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american dynamism 🇺🇸 // ai & tech

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

we’re in the ASS era

(AI Slop Startups)

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

wtf is this.

i though nikita was supposed to fix the algorithm

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

@drewiustinai slop replies
slop qt
slop caption
slop launch
slop “biz”

i swear i’ve seen 20 of these “first vibe business” launches. just have claude build you a business plan.

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

anyone checked in on openai?

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

never leaving this app

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

“absolutely” lol

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

We’ve been cooking.

2 updates in the Codex app 👇

You can now personalize the Codex app with themes that match your taste.

Import themes you like or share your own.

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

@Rasmic good search is the foundation of everything else. so they’ve built that and can now build great products on top

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

me watching claude code work knowing full well i have no clue what’s happening and im just going to hit “yes, auto-accept edits”

[will o’brien @Willob]

while the US is clearly winning the air game, one of the greatest threats to the US Navy in CENTCOM right now is mines

iran holds one of the world's largest stockpiles of mines. everything from russian contact mines to rocket-propelled devices.

two people on a speedboat can deploy them. low cost, nearly impossible to detect.

mine-sweeping is a known weakness of the US military
the US has just three ships in the region converted for the job

if the strait of hormuz gets mined, the impact on global trade would be catastrophic and the navy's ability to project power would be severely limited

We're not going to be able to get more minesweeping ships in there in time, but we could get more UUVs in there to enhance the capabilities of the existing minesweepers.

cheap, attritable UUVs, mass-manufacturable, equipped with advanced perception, and capable of robotically intervening without putting a sailor in the water.

counter asymmetry with asymmetry.

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

@Wisdom_HQ legends

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@jasonjoyride @a16z @KTmBoyle 🇺🇸🫡

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

@MarioNawfal monitoring

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

Yes, I did vote for American weapons supremacy hype videos.

I expect nothing less

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

this is crazy ngl

[Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam]

🚨 Perplexity just dropped their own OpenClaw version.

And the timing couldn't be more perfect.

OpenClaw got suspended by Google this week.
219,000 GitHub stars. Cut off. Just like that.

Then Perplexity launched Perplexity Computer.

Here's what Perplexity Computer actually is:
→ 19 AI models working in parallel.
→ Claude for reasoning. Gemini for research.
→ 17 other models handling everything else.

All in one browser. No local setup. No terms of service drama. No Google pulling the plug.

It can:
→ Research and analyze — NVIDIA earnings to market reports
→ Design, code and deploy web apps end to end
→ Connect to Google Workspace, Slack and GitHub
→ Handle files with persistent memory across sessions
→ Run autonomously in the cloud while you do something else

OpenClaw ran locally on your machine.
Perplexity Computer runs in the cloud on 19 models simultaneously.

OpenClaw got suspended the same week Perplexity shipped its replacement.

Timing is everything.

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

what it feels like working in ai rn

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6 months ago companies were screaming about AI safety and blocking AI agents

now they’re handing agents md files of sites

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just think, there’s someone out there right now, touching grass, who has no idea Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex dropped today

what a life that must be

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

tbh the Anthropoc SB commercials aren’t that great.

they focus on “no ads” but don’t talk about any dealt value they provide users.

plus i haven’t heard any normies complaining about ads in chatgpt

this what happens when you do marketing in an echo chamber

no AI company has figured out mass consumer marketing yet

we need Ramp-level marketing for AI

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

@steipete Lfg. Can’t wait!

[mtb @midwesttechbro]

@airesearchtools Everyone doing skills now