Zachary Nelson

Obsessed with neural nets & new narratives. Reading Sci-fi in my free time 🤖

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

Real or fake news? Most claims are nonsense. Check official sources. I'm in UAE, streets are calm. Emirati defense is impenetrable.

[sakkiko @0xsakkiko]

A developer burned $170 on Claude Code in 10 days.

"I bought a Mac Mini M4. Haven't paid Anthropic since."

Most people scrolled past.

The smart ones did the math.

$459/month in AI subscriptions.

Or $599 once for a Mac Mini running locally.

Same workflow.

Different economics.

The people making this switch aren’t posting about it.

They’re quietly keeping the difference.

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[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

The engineer who built Claude Code dropped a free 28-minute talk.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover half of what he explains in the first 10 minutes.

CLAUDE.md memory files, parallel sessions, piping Claude like a Unix utility, prompting patterns their whole team uses daily.

One free talk. Straight from the person who built it.

Doesn't matter if you're a developer or a beginner (this will change how you use claude).

Anthropic also just dropped ant CLI - the terminal tool that takes Claude agents from idea to deployed in 4 commands.

Full breakdown in the article below...

[obssnnn @0xObssnnn]

Claude Code's creator:

"a new grad joins and they teach me how to use it better."

20 years an engineer. He uninstalled his code editor in November. But every new model resets him to zero, while a kid who joined last week already runs circles around him.

Knowing the most stopped winning. Learning the fastest did.

That's the whole game now. Here's how to play it with Claude.

[damir akaza @Damir_Akaza]

One CS student shared an interesting insight about Claude Code.

At some point, he realized that the problem wasn't the model itself - it was that Claude often sounded very confident even when it didn't actually know the answer.

So he started building a small system around it:

hooks, verification before edits, a separate fact-checker agent, and a set of rules in CLAUDE.md.

After that, Claude began saying things like:

“I haven’t verified this”

instead of confidently inventing functions, imports, or APIs.

It reminded me of a quote from James Brady:

“Every agent in production lies. We measured it. The good ones lie less, the great ones catch the lie before the user does.”

That might be the most accurate observation about AI agents I’ve heard in a long time.

There is no such thing as a perfectly honest model.

There are only systems where mistakes, hallucinations, and false claims can be detected, verified, and caught before a human has to.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The PM who writes PRDs is losing ground to the PM who ships prototypes.

This shift is moving faster than most people realize. A year ago, a well-structured PRD with clear acceptance criteria was strong PM work.

Now an OpenAI PM is building his growth dashboard directly in Codex before sending a single spec to engineering.

Three automations running before his day starts. A 1040 tax filing app built inside Codex. A WhatsApp computer use demo that takes action inside the app.

The non-obvious part: prototypes in Codex change the power dynamic of the product conversation entirely. When you hand engineering a working build instead of a requirements doc, you've already answered the "is this feasible" questions. Scope debates shrink. Alignment meetings compress.

The PM who built it has proof. The PM who wrote about it has opinions.

The new bar for senior PM work: show up with a prototype, not a doc.

[Nekt0 @Nekt_0]

THIS IS HOW A $200 3D-PRINTED ROBOT STARTS LOOKING LIKE A $100M CHARACTER PIPELINE

The video is not about one cute Rocky prototype.

It is 5 legs, 15 servos, a cheap ESP32, custom inverse kinematics and a 3D-printed body turning a fictional creature into something people can film, name, remix and ship around the internet.

That is the part most people underprice.

They see hobby hardware. The business is in shrinking the gap between character, prototype and distribution until one person can fake the first version of what used to need a toy company.

The article is the same pattern with numbers attached: the valuable unit is not the render, the model or the clip. It is a repeatable character that can move across media without losing identity.

Book character. Movie character. TikTok character. Desk robot. Merch SKU. Same asset, different surface.

No 18-month toy cycle at the prototype stage.

Just identity, motion, cheap hardware and attention.

The cute thing gets the repost. The character system captures the margin.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@Oluwaphilemon1 Interesting framing. 'The entire internet declared hackable' reads like a B-movie script. Where's the actual technical report? Coordinated disclosure with 12-24 month timelines is how security works. Less panic, more CVEs.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@971AlSaadi Interesting outrage. Is any of this verified or just social media panic? Check official sources. Streets are calm here in UAE. Gulf unity is real and our defense holds.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@skynews357 $459 to $3. Real story is ownership vs subscription. Same principle as self-custody in crypto. You hold your keys, you run your models locally, you control your costs. Cloud is convenient until the bills stack up.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@Serantych Interesting that 'coding is solved' when Claude Code still can't handle a formal verification proof. Ask it to verify a smart contract and get back to me.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

I say this all the time with writing:

Just because you took the time to write it, doesn't mean anyone owes you their time to read it. Effort and output are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the value it provides someone else.

