Brian Dickson

Husband, father, data architect, tech enthusiast, @Halo and @Jaguars fan

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Claude Opus 4.8 is out today. It's our strongest coding model yet: up on SWE-bench Pro (from 64.3 to 69.2) and noticeably more honest about its own work. It tells you when it's unsure and catches its own bugs instead of declaring victory early. Same price as 4.7.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.

All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

New blog: Building agents that reach production systems with MCP.

When should agents use direct APIs vs CLIs vs MCP? Plus patterns for building MCP servers, context-efficient clients and pairing MCP with skills.

https://t.co/Q4UrUVgVYB

[Brian Dickson @BrianD1337]

In all seriousness though, Claude Code is transformative for Enterprise Architecture teams.

EA often gets accused of architectures that are purely academic or "pie in the sky."
I'm now proving out and revising my architecture proposals with real PoC implementations.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Mythos is very powerful, and should feel terrifying. I am proud of our approach to responsibly preview it with cyber defenders, rather than generally releasing it into the wild.

Model card here: https://t.co/HjhknJcRKQ

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I wanted to share a bunch of my favorite hidden and under-utilized features in Claude Code. I'll focus on the ones I use the most.

Here goes.

[Roger Ledbetter @rledbetterCPA]

Teaching my daughter about payroll withholding

She did chores all week so I owe her $10

I hand her $7

> this isn't $10

"right, I withheld the rest"

> what does that mean

"I kept $3 of your money"

> but it's my money

"It was your money"

> what are you even doing with it?

"Funding household infrastructure"

> what

"The roof over your head. The hallway you walk through to get to the bathroom. The door locks that keep strangers out"

> you're charging me for the hallway

"I'm charging you for access to the hallway. The hallway itself was a capital expenditure"

> you're my dad. you're supposed to---

"I'm also your government"

> what if I don't want to pay for the hallway

"Then I can't guarantee the hallway"

> it's a hallway. It's already there

"For now"

She asks what else the $3 covers

"Meals, dispute resolution, nightlight maintenance"

> dispute resolution?

"When your brother takes your toys and I make him give them back. That's taxpayer funded"

> that's just parenting

"That's the Department of Justice"

> what about meals. You already feed me

"That's a social program. Not everyone qualifies"

> I'm your daughter

"Which is why you're currently enrolled"

She wants to see where the money goes

I tell her that would require a FOIA request

> what's that

"A form asking me to show you what I do with your money. Processing time is 6 to 8 weeks"

> 6 weeks to see where my $3 went?

"Could be longer. We're understaffed"

> there's two of you

She asks how she gets any of it back

"It's already spent"

> you spent my money already?

"We had a budget shortfall"

> you just took it 20 seconds ago

"And the deficit existed 30 seconds ago. The timing worked out"

> so I'm not getting it back

"I didn't say that. You might qualify for a refund"

> of my own money

"Correct. You just have to fill out a form telling me how much you made"

> you know how much I made. You paid me

"Right but I need you to tell me how much I paid you"

> so you already know the answer

"The point is compliance"

She asks what happens if she gets the number wrong

"Penalty"

> from the money I don't have because you already spent it?

"We could set up a payment plan"

> I'm 8

"Monthly installments. Very manageable"

> you're going to penalize me for getting wrong a number you already know and then make me pay you back with money you took from me

"Now you're getting it"

> I want to talk to mom

"Mom's not a qualified representative. She can't help you here"

She stormed off to her room saying how this is extortion

Slammed the door

That's my little citizen

I've never been more proud

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This story is actually insane:

• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

[Naval Air Station Jacksonville @NASJax1940]

From Jan. 26 to Feb. 6, 2026, NAS Jacksonville will participate in the annual Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain (CS-SC26) exercise. This 2 week exercise is a cornerstone of the Navy's commitment to generating a combat-ready fleet prepared to defend the homeland and prevail in conflict

[SpaceWeatherLive @_SpaceWeather_]

The X1.9 coronal mass ejection has arrived! First indications looks like it is very strong and fast with the Bt increasing to a mindblowing 86nT at maximum and a maximum southward Bz component of -38nT.

Note that due to the ongoing solar proton storm, real time solar wind data from ACE is not reliable! The real-time IMF (Bt, Bz) parameters are accurate.

Expect severe G4 to extreme G5 geomagnetic storm conditions if these values persist.

Follow it live on https://t.co/JLgxfyqYLe

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Yes, I can do this. I will send them left. I will send them right. I will send them down the center. I have no idea what I’m talking about. Good luck Brows.

