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In the meantime, overcome the bear trap with some vibes... This week's mood be like MO NONO AWARE by @haku_circle

@rd_whitley @iii_ronto @southevropa Don't be confused. A ton of state of the art tech companies are founded by Germans (n26, trade republic, n8n, celonis, quantum systems, shopify, palantir...). They simply sit in the US now, because Germany has a huge problem with access to high-risk capital

@iii_ronto @southevropa Either can they. They are quite aware their days of innovation are long gone, the 1800s.

Working at a company where half the people are based in Germany 🇩🇪 and the other half are based in the US 🇺🇸 really gives you a perspective on how both of these people think and work. Germans are super high maintenance to work with, every new idea needs to come w a set of predefined rules and structure before action is taken meanwhile with Americans you give them some crumbs and as long as the idea feels and seems good they will jump into it and solve problems as they go. Germans think the “American way” is inefficient or careless but the reality is that life is rarely predictable and often rewards action and speed over cautiousness or fear of failure. I think Americans are right about this, risk is something to be managed in motion. Action creates information. Yes, the cost might be rework and sometimes chaos but the upside is momentum and learning.

In the last 2 weeks i spend a combined $600 on two cursor plans (Pro+ & Ultra). No way to reset my Ultra before Jan 16 and I surely won't create another account. Working with claude code inside cursor IDE with a plan on claude code now - let's see what all this buzz is about 😁

@NanouuSymeon Why holding yourself back with a single monitor? 😋

Good morning Developers! Do you have a lot of work today?

@mckaywrigley I switched to it fully on the day it came out on cursor. But had to switch to gpt 5.2 high now due to the cost. I can't afford to run this model anymore after the price change. Have to say though, the I/O and accuracy is insane. I very much enjoyed using it 🥲

Here are my Opus 4.5 thoughts after ~2 weeks of use. First some general thoughts, then some practical stuff. --- THE BIG PICTURE --- THE UNLOCK FOR AGENTS It's clear to anyone who's used Opus 4.5 that AI progress isn't slowing down. I'm surprised more people aren't treating this as a major moment. I suspect getting released right before Thanksgiving combined with everyone at NeurIPS this week has delayed discourse on it by 2 weeks. But this is the best model for both code and for agents, and it's not close. The analogy has been made that this is another 3.5 Sonnet moment, and I agree. But what does that mean? Every few generations we get a major model unlock - a moment that unlocks a new way of working. GPT-4 was the unlock for chat, Sonnet 3.5 was the unlock for code, and now Opus 4.5 is the unlock for agents. Thanks to Opus 4.5, agents can now work reliably on increasingly longer time horizons and get real-world work done on your behalf. Opus 4.5 is like a Waymo. You tell it "take me from A to B", and it takes you there. After a few of these experiences your brain realizes "oh. ok. we live in this world now". And then you're hooked. From that moment on, you'll never work the same way again. THE YEAR OF AGENTS 2025 has been touted as the year of agents, and Opus 4.5 + Claude Agent SDK is the pairing that makes that phrase true. The Claude Agent SDK is the best open secret in AI right now. An agent's harness matters almost as much as its model. If you have a bad harness, then you may as well have a bad model. With the SDK you get a world-class agentic harness out-of-the-box which you can now pair with Opus 4.5 to build real-world agents that actually work. I'm reminded of Alan Kay's quote "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware". The agent version of this is "people who are serious about models should make their own harness". Anthropic clearly believes this, and it's working. The pairing of these tools is magic. I would describe myself as being "unhobblings-pilled", and the Claude Agent SDK + Opus 4.5 is the next major unhobbling. There's now another OOM of new latent economic value stuck in this combo, and it's the job of builders to get it out. If you were bearish on agents, now is the time to turn bullish. "ALL OF THIS IS REAL" "You know what's crazy? That all of this is real". This was Ilya's opening line about the state of AI in his Dwarkesh interview, and I echo that sentiment. I can't believe that Opus 4.5 is real. There have been several times as Opus 4.5's been working where I've quite literally leaned back in my chair and given an audible laugh over how wild it is that we live in a world where it exists and where agents are this good. Nat Friedman has this great question on his website: "Where do you get your dopamine?" Increasingly, I get mine from Claude. LONG ANTHROPIC I saw a post yesterday where someone said that Opus 4.5 was the most important thing to happen to them in their professional career. This will be true for more people going forward. Every year for the past 3 years, Anthropic has grown revenue by 10x. $1M to $100M in 2023, $100M to $1B in 2024, and $1B to $10B in 2025. In Dario's recent DealBook interview he expressed that he wasn't sure if that 10x pattern would hold for 2026. While he's probably right, I do expect Anthropic's revenue at the end of next year to be much higher than everyone expects. It wouldn't surprise me if they passed OpenAI in valuation by early 2027. Opus 4.5 is too good of a model, Claude Agent SDK is too good of a harness, and their focus on the enterprise is too obviously correct. Claude Opus 4.5 is a winner. And Anthropic will keep winning.

