Vol. I · No. 19FRI, MAY 8, 2026
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How to be better than 99% of Claude Code users while doing less, imo:

tl;dr: your skill in AI is a measure of your **quality** and **scale**. Use **success criteria** and **subagents** intentionally to get excellent results. Use skills and .md docs when you find repeating patterns in your daily work, not before. **---** **Quality** comes from telling the agent what outcome you want, and the **success criteria** that you will use to measure a “good” outcome. This helps avoid Claude's tendency to rush completion. Note this is specifically *not* telling it what to *do*, but instead what to *achieve*. If you come from the old world, you might remember terms like ...

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Absolutely blown away by the utility of the Claude Word add-in

I can have multiple, dense legal documents on my screen, each 40, 60, or 100+ pages each with the Claude Word add-in agents syncing, pushing and pulling information between them, pinging each other, and providing helpful context so that I can draft all three or four in parallel or ensure that an entire package is consistent. I can have a lengthy spreadsheet workbook open containing 10 worksheets and the information is analyzed and pulled in by the agents when needed. I am absolutely blown away at how well this is implemented and the improvement in quality, consistency and efficiency. It ...

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Larger Gemma-4/Qwen3.6

Reddit discussion speculating on future larger MoE variants of Gemma-4 and Qwen 3.6 models.

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Claude down again

In the middle of a long project with Cowork, Claude goes down-AGAIN. I’m abandoning Anthropic for my important projects. It’s become far too unreliable. It’s a shame, because they have a good product, when it works. The company is clearly distracted and overwhelmed with lots of things having nothing to do with day-to-day performance for its customers.

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Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk

Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life." Musk's direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday - even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him in how to answer. But that memory was immediately obliterated by an absolutely miserable cross-examination. For hours, Musk refused to answer yes or no questions with yes or no, occasionally "forgot"...

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Custom Voices and Voice Library

xAI launches voice cloning and voice library management features for Grok API, enabling custom branded voice synthesis from short audio samples.

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llm 0.32a1

llm 0.32a1 patch fixes tool-calling conversation serialization bug in SQLite storage.

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