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@devdiary0x @om_patel5 It’s called KISS and it’s opposite to bad in most cases
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@om_patel5 Just hope it doesnt write caveman code
"code too tuff, me write easy code"
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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

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@RbdJellyfish Congrats man. In an ocean full of slop, good to see people still building real stuff.
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@ThePrimeagen I'm building a game engine in C
x.com/gdechichi/stat…
Gabriel Dechichi@gdechichi
just finished my ECS system in C and it turns out it's ~17x faster than @unity DOTS on the web that's 100k boids at ~90 FPS instead of 17 FPS sharing the code and link for this demo soon, details below 🧵
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@masterbugstudio @PixelFrogStudio Looks good! But is it handcrafted, AI or hybrid?
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My first demo of a game I’ve been passionately working on.
I don't have any follower but still hope someone like it! then maybe I’ll keep posting updates here.
Big thanks to @PixelFrogStudio for the Tiny Sword assets.
#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame
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@CescQuintero @ChShersh Looks like the full enum behind dating app replies lol
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I've just seen the 2nd-worst enum in my life

Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh
I've just seen the worst enum in my life
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🚨 BREAKING: Someone just rebuilt the entire AI assistant stack in Zig.
It's called NullClaw. The binary is 678 KB. It uses ~1 MB of RAM. It boots in under 2 milliseconds.
No runtime. No VM. No framework. No garbage collector. Just raw Zig.
Here's why this is absurd:
→ OpenClaw needs a $599 Mac Mini and 1 GB+ RAM
→ NanoBot needs 100 MB+ RAM and Python
→ PicoClaw needs 10 MB RAM and Go
NullClaw runs on a $5 board with 1 MB of RAM.
Same functionality. 0.1% of the resources.
Here's what's packed into that 678 KB:
→ 22+ AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, DeepSeek, Groq, etc.)
→ 13 chat channels (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, IRC)
→ 18+ built-in tools
→ Hybrid vector + keyword memory search
→ Multi-layer sandboxing (Landlock, Firejail, Docker)
→ Hardware peripheral support (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, STM32)
→ MCP, subagents, streaming, voice, the full stack
Here's the wildest part:
Every subsystem is a vtable interface. Swap any provider, channel, tool, memory backend, or runtime with a config change. Zero code changes.
It even encrypts your API keys with ChaCha20-Poly1305 by default.
2,738 tests. ~45,000 lines of Zig. Zero dependencies beyond libc.
100% Open Source. MIT License.

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@TheGeorgePu It seems the best way for AI companies to make money is through insider trading and shorting the market on hype news rather than, you know, building a sustainable business model lol
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@gdechichi Great read, I completely agree on that. I’m a little bit old-fashioned (or rigid lol) so I don’t use AI assistants to write code or solve issues, unless I’m in rush. But man, I cannot appreciate more having it to learn new things or just explain how/why certain things work.
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