Rick S.

CTO, Advisor, Founder, SaaS, #ecupirate @dripjobs | @routemize | @insightguide1

[Rick S. @rickschott]

Everyone telling you you are using AI wrong has a dog in the flight. Use it however is best for you and your organization. You can perfect anything but at what cost!? If your workflow is working, let it be for a bit, there is always some new shinny thing.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

A short history of how we got here, because the chronology is the whole story.

January: the Pentagon demands unrestricted use of Claude for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. Anthropic says no.

February: the President orders every federal agency to drop Anthropic. The Defense Secretary bans Pentagon contractors from doing business with them. A rival announces its classified-network deal within hours.

March: the Pentagon designates an American company a "supply chain risk" under a statute written for foreign adversaries. A federal judge blocks it.

May: the Pentagon signs AI deals with seven companies. Anthropic is not one of them.

June 9: Anthropic releases Fable 5.

June 12: Commerce issues an export control directive over a jailbreak that, by the government's own account, was demonstrated verbally, came with no written explanation, and involves a capability you can get from other publicly available models today.

Two things are true at once.

First: Anthropic spent months marketing Mythos as too dangerous to release. Sam Altman said it was "incredible marketing to say we have built a bomb." The Commerce Department has now formally agreed it is a bomb. If you describe your product as a munition in every press release, eventually a government takes you at your word. They wrote the legal predicate themselves and called it a brand.

Second: we have run this experiment before. In the 90s the government classified encryption as a munition under ITAR. Activists defeated it by printing PGP's source code as a book, because books are protected speech and floppy disks were arms exports. A t-shirt with three lines of RSA Perl was legally a munition. The controls collapsed because math does not stop at customs.

The new wrinkle is the "deemed export" rule: showing controlled technology to a foreign national inside the US counts as exporting it abroad. Which is why Anthropic's own foreign-national employees are now locked out of the model they built. The munition is in the building and the people who made it are not allowed to look at it.

The jailbreak is the paperwork. The refusal was in January.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Dear US government,

Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people:

- Microsoft Teams
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Jira
- Outlook

Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

[Rick S. @rickschott]

Burning tokens for loops is crazy IMO. I do that outside of clause for free.

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

Anthropic just literally spoon-fed you how to use Fable properly.

99% of Claude users missed it.

The way you need to prompt Fable is fundamentally different from all other AI models.

I translated their entire new Fable prompting handbook:

[Rick S. @rickschott]

Wemby moved into a new category last night.

[Rick S. @rickschott]

I think it's time for bed, let's pick this back up tomorrow.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Happy Friday! We've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits.

[Blue Chip Basketball Academy @TriadBlueChip]

🚨 Our varsity Men’s Triad FIRST48 “County Clash” has been moved from the end of the 25/26 school year to the beginning of the 26/27 year.

🗓️ Saturday, August 15th, 2026

📍TBD

Let’s see who the best players in the TRIAD are entering the 26/27 Season!

[Rick S. @rickschott]

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[Rick S. @rickschott]

Claude as been terrible this week, don't know what they did but it's guessing a lot, drifting and not listening.

[Dinos Trigonis @trigonis30]

UAA has outsourced it's grassroots to 3 Step & it's obvious the focus has been on paying teams NOT on it's top teams. Mike Barnett whose company is/was owned by 3Step is no longer involved with Adidas 3SSB. Nike EYBL is directly controlled by persons who are Nike employees

[Steve Kyler @stevekylerNBA]

Dinos -- I don't think most people realize that most of these "circuits" are run by third party companies that get funding from shoe companies as marketing spend -- They decide who gets dollars. Not the brands themselves. 3STEP Sports controls a ton of it all by themselves.

[Rick S. @rickschott]

AI tools are so easy anyone can…well sort of. They are learning new skills. They probably now know about CLIs, Terminals, GitHub, IDEs, APIs, MCPs and plugins… It’s not that now anyone can do it, they always could have, they are just learning new skills faster.

[Tanner Mullen | Biz Ops @tannerdripjobs]

Everyone keeps asking me what @routemize does! Simply put, it solves this problem:

Field services cannot book instant appointments this way. I have known and tried to solve this problem for 7 years now, because I personally have dealt with this.

