-end loader and drove straight to their suburban driveway. When he knocked, a woman answered and quickly tried to play it cool, denying she was the person named on the packages. But the plan fell apart when a younger girl stepped to the door. The farmer pointed to a discarded toy in the pile and asked, “Is that your stuffed animal?” The girl’s honest nod was all the confirmation he needed. Out of the kindness of his heart, the farmer tipped the loader, returning every bit of the family’s junk right onto their doorstep. The lesson is clear: you can try to outsmart a farmer, but you’ll never outwork one. 🚜 Don’t mess with the people who feed you!

@lukepierceops All frontier tech.

Anthropic and OpenAI are both building PE-backed consulting arms to deploy AI inside companies. Let that sink in for a second. The two companies building the most powerful AI on earth looked at the market and said "businesses can't figure out how to use this. We need to go in and do it for them." They are literally telling you where the gap is. Companies have access to the best AI models ever built. And most of them are still running on spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and manual processes because nobody showed them how to actually implement it. That's the whole game right now. Not building better models (obviously) or shipping new features. IMPLEMENTATION. Getting AI inside real workflows. Mapping the processes, building the systems, and making it stick. I've been doing exactly this for 4 years and have worked with 80+ companies at this point. It started with automation and naturally flowed into Ai. And every single engagement starts the same way. Not with AI or automation but with a process map. Because AI alone won't fix broken operations. Companies now understand that. They have not yet seen true ROI from Ai. You have to understand how the business actually runs before you touch a single tool. Where does the data live? Where are the bottlenecks? What's manual that shouldn't be? What breaks when volume goes up? That's the work, and that's what Anthropic and OpenAI just told the entire market is worth billions. Every company is going AI-first over the next 3-5 years. The demand for people who can actually make that happen is about to be unlike anything we've seen. The labs told you where the gaps are. Now go fill them.

@BenArendi Check out @Yotpo depending what you're trying to achieve. MailChimp had some limited functionality. Email is fragile lol

Tech X: is there a way to build in custom UIs (buttons, forms, etc.) into email bodies?

@BenArendi @figma Tried it. Figma is fine

Ain't nobody's safe out in these streets in 2026... including @figma

@ahmetb @SAS Now do Air Canada 😆 Jkjk

how does a billion dollar airline send this email every time someone books a flight lol @sas

Somewhere out there is a guy who uses Notion, Superhuman, OpenClaw on a Mac Mini, Raycast, a mechanical keyboard ($400), Wispr Flow, and gets nothing done every day

we won the Google Build with AI prize track out of 200+ teams at Hack Canada this weekend! 🏆 we built an interactive sandbox for transit design. had such a blast working on both design and frontend for this project yipeee! @transitfanner @evanzyangg @christo28120856

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

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@clairevo Dynamic mock up is the new prd.

PRDs are absolutely dead on teams like Claude. Now they only draft plans, answer questions about plans, store plans as .md in the repo, have a mode specifically to make those plans, have a slash command /plan that invokes it, puts a CTA in their “Cowork” app to make PRDs wait