Hustling to exit the matrix. Build your future instead of stumbling into it. Sr. Technology Strategist, Business Architect and Evangelist for Great Ideas.
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I am afraid this man is absolutely right and there is a huge problem coming our way.
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Tesla Robotaxi rumored at $30K.
I’m not buying a car.
I’m hiring a 24/7 employee that never calls in sick, never asks for a raise, and parks itself.
Buy one. Watch the deposits. Buy another.
The future just clocked in. So did I.
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Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history.
Here is exactly what happened.
Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice.
But the storage was not the part that broke the internet.
The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected.
They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting.
They never told you.
David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model.
Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result.
J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time.
Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built.
This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance.
They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened.
The developer community did not forget that.
WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod
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FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.
Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/a…
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🚨 THE AI COST CRISIS HAS STARTED.
Microsoft reportedly told engineers to stop using Claude because AI bills were exploding, while Uber says its entire yearly AI budget was already destroyed by April.
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Selling Intelligence: The Real Agenda Behind the AI Boom
The aggressive push for Generative AI is a calculated move to turn "intelligence" into a product, something people must constantly pay for and depend on. When Sam Altman openly talks about selling intelligence like electricity, it tells you everything you need to know.
Across Africa, this idea is being sold hard to governments, students, creatives, and workers as "the future," even in places still struggling with basic infrastructure.
At the same time, there’s a clear double standard. Tech elites like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg limit their own children's exposure to the very technologies being pushed on everyone else. The Spearhead's Kangmwa Gofwen explains that this contradiction should raise serious questions.
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Mark Cubans advice on selling AI agents to SMBs is the MOST underrated clip on the internet right now.
here’s the full play he didn’t break down (bookmark this):
pick one vertical. learn the flows. become the AI team they never hired and wish they had.
you really don’t need a CS degree or VC money. you need claude, a cold email sequence, and the willingness to learn one industry better than anyone.
bonus, find an industry leader who knows nothing about AI but knows everything about their business. partner with them. bring AI into their operations.
you increase EBITDA. you increase multiples. you own a piece of the upside. this is the business model of the decade.
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Most AI startups will go bankrupt within 18-24 months.
After reviewing hundreds of AI startups' financials at Hustle Fund, I'm seeing a sustainability crisis that nobody's talking about.
The numbers are brutal. 🧵
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We romanticized struggle so much, peace now looks like laziness.
Somewhere along the line, we were taught that pain equals progress. If you’re not tired, you’re not trying hard enough.
You don’t need to suffer to succeed. Real success is built on peace, purpose, and consistency
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Been building in the AI automation space for 1 year. Yes I'm new, but that's exactly why you should listen, the mistakes are fresh and the lessons still sting.
Made every mistake possible. Lost money, burned clients, built trash that broke. Here's what I wish someone told me when I started.
The biggest lie is that technical skills matter most. They don't. I watched developers with 10 years experience fail while a hairdresser built a $30K/month agency. The difference? She understood business problems. They understood code. I fell for this trap hard - spent months deep in n8n tutorials thinking technical knowledge would equal sales. It doesn't.
Your first 10 automations will be garbage. Accept it. Mine were 200-node monsters that broke if someone typed their name wrong. Now? Most problems need 15 nodes max. Complexity is usually incompetence disguised as sophistication.
Pricing is where everyone fucks up. Stop charging hourly. Stop charging per project. The only sustainable model is value-based with recurring. If your automation saves them $10K/month, charge $2K/month. They're still up $8K. You get predictable revenue. Or hit them with a fat upfront fee then add monthly for usage and "maintenance" - whatever keeps cash flowing.
Client acquisition is stupidly simple once you understand one thing: businesses don't buy automation. They buy outcomes. "I'll automate your invoicing" loses to "I'll get you paid 15 days faster" every time.
The tools don't matter as much as you think. I've seen people make fortunes with Zapier, n8n, Make, or just Google Sheets and Apps Script. Pick one, understand it deeply, stop tool-hopping. The best automation is the one that actually gets built.
Your first client should be yourself. Automate your own business first. It's free practice, you understand the problem deeply, and you can show real results. My customer support bot and stock tracking system for my ecom brand became my first proper build and first $6K invoice because I had real data proving it worked.
Error handling will make or break you. Every automation needs to assume users are drunk, data is wrong, and APIs will fail. Build for chaos. Your 3am self will thank you when nothing breaks.
Niches print money but not how gurus tell you. Don't pick "dentists" or "lawyers". Pick "dental practices losing patients to no-shows" or "immigration lawyers drowning in paperwork". Specific problems, not broad industries.
Maintenance isn't optional. Budget 20% of your time for keeping things running. Charge for it. Position it as insurance, not a burden. "For $500/month, you never think about this again" sells itself.
The best automations are boring. Invoice processing, lead routing, appointment booking. The stuff nobody wants to do manually. Stop trying to build AI-powered revolutionary solutions. Build things that save 2 hours a day.
Competition is irrelevant if you understand this: every business has unique stupidity. What works for one company is useless for another. There are 30 million small businesses. You need 10 clients. Do the math.
Learning resources are mostly worthless. YouTube tutorials teach you to build demos, not production systems. The only way to learn is to build real things for real businesses with real consequences.
Your imposter syndrome is justified. You don't know enough. Neither does anyone else. The difference between you and successful builders is they started anyway. Perfect knowledge doesn't exist. Good enough does.
Most valuable skill isn't technical. It's translating between business and tech. CEOs don't care about webhooks. They care about results. Learn to speak money, not modules.
The market is so big it's stupid. Every pizza shop, dentist, accountant, and lawn care company runs on manual processes. While you're reading this, someone just charged $8K to automate appointment reminders. Could've been you.
Final reality: this is the easiest time in history to build a profitable automation business. Tools are accessible, businesses are desperate, and most consultants are overpriced dinosaurs. You don't need permission, funding, or a computer science degree. You need to start.
Stop consuming, start building. Your first automation will suck. Your tenth will be decent. Your fiftieth will print money. But only if there's a first.
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Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf.
The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team.
We are also honoring their talent and hard work in building Windsurf into the great business it is today. This transaction is structured so that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially. They will also have all vesting cliffs waived and will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date.
At Cognition we have focused on developing robust and secure autonomous agents, while Windsurf has pioneered the agentic IDE. Devin + Windsurf are a powerful combination for the developers we serve. Working side by side, we’ll soon enable you to plan tasks in an IDE powered by Devin’s codebase understanding, delegate chunks of work to multiple Devins in parallel, complete the highest-leverage parts yourself with the help of autocomplete, and stitch it all back together in the same IDE.
Cognition and Windsurf are united behind a shared vision for the future of software engineering, and there’s never been a better time to build. Welcome to our new colleagues from Windsurf!
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💡 "Same water, different price tag. It ain't about the water—it’s about where it’s at." 💯
50 Cent drops wisdom on knowing your worth and making sure you're in the right environment. If a bottle of water can go from $1 to $7 just by changing locations, imagine what happens when you place yourself where you're truly valued. Stop settling. Level up. 🚀
