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300 Billion in 90 Days: Q1 2026 VC Funding Broke Every Record
Q1 2026 hit 300 billion USD in global VC funding, up 150% year over year
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
471 entries · latest 2026-10-23
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Anthropic's Advisor Strategy: Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices
Anthropic's Advisor Strategy lets Sonnet or Haiku consult Opus mid-task, keeping near-Opus quality at executor-level pricing
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Claude Managed Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents at Scale
Managed Agents is Anthropic's new hosted agent infrastructure, now in public beta
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MCP Hit 97 Million Downloads. The Protocol War Is Over Before It Started.
MCP crossed 97 million monthly downloads. Anthropic donated it to the Linux Foundation. Every major AI platform adopted…
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Anthropic Just Gave 12 Companies Their Most Dangerous AI Model. On Purpose.
Project Glasswing uses Claude Mythos Preview to find zero-days in critical infrastructure. 12 partners, 100M USD in credits,…
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MemPalace Scored 96.6% on LongMemEval. Here Is What That Actually Means.
MemPalace scored 96.6% on LongMemEval with raw local storage. No cloud, no subscription. How the palace architecture works…
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5 Automation Workflows I Run with Claude Code Every Day
Five workflows I run daily with Claude Code that save 10+ hours per week
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How to Track AI Spending as a Solo Developer
AI tool subscriptions add up fast, I tracked mine and found 353 EUR/month across 21 tools
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Anthropic Hit 30 Billion: What It Means for Developers
Anthropic hit 30 billion run-rate revenue and signed a multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google
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How I Built a Viral Web Game That Got 156K Views
Center This Div hit 156K views in 48 hours from one Reddit post. The full breakdown: tech stack,…
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The Best AI Coding Tools for Solo Developers in 2026
I shipped 6 products this year with AI coding tools. Here is what works, what costs what, and…
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How to Make Your Website Visible to AI Search
Most websites are invisible to AI search engines. Here is how to fix that with llms.txt, Schema.org markup,…