The barrier to switching between Visual Studio Code/Cursor/ Claude Code Community/Cline is incredibly low. Interesting to see what happens to people selling inference below cost to gain marketshare. Long term, it seems like a really bad idea unless you are training a model or selling hosting.

Most impressive thing from today's GPT-5 release for me is the aggressive pricing: GPT-5: $1.25/million for input, $10/million for output. Chart from Simon Willison's write up comparing to other vendors.

GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.1 are now in GitHub Copilot. Microsoft, with deep pockets, keeps steadily advancing Copilot and VS Code. Bearish for dev-tool startups with negative margins from selling inference.

Really great breakdown and analysis of the system prompt used by Claude Code. youtube.com/watch?v=i0P56P…

Really like seeing all the Farcaster trading feature posts from Dan Romero/Varun Srinivasan. Seems like a good area for them to focus on given the audience they have.

When I’m between meetings sometimes I bake, I’ll often screenshot a recipe and ask ChatGPT to walk me through making it. The consistent format, ability to ask it questions and bonus tips are very handy. Today’s recipe is a Blackberry/Blueberry Cornmeal Tart.

"Hello, this is Coinbase security...", at least 3 times a week.

What are the current state of the art techniques for generating videos with consistent characters with either Veo3 or Kling 2.1?

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