Rick Hightower

Can’t wait to start hitting the gym again!

She said she was a 5 But to me she was a 10 Miss you Claude Fable 5, come back 🥲

@CodeWithAmann Claude

Imagine Claude and ChatGPT both launched unlimited plans for $1000/month. which one are you choosing?

@1Umairshaikh I prefer Claude Code. I love codex too.

Why do people use Codex when Claude exist Seriously Whyyyy????

Are you team Codex or Claude Code? My answer! @rickhightower/note/c-276205256?r=7wi5g&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@rickhightower…

@ronisarkar_exe Grok Build or Codex. 20 dollars doesn’t go too far on the other ones.

Developers, you have $20. Which one are you buying? – Claude – Codex – Cursor

NEW: Inside the 24-hrs before WH slapped export controls on Anthropic - Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about Fable jailbreak to Trump admin - Friday AM, Sean Cairncross, Bessent, Susie etc. held WH call to discuss - Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat. - When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett. -Amodei tried to clear up what he assumed was a misunderstanding. He defended the guardrails and distinguished between universal and non-universal jailbreak - Cairncross and Bessent were unmoved and asked Amodei to take down Fable and work with the admin to fix the vulnerabilities. (A WH official said Amazon’s findings were run past the NSA and they felt they had “proof.”) - Amodei asked for more time and info, but he made no commitments to pull the model - Bessent told Amodei directly at one point that he was making a “bad decision” - By Friday evening, the Trump admin imposed its export controls. - “Export controls were a last resort after begging them for hours to work with us,” senior WH official said. W/ @cheyennehaslett politico.com/news/2026/06/1…

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

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Are you team Claude or Codex or Gemini right now?

I use codex to review plans. And to review work. Unless I run out of subscription for the week then codex becomes my primary. My primary is Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Live Artifacts to manage projects. I really love live artifacts. I have and sometimes do use opencode and was using Gemini CLI. I am still salty about them EOL Gemini CLI. I tried the older version of antigravity and was very impressed. I won’t use the new antigravity CLI for a minute. Still salty and there is so much out there. I do use Gemini deep research and NotebookLM. I am a big fan of Perplexity computer use and their deep research. I am considering investing in the perplexity personal computer. Claude is my go to especially after they doubled the usage after SpaceX hosting. I am double max and try to use Claude as much as possible. I use ChatGPT for image generation, summarizing stuff, and getting a second opinion. I use grok if I want to review a contract or compare two versions of a document, etc. I have used Grok Build but not the latest latest but this is the one that I think will eclipse a lot of the rest. Codex desktop seems interesting. It is so hard to keep up and when it is this competitive, I am not sure why Google would abruptly EOL the Gemini CLI. A lot of tools ported Claude plugins and their ilk to Gemini CLI, Codex and OpenCode and then they just vanished. Stupid move. Pissed off a lot of developers. Gemini CLI was getting better and better and then they just killed it. Really? open.substack.com/pub/rickhigh/p… like subscribe and follow. :)

Breaking AI News: Amazon Triggered The Anthropic Fable Shutdown. Europe and India Now Worry AI Model Access an Operational Risk .... According to reporting, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally raised concerns with the White House … suggesting Anthropic’s Fable 5 could be (used) for cyberattack(s). This led to the government export controls and Anthropic pulling Fable 5 model. open.substack.com/pub/rickhigh/p…

Grok Build: The Fourth Contender in the AI Coding Agent Race open.substack.com/pub/rickhigh/p… Grok Build vs. Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code. May the battle begin! Grok Build comes out swinging fists from the hip! Competition is good for builders because every new contender forces the coding-agent giants to confront the pain developers already feel: blown context windows, runaway token costs, slow sequential workflows, and brittle integrations. With Grok Build entering public beta against Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode, this is no longer just a feature race: it is war. This is pressure on the entire market to make AI agents faster, cheaper, more interoperable, and actually useful on real codebases. Rest in peace Gemini CLI. We had some good times together.

AI News Volume 1: The AI Agent War Is No Longer About the Smartest Model open.substack.com/pub/rickhigh/p… Volume 1: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, and Perplexity are all racing to own the runtime layer where AI agents actually get work done.

LinkedIn is going to be *pissed* when they find out about Fable next week

This is really big news. Google introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) - a standardized way to store information in a directory of markdown files. Makes it really easy to make a digital brain that agents can use. These files can serve as a living wiki. You can give agents the ability to query them or edit them. They can interlink. Seems to me this could replace Notion or Obsidian. I can think of so many uses for this. Google's blog post: cloud.google.com/blog/products/… An easier to understand explanation is the SPEC.md file: github.com/GoogleCloudPla… I gave those two links to Antigravity and asked how we could use it for any of the projects we're working on. It came up with so many ideas. I would imagine Claude Fable 5 would whip up some pretty amazing things based on this system. Currently creating an OKF library of our pepper garden. It's going to be a fun weekend.

@PeteHegseth @MartinShkreli @DeptofWar @AnthropicAI Dario is a dick, but you are still handicapping yourself by not using Claude models. Don’t let interpersonal nonsense get in the way of arming our nation with the best possible tools.

@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar @AnthropicAI When can Americans expect to have their access to frontier models restored?

@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar @AnthropicAI It seems like you have it out for them and are trying to prove a point by attacking them financially. (I'm a Trump supporter btw.) Posts like this make the current situation seem vindictive more than some concern for public and national safety.

@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar @AnthropicAI Idk how we could possibly claim to be in an ai arms race with China that we’re trying to win while we actively kneecap one of our strongest research teams

If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media

@ClaudeDevs Running jobs through the night. Thanks.

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