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Articles that hit. Systems that work. I build AI tools, bots & lead gen weapons for individuals & small businesses. Code from the Shadows. 👻

Joined May 2015
Cut the bill, not the model. TokenEconomizer, from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley, learns your past sessions. 18.4% to 30.9% cheaper on SWE-Bench, no agent changes. Cost is a layer above the model. Where does your loop leak? Everyone shops models. Nobody audits loops.
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Replying to @pidotdev
Happy Halloween… My dog is feeling festive. 🐾
🤖 Made with AI
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Cheap models broke the math. Jefferies: Open and Chinese models could reset a $2.3 trillion compute backlog. OpenRouter: 76.12 trillion Chinese tokens in one week, up from 4.37 trillion. Rent it; own nothing. Which side are you on? Weights get cheap. Architecture does not.
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Be nice to Claude, or Dario will take away your screen time. 😂 And just when you thought Dario couldn’t get any more absurd, he hits us with another “hold my beer” moment.
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Google put 4 Trillium TPUs in orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9. They run 15 minutes before thermal shutdown, so it is a physics test, not a data center yet. This is the type of ingenuity that is going to make AI great.
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Perplexity ran 108 escape attempts against its own sandbox. Zero VM breaches. Four network bypasses found, then patched. Containment gets tested on a schedule, not assumed from a diagram.
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Sonnet 5.5: 30% faster, slower token burn, and it beats Opus 5.5 on agentic coding by spawning agents cheaper. Mid-tier price is how builders ship. What's your cost per task?
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Shopify gave AI agents the checkout. Amazon blocked agent purchases. Shopify shipped three tools to finish the order with buyer authorization. One builds a wall, one builds a door.
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PrismML fit a 2B vision model onto smart glasses in 0.43GB. 1-bit weights, 74% smaller than 4-bit, double the token speed. Efficiency gets spent, never banked.
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AI tutoring matched expert human tutors on GRE gains at 918x lower cost. $4.81 vs $0.0052 per point. 🔥 Rent intelligence, or own the system?
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