on the topic of using Claude Desktop for personal projects, happy to report that Claude Design now actually is quite good indeed - last time I tested it it was when it was first rolled out in beta and it's night and then since then
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i use LLMs via CLI at work (pi for the win) so despite being aware of such a thing, i was pleasantly surprised when i told Opus 5 in the claude dsk app about a mobile specific bug for the website i cooked a while ago it just went "well i have the iOS sim, might as well" 👏
interesting - first time I'm seeing an AI being "self-aware" ahead of time about its token/usage quota (opus 5, mid) 👀
quick update from two "5hrs limits" later: Fable seems to have the exact same issue as every other model - once it funnel itself into an idea, it doesn't get out of it no matter what I said. I literally told it to throw away all the code and restart again, and yet he stuck to it
im gonna be far from my personal laptop for a few days so decided to crank things up to max and just give it a big chonky task to see what it'd end up with 🍿 also just realised that it's the first time i'm pushing ANY model above xthink (always got "scared" by cost/consumption)
ICYMI last week the Android team revamped their eval board for Android and ngl I'm somewhat surprised how much better than opus 4.8 Sonnet 5 is. (it's still missing the latest 5.6 gpt rounds tho) 🔗 developer.android.com/bench && announcement: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/and...
can't believe y'all convinced me to start using a software that doesn't let me programmatically change tab colors 🫠 (also, very mixed feelings about their "vouching system"...) github.com/ghostty-org...
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Problem Ghostty supports manual tab coloring (#2509, #10474) and a colorize_tab input binding is in progress (#11085), but there's no way to change a tab's color automatically from a runnin...
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soooo dotfile repos. send me yours (if it's a public one ofc!) - I'm so curious to compare with mine 😂 ...which right now I'm keeping private 😇 (side effect of me actually trying to move over to ghostty 👀)
been using a portfolio website project (not for myself) as my personal project/test bench for models. Aside from the sheer fact that Fable allowed me to reach UI levels unreachable before, here are what I think my key elements if I ever had to do another simple/mid website 🧵
a bit late on this one but i immediately installed on my personal machine and will keep it there forever: MDN is great and i'm sure having the agents able to leverage it better/more directly is gonna make website building better overall 🔗 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
folks i need to expand my horizon, what are some good swift and android newsletters? Something like "this week in react" but for those two native platforms. send me your recs 📩
I don't know about y'all but I feel that lately gpt 5.5 has been degrading quite significantly... I'll switch my core flows to opus 4.8 for a few days and see if it performs 🍿
from what i've read, tbh, I think that we'll see mythos & fable back up sooner than we think. BUT while we wait I want to put a spotlight on one of my fav benchmarks out there: minebench. The author always does great breakdowns, like this one: www.reddit.com/r/singulari...
allright let's talk Fable now for a second: I see quite a few folks talking about it with very big praise. What prompts have you used? How did you interact with it?
⚛️ React repos just moved! GitHub org: /facebook ➡️ /react This reflects the transition to the React Foundation (which will likely be today's newsletter headline BTW)
yes yes I know now everyone will just talk about Mythos and Fable the whole next 24hrs but did anyone poke at the Xcode 27 MCP referenced here? couldn't find dedicated docs 😭 I wanna know if it's decent! The Android CLI is so good I want Apple to build the same thing for iOS.
finally took odysseus for a spin this morning 👀 with Gemma 4 it's mindblowing that this is all running locally on a relatively small ram laptop (24)* as an #oss project it's still rough around the edges but has a ton of potential - amazing amazing stuff
PewDiePie's journey into tech and #opensource has reached its peak and I'm all here for it and the fact that both him and Antirez have been heavily using Deepseek v4 really talks volumes about the impact of that project cant wait to see how it will evolve
it's the end of the month so you know what that means... i have 36hrs to burn through that 50% 😂 🔥🧑💻🔥🧑💻🔥🧑💻🔥🧑💻🔥🧑💻🔥🧑💻🔥🧑💻🔥
gave a first quick run to the new opus 4.8 (xthink) on my personal machine via the Claude app - it ran for circa 3hrs and overall... it feels allright? my initial impression is that this is the "jump" we should have felt with 4.7. not sure if I would use it instead of gpt5.5 tho
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lowkey the "✨Ask" feature on YT is one of the best AI integrations anywhere. probably uses the same brain as NotebookLM under the hood, great timestamps and breakdown. (I don't use it for vids like this one, i just needed an example to take 📸) (but this channel is peak)
I often enjoy torturing LLMs with questions like this since the underlying facts are way outside the with knowledge cutoff and the facts seem wildly unlikely