@abhitwt ContextManager

i am a Vibe Coder, scare me with one word

@ayushtweetshere @mdnlabs True 😂

@mdnlabs same vibes - x.com/ayushtweetsher…

You could literally - Buy Cursor Pro - Choose a tech stack - Write down your problems – Build a SaaS with AI features – Market to 10,000 users for $15/mo That’s $1.8M a year. Why aren't more doing this?

My Cursor pricing gets out of hand lately - Claude Opus 4.5 High Thinking: 4.1m tokens = $3.72 - Agent Review (small commit): 6.2m tokens = $4.50 I'm on an ULTRA plan and already at $135 in a single day... Don't like this at all - stopped agent reviews right away.

@PrajwalTomar_ Exactly this happened to me gradually since Feb this year. Now I don't touch code anymore, only high level orchestration of agents to outline: research, review and task docs. In general my dev flow moved much more to a context providing specialist and review logic guy...

One thing I’ve noticed about people who say they “don’t code much anymore.” Most of them have been doing this for YEARS. They already understand systems. They already understand databases. They already understand how things break. So when they use AI, they know exactly what to ask and what to fix. The problem is beginners see this and think they can skip the fundamentals. That’s where it goes wrong. AI doesn’t replace understanding. It amplifies it. If you don’t know how things work, you won’t even know when the AI is wrong.

@ericzakariasson @jackfriks Pretty happy with cursor and the improvements you guys did in the past months! Some feedback: - I am subscribed to the ultra plan and two days ago I have hit my limit. I wish you guys would allow renewing the plan ahead of time instead of me going through loops 🥲

you should give it a spin, we've since shipped: - composer (our own model) - plan mode - debug mode - browser - visual editor - faster & better tab - slash commands - agent review in editor - improved sem search - voice mode - hooks - autocomplete in agent - queued messages - better terminal - full mcp support (except sampling) - cloud agents (in slack etc) - tons of performance fixes - improved review and more! cursor.com/changelog

just realized i’ve been paying cursor for the last 6 months in case it becomes good again but i still only use claude code (inside of cursor)

@ResearchKaspa +11.2m KAS are burned kas.fyi/address/kaspa:…

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@binance, Thanks for including me in the top 100 blockchain people list, appreciate the signal! I must decline the Dubai invite though. I do not wish to disrespect, but many of the award voters are avid kaspians who rooted for my kaspa status at least as much as for my research. Let them win or count me out. Crypto has turned from a euphoric cypherpunk project to a house-friendly casino. You may not be the culprit, but as a top player you hold the lion’s share of the responsibility to correct this, and the October crash your USDe oracle glitch helped trigger adds to what needs to be addressed. There are three classes of crypto, as @mert put it recently: commercial crypto, casino crypto, cypherpunk crypto. <> A TBTF CEX should know better and play a different game with hardcore crypto projects. When binance lists a green frog three weeks post its “launch” but skips a fair-launched-Nakamoto-Consensus-100ms-upgrade-ATH-top-20-the-only-nonbitcoin-marathon-mined project, this is not merely binance rationally calculating; it is also binance molding the market in a way that is alas misaligned with the roots of the movement. You may feel that kaspa’s sovereign money thesis is boring – that bitcoin is already money and that implementing an internet-speed bitcoin is useless - fine. Wrong but fine. But what’s the thesis for the green frog? Money is a classic chicken-and-egg product. It is a scam up until one moment before tipping point, “most of the value comes from the value that others place in it.” Considering your resources and influence, I think it's safe to say you can serve as both the egg and the chicken and make it worth your while to push sound attempts towards tipping point. @cz_binance tweeted recently that “strong projects will be listed.” But binance is part of what defines "strong", it bears responsibility for the market’s compass and impulse and definition of strong. It is not a read-only entity. Binance listing fees are legit, they are just unfit for category cypherpunk. Kaspa devs and early supporters fairly mined less than half what satoshi and hals mined. We don’t have a 20% ZEC-style founders’ reward or protocol-enforced dev fund; this is not a jab at ZEC and the wonderful @Zooko, who was crashing in my car on a late Thursday back in the low ZEC MC days – if somebody deserves to win it is zooko – but assuming binance is not taking a maxi bet, it should revisit its relationship with hardcore crypto. We are here through bull and bear, ICOs NFTs XYZs; and we are the source of confidence that restores faith and capital inflow post meme-induced or CEX-induced crashes. Please fix this. Thanks again, hashdag cc @michaelsuttonil Exhibit A: Binance Innovation Zone Exhibit B: 10 bps Nakamoto Consensus

