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Mike James retweeted
Head of Product, YouTube
🚨 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: YouTube will start prioritizing original content and reducing re-uploads (RIP clipping)
YouTube has just announced one of the most impactful changes to its short-form algorithm. Its recommendation systems (the algorithm) will start to further prioritize original content and reduce the reach of content re-uploaded from other creators without adding anything of your own.
They highlight this shift toward originality, where channels with primarily re-uploaded content will see less distribution within the Shorts feed.
It also seems like they’re really trying to put the focus on content with real value, while highlighting that YouTube doesn’t want as many “minor technical edits” or “template-based” changes. Which is basically all that clipping was in this industry.
Overall, while this will piss off some people whose entire careers were built on the premise of other people’s content (mostly clippers), the change itself is amazing and will finally address the overall quality issue we’ve been seeing.
Mike James retweeted
Today, @editframe emerges from stealth. Agents need video.
Editframe Agent Skills:
npm create @editframe@latest
Just prompt Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and get a working video or a full interactive GUI.
This video was created just by prompting 👇
Mike James retweeted
We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care.
Mike James retweeted
🇦🇺An Australian tech founder with zero biology background sequenced his dog’s tumor DNA, then used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine.
A month later, the tumors shrank by half.
And this is just the start of AI medicine.
Mike James retweeted
Atlassian just confirmed 1,600 layoffs with 900+ coming from engineering
But I'm hearing the real story from inside
Sources say they've been running "knowledge extraction sprints" for 6 months - recording every senior engineer's screen, logging their prompts, documenting their debugging workflows
One architect told me they made him walk through his entire microservices decision tree while they filmed it. Called it "knowledge transfer for the transition team"
The transition team? 47 contractors in Bangalore with access to his recorded sessions and a Claude Enterprise subscription
Same architect just found out his replacement starts Monday. Guy makes $28k annually and ships code 40% faster using the exact prompt libraries they extracted
They're not just cutting headcount - they're systematizing 15 years of engineering expertise into training data
The "strategic AI focus" isn't about building AI products
It's about replacing their entire engineering culture with agents trained on their senior engineers' knowledge
Word is the CTO replacement already has the playbook: extract, document, offshore, automate
If you're still there and they ask you to "document your processes for the team" - RUN
The knowledge extraction is complete
Mike James retweeted
Thank god MCP is dead
Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was
It's all dumb abstractions that AI doesn't need because AI's are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there which is APIs
The cofounder and CTO of Perplexity, @denisyarats just said internally at Perplexity they’re moving away from MCPs and instead using APIs and CLIs 👀
Mike James retweeted
This is truly the most beautiful video I’ve seen lately
So tender and heart-warming, yet it makes you stop and reflect, with a subtle touch of sadness
We may have gained so much, but perhaps we’ve lost even more✨
Mike James retweeted
Google will win the AI race if it continues with this kind of product focus
No more manually listing out your availability. Gmail's Help me schedule, powered by Gemini, pulls ideal time slots based on your availability in Google Calendar and the context of the email. → goo.gle/3K2DwOS
Mike James retweeted
Why AI Will Ruin Every Movie You Watch (You Won’t See It Coming)
🎥 14.5-min short documentary ⬇️