In @dripjobs the way we overcame this was to create a "request" based form, which allowed the user to review every request manually before allowing a booking to go through. This would rely on their ability to know the terrain in order to identify the best place to put the appointment, along with many other factors.

It worked, but it wasn't efficient, and still isn't.

My co-founder @rickschott and I decided to spin off and create another app - @routemize, because of how many layers are required to actually pull off instant bookings with route-optimization configured at the point of booking.

It had to be perfect. The theory was:

Someone needs to be able to go to a booking form, and select a time, without any lapse - instantly, and that time, be perfectly optimized - as if a human were looking at it and making a decision.

And we DID it.

It's currently being used in my painting business, and a few others.

The results are insane.

It works, and of course, it plugs right into @dripjobs, seamlessly.

This will be BIG.

If you want in on the beta, opening up here in a few weeks, sign up at https://t.co/cqTrujj1Iq

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Anthropic just mass-obsoleted every agent orchestration startup in a single launch.

The screenshot tells the full story. That's a production fleet dashboard. 8 agents running. 247 completed tasks. Active status. MCP-connected to HubSpot, pulling deals, generating proposals, reading attachments. This isn't a demo. It's a managed production environment where you define the agent and Anthropic runs the infrastructure.

The timing here is surgical. Four days ago, Anthropic blocked OpenClaw and every third-party harness from using subscription credentials. The message was clear: stop building on top of our consumer auth layer. Now here's the replacement. A first-party managed agent platform with fleet monitoring, production-grade MCP integrations, and prototype-to-launch timelines measured in days.

Manus spent six months on five harness rewrites. LangChain spent a year on four architectures. Anthropic just shipped the managed version that eliminates the need to build one at all.

The real bet: most companies don't want to build agent infrastructure. They want agents that work. Anthropic is pricing this into the platform the same way AWS priced server management into EC2. The 46% of enterprises citing "integration with existing systems" as their primary agent challenge just got a first-party answer from the model provider itself.

Every agent startup that raised on "we make Claude reliable in production" just lost their pitch deck.

[Blue Chip Basketball Academy @TriadBlueChip]

🗣️ WHO IS THE BEST HIGH SCHOOL PLAYER/S FROM;

🟠 DAVIE
🟢 DAVIDSON
🔴 FORSYTH
🟤 GUILFORD
🔵 YADKIN/ASHE/WILKES
🟣 ROCKINGHAM/ALAMANCE/CASWELL/RANDOLPH
🟡 STOKES/SURRY

***CLASS OF 27, 28 OR 29

🚨 Time to indentify and give exposure to the best players in the TRIAD!

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[Tanner Mullen | Biz Ops @tannerdripjobs]

Are you kidding me?! 🤯 Last night at 9:40pm my house painting business got a phone call.

Our @routemize AI Voice agent handled the entire call, end to end and scheduled a perfect appointment 7.1 miles away from an existing appointment scheduled that same day.

Here’s what would’ve normally happened:

1. Call goes to voicemail
2. Admin calls in morning
3. Admin fumbles trying to find a spot for the customer. Doesn’t have time to see which spot is closest while on the phone
4. Picks a slot that “feels right”
5. *IF the customer even answers in the morning

Routemize will be the favorite app of anyone who runs a home service business. API friendly and can plug into any software stack. Preferably @dripjobs 😉

[Tanner Mullen | Biz Ops @tannerdripjobs]

9:28PM - lead comes in. @dripjobs follows up with them, @routemize books them. Can you name a better duo?!

[Charlotte Hornets PR @HornetsPR]

With his fourth made 3-pointer tonight, Kon Knueppel set a new franchise record for 3PM in a season (261).

Knueppel breaks the record set by Kemba Walker in 2018-19.

[Tanner Mullen | Biz Ops @tannerdripjobs]

First real @routemize demo today. Here are the results:

[Tanner Mullen | Biz Ops @tannerdripjobs]

8 appointments booked with Routemize today for my painting business. We've achieved AGI.

Jk, it's pretty amazing though to have appointments automatically scheduled, in a route-optimized fashion, when before my admin would simply "guess" what spot would be best, and there was a TON of scheduling friction. @routemize