Benjikkelson

12+ Product Engineer | Building 🛠 🚢

[Benjikkelson @BenjiDeFi]

Let the AI cook while you eat. 🍔💻

[Arkham @arkham]

If you bought Coal on Runescape 1 year ago you outperformed Ethereum

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@CryptoLeven You pulled it?

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@KingDegen0x Fawaka

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@birdabo Lmao

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@vangoyaa RIP

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@elonmusk Wow, my girlfriend can bring her paintings to life, and my nephew can bring his coloring pages to life

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@pika_labs TIP: If you're on Vercel, you actually don't need a maintenance page! Every deploy is atomic: the old version stays live until the new one is 100% built. Instant rollback if anything goes wrong. Zero downtime out of the box 🚀

Only exception: breaking DB migrations, but even then, feature flags or backward-compatible migration strategies beat a full maintenance page.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

Anthropic tried to kill 8,100 GitHub repos. Then this happened

> They filed a DMCA. GitHub nuked the entire network within hours. Developers got notices for forks of Anthropic's OWN public repo - one guy's fork had zero leaked code.

> Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, had to go on X personally: "This was not intentional. Should be better now."

> Meanwhile Sigrid Jin - who used 25 billion Claude Code tokens last year - woke up at 4AM and rewrote the entire thing in Python before sunrise. DMCA can't touch a clean-room rewrite.

> It hit 50K stars in 2 hours. Fastest repo in GitHub history.

> Today claw-code officially launched as an independent project with a formal press release. And the Rust port merged today - what started as a panic rewrite now ships release 0.1.0.

> 140K stars. 102K forks. More than Anthropic's own repo.

> 512,000 lines are in the wild forever. What started as Anthropic's biggest embarrassment just became their most dangerous competitor.

You cannot make this up.

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All 5 courses. All free. All with an official Anthropic certificate.

MCP alone is worth your weekend.

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Anthropic just dropped 5 free courses for developers 🤯

All 100% free. Official certificate included. No Anthropic account needed.

Here's what's worth your time 🧵👇

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🧩 Introduction to Agent Skills

Write instructions once. Claude applies them automatically.

→ Build reusable Skills in Claude Code
→ Claude loads Skills at the right moment
→ Distribute via version control
→ Troubleshooting & best practices

https://t.co/ThqfjBpmgX

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@korterkortmand 💀💀

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@CryptoLeven 🤝

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Im so getting fired

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

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@jack @blocks Im so getting fired

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@CryptoLeven @Pokemon So little coloring