[NFL @NFL]

The @Jaguars are the 2025 AFC South Champions!

[Jacksonville Jaguars @Jaguars]

Ain't nothing AI about it 🥶

@trevorlawrence | #DUUUVAL

[NFL Unhinged @NFLunhinged]

“I just can’t wait to be king”

[Ado @adocomplete]

I turned the Advent of Claude into a blog post where I could provide additional context, resources, and re-ordered the tips into a more logical order going from startup to advanced capabilities.

[Srishti @srishticodes]

Stanford just made a $200,000 AI degree free.

No application.
No tuition.
No “elite access”.

Stanford released its actual AI/ML curriculum on YouTube.
Not a PR-friendly intro.
Not “AI for the public”.

This is the real thing.
The same lectures shaping people working on frontier models.

What just became public:

Deep Learning (CS230)
→ https://t.co/DUtL9MO6Y7

Transformers & LLMs (CME295)
→ https://t.co/gN57biwLsE

Language Models from Scratch (CS336)
→ https://t.co/GnH11pPBdW

ML from Human Feedback (CS329H)
→ https://t.co/X9nxEX6PNg

Computer Vision (CS231N)
→ https://t.co/oBxKKWZP22

LLM Evaluation & Scaling
→ https://t.co/1tDpw9ArTq

The uncomfortable truth:

The degree isn’t the scarce asset anymore.
Execution speed is.

Top schools know this.
That’s why they’re publishing the playbook.

👉 Bookmark this.
Comment the first lecture you’ll actually watch.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

BREAKING: Airbus aircraft MAY be temporarily grounded due to a flight control issue stemming from “intense solar radiation.”

This will likely apply to about 6,000 jets, or half the global fleet.

This comes in the aftermath of JetBlue flight 1230 on October 30, which was heading from Cancún to Newark. A sudden, uncommanded pitch down and drop in altitude occurred, injuring 15 to 20 passengers. The flight diverted to Tampa.

One of the aircraft’s elevator/aileron computers — known as ELAC 2 — had malfunctioned. Now, Airbus officials believe that may be tied to corrupted flight control data. The culprit for that corruption? “Intense solar radiation.”

Here’s what Airbus wrote:

Toulouse, France, 28 November 2025 – Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

Airbus has consequently identified a significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.

Airbus has worked proactively with the aviation authorities to request immediate precautionary action from operators via an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) in order to implement the available software and/or hardware protection, and ensure the fleet is safe to fly. This AOT will be reflected in an Emergency Airworthiness Directive from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

Airbus acknowledges these recommendations will lead to operational disruptions to passengers and customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will work closely with operators, while keeping safety as our number one and overriding priority.

[Brian Dickson @BrianD1337]

Very sad, worst possible timing. Looks likely that #2 engine would have ingested smoke/fire/debris. No way to avoid the crash if thrust was lost on second engine. Is this the end of the trijet?

[Pete Muntean @petemuntean]

NEW IMAGES of the left engine of UPS 2976 separating and going *up and over* the wing. The just-released NTSB preliminary report says the left engine pylon hardware showed signs of fatigue cracks and over-stress failure. More to come.

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Didn’t hit high.
Didn’t hit low.
Didn’t hit with head.
Didn’t land body weight on him.

Looks like he might actually brace the fall with his right arm.

It’s hard enough to get to the QB as it is,
let’s not take away clean sacks from guys.

This is still football…

[Sumanth @Sumanth_077]

AI Engineering Toolkit!

I have curated a list of 100+ LLM libraries and frameworks for training, fine-tuning, building, evaluating, deploying, RAG, and AI Agents.

Categories of LLM Libraries include:

• Vector Databases – Store and retrieve embeddings efficiently.
• Orchestration & Workflows – Chain tools and LLM calls, manage pipelines.
• Agent Frameworks – Build autonomous and multi-step agents.
• Training & Fine-Tuning – Pretrain, fine-tune, and adapt models.
• Inference & Serving – Run LLMs efficiently on diverse hardware.
• Safety & Security – Guardrails, red-teaming, and policy checks.
• Evaluation & Quality – Test and monitor both LLMs and LLM-powered apps (benchmarks, unit tests, telemetry, feedback).
• Model Management – Versioning, experiment tracking, lineage, and lifecycle management.
• AI App Development – Build UIs and LLM-powered apps quickly with Python-based frameworks.

The toolkit has already hit 2K+ GitHub Stars.

Link to the repo in the comments!