Murali Dharan

Where Is #AI Taking Us? Eight Leading Thinkers Share Their Visions. nytimes.com/interactive/20… @nytopinion

I cancelled $500/month in SaaS subscriptions last week. Replaced all of them with Notion + Claude in one afternoon. Here's how to connect them and 12 prompts that build everything for you (Save for later):

Reflecting on what engineers love about Claude Code, one thing that jumps out is its customizability: hooks, plugins, LSPs, MCPs, skills, effort, custom agents, status lines, output styles, etc. Every engineer uses their tools differently. We built Claude Code from the ground up to not just have great defaults, but to also be incredibly customizable. This is a reason why developers fall in love with the product, and why Claude Code's growth continues to accelerate. I wanted to share a few ways we're seeing people and teams customize their Claudes.

Anthropic just walked into Microsoft's house and asked for the keys. Cowork launched on macOS a month ago. Within weeks, The Information reported the launch "reverberated through Microsoft's ranks." Now Anthropic is bringing full feature parity to Windows, the platform Microsoft has spent $60M+ in TV ads and $37.5B per quarter in AI capex trying to own with Copilot. The math on Microsoft's side is brutal. 450 million Microsoft 365 paid seats, 15 million Copilot subscribers. That's a 3.3% conversion rate on their own customer base. Copilot's paid market share dropped from 18.8% to 11.5% in six months while the product was pre-installed on every Windows 11 machine on earth. They spent billions and 96.7% of users said no. The reason is structural. Copilot inherits Microsoft 365's file permission system through the Graph API. If your company has lax internal permissions (and most do, with 15%+ of business-critical files improperly accessible), Copilot surfaces sensitive data to anyone who asks. Enterprises are pausing deployments to run months-long data governance audits before they can turn the thing on. Cowork sidesteps this entirely. Sandboxed to a single folder you designate. No enterprise-wide permission architecture required. No Graph API inheritance. You point Claude at a directory and describe the outcome. Anthropic built it in a week and a half using Claude Code, which tells you everything about how they view the marginal cost of shipping new surfaces. This is the classic platform unbundling play: find the incumbent's structural weakness (Microsoft's permission nightmare), build a product that routes around it (folder-scoped agent), and land on their platform (Windows) before they can fix the root cause. Microsoft can't simplify Copilot's permission model without rebuilding how M365 handles file access across tenants. That takes years. Anthropic is converting Microsoft's demand generation into Claude subscriptions. At $100-200/month for Max, they only need a fraction of those 450 million seats to build a massive business on Microsoft's home turf.

Create apps shaped exactly around your specific needs and context. That's what Essential Apps are. You describe what you need. AI builds it. It appears on your phone's home screen, ready to use. One billion apps for one billion people. Beta starts today on Nothing Playground.

Examples are now pouring in about AI-assisted Code Engineering productivity. The quoted post is a Bhagwad Gita app. Anthropic has built an entire C compiler with their Claude AI. That is not an easy engineering feat at all. At this point, it is best for those of us who depend on writing code for a living to start considering alternative livelihoods. I include myself in this. I don't say this in panic, but with calm acceptance and embrace. As a matter of fact, I did a detailed session with Gemini Pro on how the economy will be shaped by the AI revolution. It was like having an extremely intelligent economic philosopher debating you. I asked it to critique its own work and it did a fantastic job too. As Gemini and I developed see this, the future could unfold in two ways, depending on who owns and collects rent on this technology. The optimist in me thinks that this technology will make most technological prowess by humans redundant and that would push tech to the background (all tech become trivial, like digital watches today) and we then get to focus on life, family, soil, water, nature, art, music, culture, sports, festivals and faith (faith is important), and that is best done in small close-knit rural communities. I live a life like this today and if we solve rural poverty, I consider this a very good life. The pessimistic dystopian vision is centralized control. Here is my Gemini chat session on this. You can continue the session on Gemini and see where it all goes. g.co/gemini/share/6…

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You can now make Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and other coding agents 10x more powerful by giving them long‑term memory! It just takes a single line of code. Here’s a step‑by‑step breakdown (100% local):

Nayara Energy Limited has withdrawn its petition before the Delhi High Court against Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd after the tech major restored services that had been abruptly discontinued, leading to the resolution of the dispute between the parties. The dispute arose after Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd abruptly suspended its services to Nayara Energy Limited, a private Indian oil refiner partly owned by Russia’s Rosneft. Read the details: barandbench.com/news/litigatio… #DelhiHighCourt #Arbitration #Microsoft #NayaraEnergy

Google just released MCP Toolbox for Databases to build AI Agents with database access. Integrate tools to your AI agent in less than 10 lines of Python code with built-in connection pooling, and authentication 100% Opensource.

How do LLMs actually work? LLMs power AI applications like ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude to generate human-like text and assist with complex tasks. Credit to @NikkiSiapno #infosec #cybersecurity #cybersecuritytips #CyberSec #networking #infosecurity #cybersecurityawareness

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moved entire CI pipeline - around 60+ configurations to own hardware, expenses $35 per month. The hardware is super powerful - 64gb + 32 cores + 512gb with RAID nvme if we were to run same thing either in cloud or as gh-runners, things would be super amazingly costly.

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Here is the biggest lesson you can take away home today: Life runs on loops. Thoughts, habits, systems. Design loops that reinforce themselves. Businesses that grow while you sleep. Decisions that sharpen over time. Master the loops, master life.

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