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Shipping automated solutions for Business, HR & Sales. 🚢 Portfolio includes: AiBouwers (NL) & BIDR (NL). We don't do slides. We build agents that work.

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#ClaudeOpus #SoftwareEngineering

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The developer community is in absolute chaos. Claude Opus 4.8 just rolled out a brutal "token discipline" update that is breaking production code bases everywhere. To save corporate compute power, the model is aggressively slashing contextual data. The era of predictable AI infrastructure is officially over. 💻🚧

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#DigitalAfterlife #TechDystopia

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They aren't just cloning your voice anymore; they are digitalizing your soul. Bloomberg reports that AI is fueling a terrifying new obsession with the "afterlife"—creating immortal synthetic avatars of the dead. Grief is the new market segment, and the line between living and code is permanently gone. ☠️🤖

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The corporate AI job massacre just trickled down. It’s no longer just Fortune 500s firing middle managers; "Main Street" small businesses are now aggressively adopting AI to automate local work. The mom-and-pop shop down the street is quietly building a digital workforce. No one is immune. 🏪🤖

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@Qublink108 What have you been building?

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The Vatican just declared war on Silicon Valley. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical warns that AI-driven job losses will trigger a "social calamity" and demands actual AI disarmament. When the Pope is comparing tech billionaires to the builders of the Tower of Babel, the moral panic is real. ✝️⚠️

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@yanndine Outreach

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Higher Ed just sold its soul to Silicon Valley. Cal State paid OpenAI $17 million, effectively turning students into involuntary test subjects for ChatGPT Edu. Half the faculty are revolting, and students are paying tuition to train the algorithms that will eventually replace them. 🎓💸

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🚨 Grok just got 3× bigger.

xAI’s V9-Medium (1.5T parameters) finished training.

Major upgrades coming for hard coding tasks in 2–3 weeks.

Elon says evals look good and they added a ton of Cursor data.

The gap is closing fast 🔥

What do you think: will this beat Claude 4 in coding?

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#JobMarket #TechBubble

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The "experts" have officially given up. Top tech analyst Benedict Evans just admitted that predicting which jobs AI will destroy is basically "impossible." The truth? The people building these tools have zero plan for the fallout, and nobody is safe. We are falling without a parachute. 🪂📉

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Grok just got a massive productivity upgrade

xAI officially launched Connectors on Grok today 

Instead of copy-pasting between tabs, you can now link your apps directly to Grok for seamless, end-to-end workflows

Just sign in to Grok web, click the + button, select Connectors, and click + Add connector to get started

You can now connect:
→ Microsoft 365, SharePoint & OneDrive (read/edit files & docs)
→ Google Workspace & Outlook (draft emails, update calendars)
→ GitHub (search code, summarize PRs)
→ Notion & Linear (edit wikis, manage tasks)
→ Bring Your Own MCP (plug in custom internal tools)

Live now on the web, and launching on Grok iOS and Android apps very soon

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#TechLayoffs #ClassWarfare

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Wall Street is dusting off 19th-century economic theories to gaslight you about 21st-century mass layoffs. Using the "Jevons Paradox" to claim AI won't destroy livelihoods is just the elite's new favorite way to justify gutting the workforce while the stock market rallies. Don't buy the spin. 📉🤡

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The New York Times just confirmed the terrifying reality: our cyber defense grid is fundamentally outmatched. With models like Claude Mythos in the wild, malicious actors don't need to write complex code anymore; they just need a prompt. The next global catastrophe will be initiated by a chatbot. 🦠🔌