George Mbaka

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[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Right now the hottest skill in tech is knowing how to market.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Well, well, well.😂

[Arena.ai @arena]

Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5.

This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1).

In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Simulations, and Content Creation Tools, landing #2 only in Gaming behind Fable 5.

The full model weights will be released by July 27.

Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this major milestone!

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Stop trying to scare people, with vocabularies... Looks like you only got exposed to this ecosystem recently. Hold yourself together man.

[Newton @niutowh_]

@Mugweru_Cfc @KhalifKairo You haven't been exposed to data intensive applications at scale at it shows

How do you verify the clauses output or guide it to the best solution if you don't have domain knowledge

Stop this nonsense

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Thank you @OpenAI for starting this trend.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Do you accept guest posting?

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Upcoming bloggers need to understand that artificial intelligence has changed the business completely, and the era when someone could copy a mainstream media article, add a few comments, throw in extra context and still expect to stand out is quickly coming to an end.

AI tools can now rewrite, summarize, expand and package the same public information within seconds, which means thousands of people can produce almost identical articles from the same source before a traditional blogger has even finished editing the headline.

That competition will keep getting worse, and people are already tired of reading recycled articles, polished summaries and endless AI slop that says the same thing in different words without adding any new information.

The one thing AI cannot replace is a real source who trusts you enough to send information before everyone else gets it, because software can rewrite a leaked memo but it cannot build the human relationship that produced the leak.

Building those sources takes years of consistency, patience and a clear area of interest, until people begin telling themselves that you are the person to contact whenever something happens inside aviation, banking, politics, schools, hospitals or government.

Someone eventually sees your work and thinks, “This person keeps reporting about aviation, let me send him this aviation leak,” and that is how a serious information network slowly begins to grow around a blogger.

A strong story should never end after publication, because the people who relate to it, witnessed something similar or work inside the same institution should start sending more information that creates the next story.

When you publish about one company and employees from other branches begin contacting you, that first story has already started producing the second, third and fourth stories without depending on copied newspaper reports.

A blogger or media platform that publishes stories without those stories attracting new sources, documents, complaints and follow up information is already dying, because it has no living information chain behind it.

The future will belong to people who can get original information, verify it, publish it first and keep earning the trust of sources who know that their material will be handled properly.

AI will remain useful for cleaning grammar, arranging notes, checking structure and speeding up routine work, but it cannot replace access, trust, courage, memory and the ability to know who to call when something happens.

As more people flood the internet with cheap rewritten content, original reporting will become more valuable, not less, because readers will know the difference between someone repeating news and someone actually bringing news.

Any upcoming blogger who is serious must stop thinking only about writing and start thinking about source building, because good English can now be generated by anyone, but good information still has to come from somewhere.

Original content, strong sources and the ability to make one story give birth to many more stories will remain the hardest advantage for competitors to copy, no matter how powerful AI becomes.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

The past few weeks have been amazing.

[Claude @claudeai]

We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

$550,000 is a lot of money to have in student loan debt. Could have started a side hustle business that could help me pay it off as I study.

[Traeyz ♠️ @TraeyzX]

Dave Ramsey: How much student loan debt do you have?

​Caller: About $550,000

​Dave Ramsey: $550,000?

​Caller: Yeah.

​Dave Ramsey: What is your field of study?

​Caller: Medicine. Family practice.

​Dave Ramsey: Why did it take $550,000 to do family practice?

​Caller: Poor decisions and misguided advice early on to not worry about loans.

​Dave Ramsey: Family practice. What are you looking at, a hundred and a half a year?

​Caller: $180,00] starting.

​Dave Ramsey: Why does it take eight years if you're making $180,000? You could live on $80,000, put $100,000 on it, and be done in five years.

​Caller: After taxes and tithing, I'm down to $110,000. We plan to put about $85,000 a year toward it, leaving $20,000 to $30,000 to live off of. With the interest rate, it will take about eight years.

​Dave Ramsey: Your income doesn't go up in your scenario?

​Caller: That is building in a 5% raise every year.

​Dave Ramsey: I think you'll get more raises than that. Can you work ER on the weekends?

​Caller: The place I'm signed with won't let me work other jobs so I don't come in tired. But they said they can put me to work as much as I need.

​Dave Ramsey: You could pick up another $100,000 a year working ER on the weekends if you have the stamina. I want to increase the size of your shovel. I'm not going to accept the eight years; I'm going with a four or five-year plan. And yes, I am going to delay retirement because this is a vast problem.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

My next js application is kinda leaking memory and draining the CPU.

I can't seem to find a bug from the logs either.

I am installing the latest Next js version to see if it can help solve the problem.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

@AdityaShips A VPS + Cloudflare works well.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

This is effective when running a new language.

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

And just like that, OpenAI just killed 100+ startups.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Musing...Mulling... Contemplating... Meandering...Incubating... Deciphering...Crunching...Cerebrating...Percolating...Computing...Germinating..Cogitating...Shyimming...Ruminating...Transmuting...Deliberating...Effecting...Hatching...Forging...Clauding... Ideating...Noodling...

[Mark Essien @markessien]

My uncle who is a rainmaker in the village just signed up for Linkedin and put his profession as Cloud Engineer.

[corbin @corbin_braun]

I really thought AI was the cheat code

I thought competition was going to rise to a level that would be unfathomable.

The one part of the equation I didn’t realize is humanity.

A human could have access to a genius and still do nothing with it.

and it has now become clear to me that AI is a cheat code for only a select few individuals.

And these individuals will be able to build, create and explode at a rate unforeseen in human history.

[sid @immasiddx]

Someone made a song called “Claude’s Plan” inspired by Drake’s God’s Plan.

The AI industry has PEAKED here. 😭

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Big update to managing your past sessions in Hermes Agent.

Now you can prune or archive with a huge array of filters to clean up your session DB without losing anything you don't want to lose.

Get rid of things based on timeframes, models used, users, the working directory the session was in, and much much more.

Just `hermes update` to get access to all the pruning options now.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

I have been testing the Nvidia nemotron 3 provided by Open Router but I can't get the model to handle a simple classification, it can barely follow simple instructions.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Looks like it is meant for large corporate businesses like Amazon, Microsoft and such. Because even if your business is making profit, spending $10 to $50 per million tokens would not make sense from a business perspective, you can't break even.

[Vadim (AI, ⋈) @zacodil]

I'm genuinely confused who Fable 5 is for.

it's $10 / $50 per million tokens. exactly 2x Opus 4.8.

but routine coding and debugging now often gets flagged by the new safety filter and rerouted to... Opus 4.8.

so you pay double, wait for a classifier to inspect your request, and get handed the cheaper model's answer anyway.

What is the point of this model?

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Do you prefer tabs or spaces?

[Gabriel Agana🦍👨🏽‍⚕️ @gaagana_]

You'll go to a tech event and see people pulling out MacBooks and Alienware, you won't even want to remove your laptop from your bag again😂😭

[Paul Graham @paulg]

College students use AI to do most of their writing. An increasing number of professors secretly use it for grading. In the limit case, AIs do all the work, and all the humans do is transmit what they create. A good compiler would recognize this as dead code and remove it.

[George Mbaka @Jorgembaka]

Drama.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude AI model capabilities.