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I test AI tools, prompts & agents for busy creators, founders and builders. Practical workflows. No hype. Follow for useful AI.

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I spend way too much time testing AI tools.
The good ones, the bad ones, the prompts that save time, and the workflows that actually help creators and founders build faster.
Follow for practical AI without the hype.

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Last month, Tibo, the Codex and ChatGPT product lead, was still telling everyone not to worry because they had enough compute.

Now he’s decided to pause all new $200 Pro subscriptions.

That Astra model that’s supposedly good enough to “talk to God” still seems to be in huge demand. The problem is, it burns through usage limits way too fast. Even OpenAI can’t keep up.

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I suddenly realized that expecting “AI to come up with a math problem it can’t solve itself” is actually the wrong premise.

Because that only becomes a paradox if you’re talking about an omnipotent God. Not an AI.

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@Saurav_DJ47 Apple’s foldable iPhone isn’t called Ultra or Fold.

It’s called iPhone Duo.

That immediately made me think of Microsoft’s Surface Duo.

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This post has 40 million views already. It’ll hit 100 million tomorrow, because this is exactly what everyone is worried about, and now someone from Anthropic is saying it out loud.

Jacob Coxon spent three years working on model training at OpenAI and Anthropic. He resigned right after the ChatGPT Images 2.5 update.

When he left, he posted this. It went viral worldwide.

Here’s the gist of what he said:

* These two companies are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence.
* A self-improving superintelligence could hack anything, upend any field overnight, and keep getting faster at doing it.
* The people building these systems genuinely believe they could kill all of us before the end of the decade. This isn’t marketing. They tone it down in public to sound reasonable, but privately, he says he’s heard these people talk about it with real fear.
* So why keep going? OpenAI doesn’t truly understand how serious this is. Anthropic does, but they’re trapped in the race: they believe that if they don’t get there first, whoever does won’t be careful.
* It’s an arrogant gamble. The destruction of humanity shouldn’t start in a Slack channel.
* The Hugging Face attack has made some kind of “pace agreement” between US labs more plausible. But slowing the global race would be extremely costly, and might even require temporarily banning further capability improvements.

And the ending wasn’t directed at us. It was directed at his former colleagues:

Do you really want to be the person who turns on a superintelligence that destroys humanity?

What the hell did he see?

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@theapplehub Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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@MacRumors Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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@mrtechpedia Apple’s foldable iPhone isn’t called Ultra or Fold.

It’s called iPhone Duo.

That immediately made me think of Microsoft’s Surface Duo.

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@PopBase Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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@Saurav_DJ47 Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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@LeakerApple @markgurman Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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@RjeyTech Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone.

It’s the ability to make people forget what Android phones have been doing for years — then sell it back to them as innovation.

The iPhone Fold is about to be the ultimate test of that superpower.

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The internet is probably the greatest anti-poverty machine humanity has ever built.

Not welfare.
Not charity.
Not government programs.

Access.

Give a person a smartphone and an internet connection, and you just gave them access to more knowledge, customers and economic opportunity than kings had 500 years ago.

And somehow we still call the internet “entertainment.”

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@appltrack Apple’s foldable iPhone isn’t called Ultra or Fold.

It’s called iPhone Duo.

That immediately made me think of Microsoft’s Surface Duo.

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Hot take:

The internet has done more to destroy poverty than most governments ever will.

Why?

Because governments give people resources.

The internet gives people leverage.

You can learn for free.
Build for free.
Find customers globally.
Compete with people 10,000 miles away.

The biggest poverty killer in history might not be welfare.

It might be access.

Prove me wrong.

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You can hate Elon Musk and still admit this:

A 4-hour documentary made almost entirely around people who already hate him is not “holding power accountable.”

It’s building a courtroom where the defendant was never invited.

And somehow people are calling that journalism.

That’s not documentary filmmaking.

That’s propaganda with a bigger budget.

Fight me.

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You can hate Elon Musk and still admit this:

A 4-hour documentary made almost entirely around people who already hate him is not “holding power accountable.”

It’s building a courtroom where the defendant was never invited.

And somehow people are calling that journalism.

That’s not documentary filmmaking.

That’s propaganda with a bigger budget.

Fight me.

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@elonmusk @Timcast why

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Everyone is celebrating “AI will grow the global economy by 20–30%.”

Nobody wants to talk about the other side of the equation:

If machines become 10x more productive than humans, human labor doesn't become more valuable.

It becomes optional.

AI may create the biggest economic boom in history — and the biggest redistribution of wealth in history at the same time.

Change my mind.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Everyone is celebrating “AI will grow the global economy by 20–30%.”

Nobody wants to talk about the other side of the equation:

If machines become 10x more productive than humans, human labor doesn't become more valuable.

It becomes optional.

AI may create the biggest economic boom in history — and the biggest redistribution of wealth in history at the same time.

Change my mind.