Arc Mainnet is live. Now look up.
Tonight, 850 drones will illuminate the San Francisco skyline above the Ferry Building, telling the story of Arc, the Economic OS for the internet.
The show points to what comes next: up to $1M for eligible teams building on Arc.
Fast settlement. USDC-powered transactions. Agentic payments. Builders around the world.
Watch live on X tonight.
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So I decided to study inference engineering and started with the fundamentals first. Studied about how the operating system abstracts the programs through processes. https://t.co/PYrhbdXRU4
I asked Astra to create a Catan game in three.js and it came out incredibly well.
I played it, and the animations make it so much fun. The instructions and info cards make the game easy to learn. It even has AI players and trading.
Astra used another game I had started building as a reference. The more games I build, the more skills and assets I have for the next one. It can remix the UI, 3D models, pages, and sounds instead of rebuilding everything.
Now I want to see how many other board games I can make from this foundation.
China published the most uncomfortable paper on vibe coding.
ETH Zurich tested 100 developers in a controlled, commercial-grade vibe coding environment to see who actually succeeds.
The findings are brutal.
The researchers tracked computer science achievement, written communication skills, and general cognitive reasoning.
They wanted to see what actually predicts vibe coding proficiency when you never touch a line of source code yourself.
Two major predictors emerged.
Written communication proficiency mattered. The ability to structure thoughts and articulate intent unambiguously in text directly impacts what the AI builds.
But that wasn't even the main takeaway.
Computer science achievement was a massive, dominant predictor of success.
Even when researchers controlled for general intelligence and reasoning skills, CS background still heavily dictated who built working software and who completely crashed.
In fact, CS knowledge contributed roughly twice the unique predictive variance of writing skills alone.
Why? Because vibe coding isn't about writing code. It’s about debugging logic.
When an AI agent builds a complex application and quietly breaks an edge case under the hood, a non-technical user looks at the glowing UI and assumes it works.
They don't know what questions to ask. They don't know what logic to challenge. They lack the mental models to recognize architectural catastrophe.
You can prompt your way past syntax.
You cannot prompt your way past a fundamental lack of engineering intuition.
The hype told us that learning to code is dead because language is all you need.
The data just proved the opposite.
To truly master the vibe, you still need to understand how the machine thinks.
People seem to love the bouncy jelly, so I made this Jelly Baby game with Astra in @threejs, go play with it live here🥰:
https://t.co/mc4kSIRw9W
source code: https://t.co/kyJLNivwIc
Spotify's engineering team cut Claude Code token usage by 90% with a two-model routing approach they call Portal. The mechanism is worth understanding because it's not prompt engineering, it's hard blocks at the architecture level.
Two cheaper "assistant" models handle the tasks that don't need the expensive model: opening files, writing repetitive code, boilerplate. The expensive model only touches novel reasoning. Files over 350 lines get blocked from the expensive model entirely, not suggested away from it, blocked.
They tried rules-as-instructions first. It didn't hold. Engineers (and the model) found ways around soft rules. Hard blocks at the routing layer worked where prompt-level guidance failed.
90% token reduction is a big number. The implication is that most of what people use frontier models for in a coding workflow doesn't actually require frontier-level reasoning. Routing to capability level rather than defaulting to the best model available is a legitimate architecture pattern.
Article is worth reading in full.
https://t.co/4Kd8y24ILo
Astra solved launch videos!?
Building products has never been easier but now GPT 6 Astra can make marketing content like this in 5 minutes with @fal H3 Max!!!
App Store Connect CLI 5.0.0 is out!! 🤩
One of the biggest releases I have ever shipped, and one I am so proud of. A whole AI week went into this.
There is a LOT here. Let me show you what all new you can do now:
https://t.co/RuXh8T3xK2