@IamKyros69 Because they are Linux certified 🫰

Why is everyone in tech using a ThinkPad?

@rqobela ABAP...

Programming language you learnd but never used again is...?

@realvijayk @elonmusk @elonmusk 👏

Hey @elonmusk, now that this post hit 420 likes, maybe it's time to look at #Kaspa?

@xfreeze Can you provide the prompt you used as reference?

Grok imagine is insanely good Just created an Apple iPhone ad with flawless transitions, stunning visuals, and immersive sound design

@CrypNuevo That's why you only hold shit you're confident in the long run...

The liquidity has failed, the market system has failed, MM's and exchanges have failed. You can't have the top 20 altcoins dropping 50%-80% in a single candle. And because it was a fast move, most stop losses probably didn't even hit. Literally, the market system failed today.

@mattpocockuk Yeah these .md files start to be quite annoying 😅 have you ever worked with a Jira mcp workflow instead of git issues? If so, anything which makes git come out ahead?

Instead of markdown files, I've been getting my AI to save plans in GitHub issues. Claude Code is AWESOME at using the GitHub CLI. Means you don't have endless THROWAWAY_PLAN.md files spamming the repo.

I typically try all new models once they come out and none can really compete with gpt 5 codex at the moment. Maybe if you have a small project others work well too, but for large projects with complex topics such as SSR, hydration, AWS CDK, TS etc. other models start to struggle. Especially "fast" models since they skip pulling in enough context to make the proper association between all elements of your stack.

I don't understand how anyone can say that Sonnet 4.5/Opus 4.1 are better than GPT-5-Codex. Faster? Sure. Better UX/TUI? Absolutely. But for actual backend coding results, Codex completely outperforms every other model out there.

@realvijayk Keep stacking, nothing else to say. PoW's like Kaspa will come out ahead eventually.

If you're selling your $KAS right now or if you're on the sidelines thinking $KAS is a scam (me 3-4 months ago)... You're NGMI.. Study $KAS.

Keep grinding, that's part of the journey! People will recognise you eventually. Maybe not for your products you have built but maybe for someone who contributed to the ecosystem with a good following on X etc.. You never know where the journey will take you in a couple years but I think it's worth continuing!

I don’t know why I wasted so much time trying to build on $KAS. The community talks a lot but when it comes to actually showing support, things go quiet. 🔴I suggested “Kas Around the World.” Nobody cared. A week later someone else did the exact same thing. 🔴With Kaspong, I saw hype and interest, which motivated me to keep building. But when I asked for help with node issues and SOME technical issues, not enough input to actually resolve it. 🔴When I first mentioned BlockMinerWars, another community member said he was building something similar. I reached out to collaborate, but he wanted to do it solo. 🔴I still went ahead and built BlockMinerWars using only Kas. Lots of people said they supported it, but in the end only 2–3 actually played. I spent around $3k building it, with entry fees going back into the project and devs. 🔴I even created a game with a 1 Kas entry fee and a 1,000 Kas reward (333 per player). Basically, risk 1 $KAS for a chance at 333x if you win. Only 2 people showed interest. 🔴Recently I also proposed reworking the tokenomics so the community wouldn’t have to spend their Kas. I offered a free airdrop token earned by playing the game. Out of a “large” community, barely 15 people gave feedback. My bad for trying to get their input and build something that they would actually enjoy. It’s discouraging. I wanted to build for Kas and had nothing to gain personally, but it feels like there isn’t much genuine interest. If that’s the case, maybe it makes more sense to move BlockMinerWars to $SOL and focus on building it there.