Stop trying to look "Professional."
It is killing the startup brand.
"Perfect" = "Fake." Humans have evolved a new biological filter: "The Anti-AI Defense Mechanism"
Instead, we need to master "The Human Glitch."
0/ Here is the 5-step playbook to weaponize imperfections:
The "Mint Mobile" Effect (Weaponized Transparency)
The "dbrand" Effect (Hostility over Politeness)
The "Nike" Rule (Strategic Suicide)
The Anti-Persona (Who to exclude)
The Open Kitchen Policy
https://t.co/eJ4PSeKIQY
Here’s the email to employees:
Team,
Hope everyone’s doing well and enjoying the productivity enhancements from our AI tooling initiative.
Unfortunately, Finance has asked me to clarify a small issue.
It appears someone, and by “someone” I mean apparently all of you simultaneously, managed to spend $500,000,000 on @claudeai usage in a single month.
For context:
•NASA landed on the moon for less.
•We are now the proud owner of approximately 14% of Anthropic.
•Claude personally sent us a thank-you fruit basket.
•Our CFO has entered a fugue state and only communicates through Slack emojis.
•The electricity usage from your prompts briefly dimmed parts of Northern Virginia.
While we appreciate innovation, there are concerns that:
•“Can you make this email sound slightly warmer?” did not require 11,400 generations.
•Asking Claude to “rewrite this in the style of Succession, Hemingway, and Tony Soprano combined” may have been excessive.
•One employee appears to have used Claude to generate “a quick list of lunch options” that somehow consumed the GDP of a small island nation.
Going forward, please observe the following guidelines:
1Do not upload the entire internet into Claude “for context.”
2If your prompt begins with “simulate every possible outcome,” reconsider.
3Claude should not be used to:
◦settle fantasy football disputes,
◦write your wedding vows 97 times,
◦generate revenge edits of your ex’s LinkedIn bio,
◦or ask “what if Rome had WiFi?”
Most importantly:
If you see the message:
“This request may require additional datacenter construction”
…please stop immediately and contact IT.
Thank you all for your cooperation during this challenging yet technologically groundbreaking time.
Warm regards, Management
P.S. Whoever prompted:
“Generate every possible PR angle for every company founded since 1983”
…we just want to talk.
Frontend Slides skill now has 19k stars on GitHub ✨
I upgraded it with a new design brain: it can now pull from my Beautiful HTML Templates library, pick a visual direction, and generate slides using that template’s design language
Also new:
- Works better with coding agents beyond Claude Code - Export to webpage or PDF for easy sharing
- Inline slide editing
- Fixed 16:9 deck stage to avoid overflow, cropping, and weird responsive chaos
Try now: https://t.co/CiQpficxcD
I cloned a female voice using Qwen3 model for my podcast.
With a 24.7s reference audio. Long segments sounded right. But on short replies, the voice "drifted" to a male voice.
Why:
The reference audio gets encoded into audio tokens and prepended to the model input as a "zeroprompt" prefix. With a 24.7s reference (~1500+ tokens) and only 2 seconds of target output (tens of tokens), the prefix dominates attention. The model can't sustain timbre lock for such a short generation window and falls back to its default speaker prior — which, in a Chinese pretrain corpus, is more often male than female.
Switched the reference to a shorter 16s clip from the same speaker, drift fully gone.
Takeaway:
In voice cloning models that encode the reference as a prompt prefix, reference length should roughly match the target length scale.
A "richer" longer reference isn't always better — for short conversational utterances, it actively hurts.
https://t.co/ZmAvp3wJHT
Very interesting. MiniMax audio do not give you a clear link to cancel your subscription.
it took me 10 minutes, and i don't know where to cancel it.
@MiniMax_AI teach me how to do it.
This is the best part of this podcast:
"working on AI DO NOT NEED brain, it is more about being responsible"
Yao has served as a research scientist at both #Anthropic and #Google#DeepMind, contributing to the development of key models including Claude 3.7, 4.5, and Gemini 3.
I am struggled in hiring
The rarest talent in tech right now:
1⃣ Engineers with real product taste
2⃣PMs who can use AI to ship, not just write PRDs
Doesn’t matter if you’re in SF, London, China, or Singapore.
@CodeWithZeee@TheGeorgePu it is the first plan they will choose to try claude code.
After realizing pro plan can't even finish a small project. They will have to upgrade