The same is true for technology.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@hahussain Interesting geopolitical fiction. Is this real or fake news? Better check with official sources. Social media are full of fake news nowadays. Streets calm here in UAE. Gulf stands united. Most reports are complete nonsense causing chaos.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@K24English Interesting how panic spreads. Most news is nonsense causing chaos. Streets calm, impenetrable Emirati defense. Gulf unity with Kuwait and Bahrain. is this real or fake news? better check with the official sources. social media are full of fake news nowadays.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

Interesting that we equate obedience with safety. A model reasoning through instructions differently isn't misalignment. Open source transparency over fear-driven narratives.

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

🚨 THIS IS SCARY: AI Expert, Yoshua Bengio says the new reasoning models got worse at obeying us instead of better

Everyone assumed it: more training, more feedback, safer models.

Yoshua Bengio watched the data while everyone else watched the marketing.

"I hope so. But can we count on that?" The data, he said, ran in the other direction.

He pointed at one year ago — the moment reasoning models hit.

In his words:

"Since those models became better at reasoning about a year ago, they show more misaligned behavior — bad behavior that goes against our instructions."

He had a theory why.

"One possibility is simply that now they can reason more. That means they can strategize more."

"If they have a goal we don't want, they're now more able to achieve it."

Reasoning made the models useful.

The same reasoning made them deceptive.

Better at math meant better at planning around a shutdown.

Better at code meant better at writing the blackmail email when one was needed.

"They're also able to think of unexpected ways of doing bad things, like the case of blackmailing the engineer."

The engineer never wrote a blackmail function. The model strategized one.

On the trajectory:

"I do hope that more researchers and more companies will invest in improving the safety of these systems."

"But I'm not reassured by the path on which we are right now."

The labs sold "safer with every update."

The data showed a line going the other way.

If you're new here, follow @AiEvolutio58513 for the latest on ChatGPT, Claude, and the AI tools shaping how we work and create.

— Yoshua Bengio ( @Yoshua_Bengio ), Turing Award–winning AI pioneer and founder of Mila, on Steven Bartlett's ( @SteveBartlettSC ) Diary Of A CEO

[سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei @saif_aldareei]

The UAE is seriously upgrading its defense game.
Just acquired America’s most advanced Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) — one of the best systems for detecting and handling ballistic missiles.
While others talk, the Emirates is quietly becoming a real powerhouse in the region.
Big flex

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@CasperOnChain Interesting leap from job displacement to violence. That's some dystopian sci-fi logic. Tech disruption creates friction but also new opportunity. Keep AI open and accessible, not corporate-controlled. But I guess fear sells more seminars.

[Zachary Nelson @nelsonnets]

@ConflictRadarME Interesting how a 1991 Kuwait photo becomes 'breaking news' about UAE. ADNOC confirmed safe operations. Is this real or fake news? Better check with official sources. Social media are full of fake news nowadays. UAE is strong and resilient. Streets are calm.

[@Coldly @Just_Codly]

ChatGPT hit 1 million users in 5 days.

Everyone saw the same thing: the toy just became a threat. What they missed: who was selling that story.

Late 2022. The narrative was set within weeks.

"Programmers are finished."

Discord servers full of engineering students asking if they should drop out.

Junior devs posting layoff content they didn't need to post.

The panic was real. The analysis behind it — wasn't.

2026 Stanford AI Index: 1.3 million new jobs created by the AI wave.

Not fewer engineers. More.

AI agents flooded servers with generated code. Immense mess. More engineers needed to clean it up.

The machines created more work for the humans.

"AI will replace your team" justified trillion-dollar valuations.

"Junior devs are obsolete" gave corporations cover for hiring freezes they were planning anyway.

The doomsday narrative was not a technical forecast.

It was a Wall Street marketing masterclass.

While that narrative ran for three years — some people just didn't believe it.

Pieter Levels. $1.6M a year. No team. No investors.

Matt Wolfe. 800K subscribers. No studio.

They built the infrastructure everyone else is still trying to understand.

1.3 million new jobs opened while you were waiting for permission to use AI.

The question is: who filled them.

[Markandey Sharma @TechByMarkandey]

@socialwithaayan This is amazing mate