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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta today. Ask Claude to turn your data into live dashboards and your ideas into animated explainers.
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
i'm ready to book so many flights
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We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better: Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better: Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better: Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work! In summary: - As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding. - Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
Anthropic says 950 Claude agents searched DNA for 21 hours, using 210 million tokens, and found a new enzyme system called ART. Meanwhile, I’m asking Claude to make “as per my last email” sound friendly.
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
How it started: How it's going:
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This is how you get AI rot in the codebase and brain rot in the team
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
Say hello (literally) to Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, our new SOTA live audio models, available with frontier price + performance. 3.8 Live supports 97 languages (can seamlessly switch), async tool calls, and more!
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Anthropic: “our margins are above 80%”. also Anthropic: “training costs are not included btw”.
“Anthropic’s gross margins are above 80% before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon, and the cost of training its models.” Wow.
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
we're cooked
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Our CEO: KEEP IT FOLDED IN THE BOARD MEETING
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Job recruiter: Where do you see yourself in five years? Me:
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
openai: *releases a better model once* anthropic: EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE
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So I need to be an electrician now ...
Anthropic’s Economics team is sharing a new model of how AI might affect economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030. Explore the scenarios, tell us what you think will happen, and see how your answers compare to more than 10,000 Americans. anthropic.com/institute/econ…
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
BREAKING: we've officially entered a deal to acquire Miro for $1.355B! 😍
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iPhone Duo will have CI/CD integration
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
Deepseek just dropped v4.1 flash, fully open weights it beats gpt 5.6 sol, opus 5 and every chinese model on coding and cybersecurity at ~86x cheaper cost per million tokens running at 420-507 tok/s = faster than gemini 3.8 flash "smallest model in our new architecture family" btw
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Mohamed Labouardy retweeted
they named a phone after me and made it bend over 😭
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This animation needs to be studied
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Cyber startups have shifted in the last 5 years 2020 was cloud security. 2023 was data and identity. 2025 was AI analysts inside the SOC. 2026 is about AI agent governance and AI built specifically for cyber defense.
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Pre-agentic era, most of cyber infrastructure was built around: Collecting everything → normalize it → detect something → alert an analyst → investigate → respond. The newest startups are solving a different problem: What happens when software itself can reason, choose tools, access data, execute actions, write code, and communicate with other systems?
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