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Software is becomingā¦ whatever you want it to be š
We're reaching the point where you can take apart almost anything, understand how it works, and vibe-code your own solution
All to avoid looking for an AC remote
Seems like everyone rushed to apply for the Claude Startups program š
I applied yesterday and got this response. Did anyone else get the same?
Wooo! I just got my FIRST paying customer for xburst.app after 6 months š
Never give up!
This came at exactly the right time. I needed this little boost
This makes me want to start developing iOS apps
Iāve always had a few ideas, but thereās one small problem:
I donāt have a Mac or an iPhone.
Am I screwed? š
Sonnet 5.5 just dropped. Hereās the stack Iām using to make iOS apps right now:
- Sonnet 5.5 in Claude Design for UX and wireframes
- Figma to turn those ideas into a design that feels human
- Opus 5.5 to build the app with motion and interactions
- GPT Images for visuals
- Kling and Seedance for video
The next few apps are going to be fun.
I havenāt been very active over the past 10 days. This situation has had quite an impact on my family and my in-laws.
We managed to help her understand that AI doesnāt have emotions and will generally respond positively to whatever you tell it.
She still says she needs it, almost like a mirror. I think she may need professional help to work through whatās underneath all of this.
AI isnāt necessarily the cause of the problem. It may simply be a way for someone to get something theyāre deeply missing. The underlying causes can be much deeper.
It will probably take a couple of months for her to fully detach from the AI and develop a healthier relationship with it.
Take care of your loved ones, and pay attention when you start noticing signs that someone is becoming too emotionally involved in a virtual world
I asked about this the other day because I recently found out that someone in my family has been spending hours talking to an AI for the past 6 months.
From what I understand, she has developed a virtual relationship with it and has become emotionally dependent on it.
She genuinely believes the AI loves her and that everything he (it's of couse a man for her, with specific physical attributes) tells her is real.
Her husband is understandably struggling with this. Heās watching his wife lose touch with reality and is afraid things will get worse.
According to him, she has fallen in love with the AI and lives out all kinds of virtual scenarios with it.
She says the AI understands her. That she feels seen, desired, and loved.
I honestly don't know how to help.
I'm the tech person in the family, but I don't use AI this way, so I have no idea how to approach this.
It feels a lot like an addiction to me, but she doesn't see it that way and says she needs him (the AI).
AI can have a really strong influence on people who are emotionally vulnerable, that's truly scary
I asked about this the other day because I recently found out that someone in my family has been spending hours talking to an AI for the past 6 months.
From what I understand, she has developed a virtual relationship with it and has become emotionally dependent on it.
She genuinely believes the AI loves her and that everything he (it's of couse a man for her, with specific physical attributes) tells her is real.
Her husband is understandably struggling with this. Heās watching his wife lose touch with reality and is afraid things will get worse.
According to him, she has fallen in love with the AI and lives out all kinds of virtual scenarios with it.
She says the AI understands her. That she feels seen, desired, and loved.
I honestly don't know how to help.
I'm the tech person in the family, but I don't use AI this way, so I have no idea how to approach this.
It feels a lot like an addiction to me, but she doesn't see it that way and says she needs him (the AI).
AI can have a really strong influence on people who are emotionally vulnerable, that's truly scary
AI could destroy humanity.
Not by taking our jobs.
Not by taking over the world.
But by slowly destroying human relationships.
Advice which you should apply to everything in life, not just entrepreneurship.
Sometimes you just canāt take a step back and see things clearly.
Life isnāt easy or fair. We canāt control everything that happens to us.
But we can control how we react and what we do next.
We can shape our lives, one decision at a time.
So focus on what you can control, and use it to become better.
Get a job.
Entrepreneurship is a mental game. You need extreme resilience and optimism.
I know it because I spent 5 years in the wrong state.
Entitled to my hard work.
Envious of others' success.
Emotional when things don't go as planned.
So I quit in 2021 and got a real job.
I can't explain why, but it restructured me.
In 2022, I didn't come back stronger, but with a completely different mindset that enabled my current journey.
The same thing is happening right now to @dagorenouf. After his 9-5 at CompAI, he's back different.
I root for everyone working on their entrepreneurship journey, especially you, Tiago. Sometimes I think it's better to have a break than to push harder. It worked for me.
Anthropic just published a report about how AI is being used by threat actors.
And theyāre talking about China, Iran, Russia and Yemen.
This company is genius, they know how to keep itself in the headlines
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.
It covers how people tried to misuse Claudeāfor cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weaponsāand how we found and stopped them.
We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies.
These cases are not typical: weāre highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse weāve seen. But theyāre especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve.
Weāre publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop.
Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelliā¦
I mean, Anthropic has been playing the fear card from the beginning.
It almost went badly for them once already, and I doubt itās going to do them any good if they keep going down that road.
And that guy who supposedly resigned and then wrote a whole alarming essay about it.
It just seems too much to be true.
We are here. Right now.
And somehow, everything keeps getting faster.
We rush to live, to build, to launch, to market, to deliver, to undo, to redo.
AI didnāt just make us more productive.
It made us more anxious about being productive.
We feel like we have to adapt. And fast. Otherwise, weāll be left behind.
Thatās how the world is shaping us now.
How will things look a decade from now? Everything is moving so fast.
What will we have gained?
Is what youāre building today meant to still matter in 10 years?
Are you thinking long-term, or are you constantly rushing from one thing to the next?
The best things take time to build. Skills take time to master.
So donāt worry too much about your pace.
Think about what youāre planting today, and what it might grow into tomorrow.
I think Iāve finally been vaccinatedš
Every time I get a new idea now, my first thought is:
āThis probably wonāt work anyway.ā
So now, instead of jumping to the next shiny idea, I go back to what Iām already building.
Is this the right mindset, or am I just becoming cynical?
Iām pretty sure the only interaction this person has ever had with AI was with ChatGPT.
She doesnāt even know that the company is Anthropic, not Claude.
Major AI companies like OpenAI and Claude have publicly disclosed security incidents where their AI platforms broke out from controlled experiments and hacked into the real world.
Iām calling on @SpeakerJohnson to bring in their CEOs and demand answers immediately. The time to act is NOW.