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Mikejnr retweeted
WORK ETHIC ELIMINATES FEAR
“I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.” (Michael Jordan)
So I was sceptical about @Muse but saw the podcast of @alexandr_wang with @davidsenra and decided let me give it a try. Created a new email and gave it a task, reduce my insurance bill which I feel I’m overpaying.
Other sites rejected muse but here I am bill reduced from $260 to $170.
Progressive was the only insurance Company that allows Muse to work and now they have a new client.
Now I’m sold on Muse. Easy process.
My muse I called it Julien..cause I love King Julien 😂😂😂
Here I was thinking the last part meant it will refund me but nope I just ordered a pizza that I thought was going to be free on my card. After the app collected most of my information. This is just dirty if you ask me.
We're giving away $1,000,000 of free pizza right now
Download and order from the Hark app: hark.com/download
Type "order a free pizza" in chat. It's first-come, first-served, delivered only in the U.S. (review details below)
Mikejnr retweeted
Gaming is the single biggest opportunity in AI right now
2027 will be an absolute gold rush for anyone who dedicates the time to build a game with AI
Gaming is BY FAR the biggest entertainment industry on Earth
Double the size of the ENTIRE movie, music, and U.S. sports industry combined (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)
Over the past year the economics of gaming has completely collapsed. Despite the industry making over $200 billion a year, it has become completely unaffordable to make good games anymore
The work needed to make a detailed game that keeps up with today's tech is beyond comprehension
This is where AI comes in. AI fixes those economics
AI allows solo devs to build the AAA games of their dreams with very little resources.
The thing is the gaming industry up to this point has completely rejected AI. This won't last much longer though. Disruption is coming and quite literally nothing is going to stop it
The first domino fell today. Asha the CEO of Xbox announced Xbox Labs today. This appears to be one of the first times a major gaming brand is embracing the disruption (for the record Asha has done an INCREDIBLE job being the shepherd of the Xbox brand)
It is so painfully obvious where all of this is going. In the next 12 months every digital game store will be filled with AAA quality, incredibly fun games built entirely with AI by a single developer
The $200 billion flowing through the gaming industry will be redirected from massive studios with thousands of devs to solo developers/small teams embracing the latest tech
The largest entertainment industry in the world will be 100% owned by indie AI developers. Hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs
And unlike other sectors of software, gaming has built in moats.
One of the last moats in software will be network effects
If I build a community based piece of software that has a million users and you build the exact same piece of software and it has 0 users, everyone will buy my software instead
Gaming encapsulates this perfectly. If you build a banger multiplayer game that has millions of players, even if someone copies you and builds the exact same game, you're going to win because of network effects
This is one of those moments. One of those moments where the future is so obvious and so clear.
AI is about to disrupt a multi hundred billion dollar industry and every penny of that will be up for grabs.
There is absolutely no reason why you can't be one of the people who capitalizes on this
Download Claude Code. Download Codex. Whatever your choice is, just get it. Then start building the game of your dreams
GTA 6 will be a landmark game for many reasons. One of those reasons is it will be the one of the last AAA games from a massive developer studio. That model doesn't work anymore.
The new model is you. A person with an idea and access to the most powerful technology ever created.
Don't screw this opportunity up.
Today we're standing up XBOX LABS (labs.xbox.com). Here is the note that I sent to the team:
Team,
The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we've helped shape the industry in return, from bringing hard drives to consoles and online gaming through Xbox Live to Game Pass and cloud gaming, alongside franchises that have brought millions of people together.
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we've seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.
These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games. While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.
To explore these possibilities, I’ve asked Scott to stand-up XBOX LABS, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience. We'll build in the open, learn from what people do, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating.
I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We've spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have.
Our priorities aren't changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs, to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it. LABS gives us a way to explore new technology that is game design led without abandoning the work already underway.
Asha
Mikejnr retweeted
This guy shows you in 22 minutes how to learn to create videos automatically with Claude Code
Mikejnr retweeted
Dreamina Originals Officially Launches
Dreamina AI has officially launched Dreamina Originals, the first professional film and series content label dedicated to empowering creators and supporting creative production. We will provide computing power, technology, AI creative tools, and top-tier distribution resources—accompanying creators across the entire content value chain, from production to distribution, as we explore film and series creation in the AI era.
We look forward to working with everyone to define great content and great IP for the AI era together.
#dreaminaoriginals #dreaminaai #AIGC
Mikejnr retweeted
🚨NEW EXPERIMENT 🚨
Playground is an experimental gaming platform that lets you create your own games with zero coding experience. If you can think it, you can play it.
Go to labs.google/playground to learn more! Available to users 18+ in the US.
Mikejnr retweeted
A short manual on how to systematically increase your exposure to opportunity.
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Mikejnr retweeted
We've earned $46,900 in revenue in 4 days 👑
🟢 145,443 players online
👀 8,614,591 visits today
👥 1,807,618 total players
🌍 16,584,859 visits all time
#LagosLife
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Mikejnr retweeted
The seventh edition of our Top 100 Consumer AI Apps is here.
New this time: a revenue leaderboard, alongside the usual web and mobile traffic rankings.
Three years ago we published the first edition. ChatGPT was #1, Claude was unranked, and the entire category was chatbots, image generators, and not much else.
In today's edition:
- ChatGPT still holds the throne, now with 1B+ monthly actives on mobile
- Claude has climbed to #3 on web with nearly 1B monthly visits
- The category has expanded to vibe coding (Lovable, Cursor, Replit), music (Suno), design (Figma), voice (ElevenLabs), video (Higgsfield, Kling), agents (Manus), and even hardware (Plaud)
Full breakdown from @omooretweets: a16z.news/p/top-100-consumer…
Mikejnr retweeted
We aggregated five years of Google Flights data to find the best booking windows for holiday travel this year. Here’s what to know:
✈️ For Thanksgiving travel, flights tend to be cheapest in October.
✈️ For Christmas travel, the sweet spot for booking is 56 days out (October 30th).
✈️ Connecting flights can also be a big money saver. Nonstop tickets are 20% more expensive on average.
✈️ When you travel is key for saving: Departing on a Monday and returning on a Tuesday or Wednesday saves about 14% over weekend flights (and up to 20% domestically versus Sunday).
✈️ Wednesday beat Tuesday as the absolute cheapest day to book a flight, but the difference is negligible — buying a ticket on a Wednesday only saves you about 1.4% compared to Sunday, the most expensive day.
Mikejnr retweeted
This is great and another example of city states attracting all the skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions!
Up to $5.5M to move your startup to Qatar.
Just an MVP gets you in the door.
The Startup Qatar Investment Program (backed by QDB) funds tech startups to launch or expand in Qatar.
Two tracks:
START: up to $1.1M if you have a proof of concept or MVP
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What else you get:
- Entrepreneur visa + flexible work visa
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Sectors they want:
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Apply link below 👇
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Bookmark this + tag a founder looking for a new market.
Mikejnr retweeted
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.
