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[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

Anyone else suddenly getting this response while using Opus 5.5 today?

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[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@thesamparr The strongest signal: the founder of Yoast SEO moved his own blog off WordPress a while ago.

His take: most simple sites don’t need a CMS once AI can edit and deploy a static site for you.

WordPress isn’t dead. But the admin panel may be.

https://t.co/ghjuQaKIkg

[Joost de Valk @jdevalk]

I built Yoast SEO. I ran my blog on WordPress for years. Then yesterday I moved it to static HTML.

Everything that matters, SEO, search, schema, is still there. What I dropped was the overhead.

Do you actually need a CMS? For quite some sites: no.

https://t.co/ISpgh3fHc6

[anabology @anabology]

Gave Opus 5.5 donald's prompt, Midjourney, and a moodboard

12 hours later, woke up to this:

[Brett Caughran @FundamentEdge]

A big pivot from Ken Griffin on AI:

“Number one is, in the last few months, there has been a step change in the productivity of the AI toolkit. It is profoundly more powerful than it was just nine months ago.

And for us at Citadel, that has allowed us to unleash a much broader array of use cases for AI. And it has been really interesting to watch, to be blunt, work that we would usually do with people with masters and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days.

These are not these are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high skilled jobs being, I'm going to pick a word, automated by agentic AI. And I gotta tell you, I went home one Friday actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society.

When you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man years of work being done in days or weeks, it's like, wow, like that's the first time I've seen real impact in our four walls.”

This echoes my own experience with agents and the conversations I am having with students, friends & clients. The toolkit has dramatically transformed and it feels like in finance, for the first time, AI is real.

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[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

Vibe Island has been growing on me. If you're always running a few coding agents at once, worth a look. Lives in the Mac notch, lets you watch and approve the whole lot at a glance. One-time $20, no subscription. https://t.co/MkajJ9npb7

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

2021: it can’t even autocomplete a line
2022: it can’t even write a whole function
2023: it can’t even pass a coding interview
2024: it can’t even build an app
2025: it can’t even handle complex projects
2026: oh no

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@anything

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@anything

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Microsoft’s (and many other traditional software vendors’) bet that people will want each app infused with its own focused AI is looking like a bad one in the face of Codex, Antigravity, and Claude Code. People like to delegate to an agent that works across apps to do tasks.

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

Really excited about this! Google AI Studio is already a great tool, and I'd be super interested in testing the new UI.

One of the biggest pain points for me in the current design is how much screen space goes unused — lots of wasted margins (screenshot attached). Also, chat/file names get truncated way too early and there's no way to resize columns, which makes managing longer projects frustrating.

Looking forward to seeing how this new version addresses that — happy to jump on a call and share feedback!

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@mattyp @mattyp - Can you please link me to the video?

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@JoshMandell6 Why Monday?

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@RealVisionBot Mind sharing the prompt for this image?

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@TaylorK88114500 @TaylorK88114500 - Cool, report. Where did you pull this from?

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@TaylorK88114500 Gotcha. What is the source on the margin call info? — I’m just interested in learning more about this.

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@TaylorK88114500 @TaylorK88114500 - Where are you able to pull short interest figures like this?

[Tommy Fountain @TommyFountain]

@supplyshocks @ChrisBTC2000 What are you using to monitor the levels of short interest?