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[Gipp 🦅 @gippp69]

THE $599 MAC MINI GETS A $49 DOCK AND TURNS FROM A DESK COMPUTER INTO A TINY 24/7 AI WORKFLOW SERVER

00:19 he clips the dock onto the back of the mac mini, adds extra ports, ethernet, storage and turns one small silver box into a workflow hub that can stay online for 700+ hours a month

a base mac mini can sit online all day, pulling light power while scripts watch folders, move files, process notes and keep boring workflows running in the background

paired with claude, it becomes a small home automation box: 2-hour lectures get transcribed, 30-page articles get summarized, reports get drafted, and research gets cleaned before you even open the laptop

the difference is the loop. trigger, process, verify, save, repeat. the same workflow that costs $40-100/month across cloud tools can run locally from one machine on your desk

that is why this tiny upgrade matters. the dock is cheap, but it gives the mac mini enough expansion to act like a quiet server instead of another computer waiting for you to use it

bookmark this before your desk setup realizes it became infrastructure.

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

This is the new college degree and it’s FREE. Do this now, set your life in the right direction.

[Peter Agboola @baba_Omoloro]

Anthropic has launched free courses to master AI with certificates for $0.00

https://t.co/hwJvuJHIdo

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

VERY good read for any interested in AI and the journey to fluency.

[Omar Pera @ompemi]

https://t.co/ROhuyQPWJi

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

That's not even alot with this kind of capabilty.

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

This guy made 40 Facebook ads, 100 landing pages, booked himself on 4 podcasts, and wrote 3 guest blog posts. In a single day.

People called him a fraud. There was literally a Polymarket bet on whether he's a con artist.

So i asked him to prove it live. And he did.

Here's @codyschneider's actual system for AI-enabled paid marketing:

1) He uses Perplexity to search Reddit for his ICP's actual pain points in their own words. Not what he thinks they care about, what they've literally said online.

2) He feeds those pain points into Claude, which generates 40 ad variations, titles, supporting copy, and the actual creative using React components exported as PNGs via a library called HTML-to-canvas.

3) He tests all 40 variations in a CPC campaign on Meta. $100 over 3 days. Cheapest cost-per-click wins.

4) Winners get matched landing pages. He uses an open-source CMS called Strapi connected to Claude Code via API, so he bulk-generates a landing page for every winning ad angle. Same headline on the ad and the page = higher conversion.

5) Once he finds a winning concept, he scales it — AI avatar UGC via HeyGen, upgraded with V3, and only brings in a human creator if the AI version plateaus.

The whole thing runs on Claude Code + APIs + a .env file with all his keys.

No engineering team. Just him on multiple desktops with multiple Claude agents running simultaneously.

His best line: "you're not just hiring me anymore. you're hiring me and the 30 agents behind me and all the personal software i've built."

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

@floriandarroman Lab

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

@AHomelyHouse Ok, the machine will tell this story. @grok write some movie titles and taglines.

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

Brilliant

[This Week in AI @ThisWeeknAI]

https://t.co/MweyFchqk9

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

EPIC.

[CoFounders Nik @CoFoundersNik]

Today, @steipete became the first confirmed (long theorized) one-person Unicorn!

OpenClaw launched as a weekend side project by less than 3 months ago. Here's the timeline:

Nov 25: First GitHub commit. Starts as a weekend side project

Jan 25: Goes nuclear. 9k stars in one day. 2M website visitors in a single week

Jan 27: Renamed Moltbot (possibly the worst renaming ever) after Anthropic trademark complaint

Jan 29: Renamed @OpenClaw (thank GOODNESS!), blog confirms 100k+ stars milestone

Early Feb: Hits 145k–149k stars + 20k forks

Feb 11: Steinberger notes 180k people starred the repo

Feb 12: Steinberger on Lex Fridman podcast, shares story & vision

Feb 15 (today): Sam Altman announces Steinberger joining OpenAI to build next-gen personal/multi-agent systems

Full cycle: 82 days from zero to this

Absolutely INSANE!

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

@GianTheRios lol 😂 perfect analogy

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

I guess I’m buying a subscription to @OpenAI again. Well played @sama

[Sam Altman @sama]

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.

OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

Good food for thought. Making major moves right now.

[Termsheetinator @termsheetinator]

https://t.co/2e7wVoDaGb

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

@choffstein @BitPaine Fate loves irony

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

Seems like a big deal.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

The longer you wait to jump into AI, the bigger the gap between you and early adopters.

Not because AI gets harder. Because it gets easier.

More seamless. More plug-and-play. More black box.

Right now you can still see how it works under the hood. Context engineering. Open-source models. Building your own workflows in n8n.

Early internet users who configured dial-up and navigated BBS boards didn’t just understand networking better.

They became the founders, CTOs, and architects who built the companies everyone else ended up working for.

The people who understood HTTP, DNS, and FTP in 1995 weren’t just “tech savvy.”

They were the ones who saw ecommerce, SaaS, and cloud infrastructure coming before those words even existed.

The same thing is happening with AI right now.

The people tinkering with prompts, agents, and open-source models today aren’t wasting time on tools that’ll feel primitive in 5 years.

They’re building the intuition that lets them architect what comes next.
The DIY window doesn’t stay open forever.

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

@realTimHack @Nostre_damus I’ve often thought this was also a possibility. Are we an engineered species, quarantined because our makers broke the law of the universe and don’t want us to spread across the galaxy like a plague.

[Balaji @balajis]

Zuck out
Page out
Brin out
Thiel out
Elon out

The most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California.

You shouldn’t move there for tech. And if you are there, you should leave. The future is the decentralized Internet.

[Kallaway @kanekallaway]

In the last 2 weeks, AI completely shifted for me.

I had been using the cutting edge tools as they came out, but most felt super flimsy for real use cases.

Everything just changed for me with Claude 4.6.

I've built actually useful personal software widgets in ~2 hours, I've figured out how to hack the writing so it's actually sounding like me, etc.

This is my first taste of what it will feel like to have 100 "agents" all operating in a symphony.

My first thought is that this is going to take over everything.

My second thought is, how long is the arb window that I can 100x myself while the normie middle stays at 1x?

My guess is 12-18 months?

Btw if you're reading this, you're way ahead of the normie middle lol

This was always the "promise" of these AI tools, but as someone that literally gets paid by the AI companies to play on the edges, this stuff just got insanely useful for me.

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

Another day. Another model I must master.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

🤯🤯🤯

This is AI now

[Rugged Crusader ⚔️ @spartacoast]

@vincenzolandino GET IT IN MY VEINS