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Why Cursor, Claude Code, and MCP Make Me Optimistic for 2026

What's really happening with AI in 2026 as the hype era ends? The common story is that AI will keep dazzling us with flashy demos and benchmarks — but the reality is more complicated. In this video...

1,162 views • 97 likes • 15 comments • December 24, 2025

If This Can Happen to an Ex-DeepMind Leader, It Can Happen to You

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13,344 views • 821 likes • 198 comments • December 23, 2025

Claude Code Snuck in 7 Updates in 2 Weeks—Here's What You Need to Know in 10 Minutes

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23,059 views • 823 likes • 81 comments • December 22, 2025

Is OpenAI a Bubble? Here's the 2026 Test (Unit Economics + Compute + Enterprise Proof)

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18,415 views • 609 likes • 191 comments • December 21, 2025

Amazon Fired Their AI Chief. Here's Why It Took So Long (Plus 5 Newsworthy Moments in AI This Week)

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24,830 views • 935 likes • 63 comments • December 20, 2025

The 4 AI Agents Non-Technical People Actually Need (And How to Use Them Today)

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19,231 views • 868 likes • 45 comments • December 19, 2025

Your AI product sits on both sides: defender and attacker #ai #claude #anthropic

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2,173 views • 108 likes • 0 comments • December 19, 2025

Codex 5.2 Launch Revealed: How OpenAI Got Non-Engineers Shipping Real Code

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7,130 views • 215 likes • 27 comments • December 18, 2025

ChatGPT's "4x Faster" Image Update vs. Google Nano Banana Pro: I Ran 9 Brutal Tests

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11,431 views • 503 likes • 59 comments • December 17, 2025

What I Tell Every CTO Before They Touch Claude Code or the Anthropic API

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19,046 views • 653 likes • 69 comments • December 16, 2025

ChatGPT-5.1 tools aren't advanced anymore, they're normal #ai #chatgpt #aiworkflow

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5,829 views • 233 likes • 6 comments • December 16, 2025

ChatGPT-5.1 has two brains: instant for speed, thinking for wrestling #chatgpt #ai #aiworkflow

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2,993 views • 96 likes • 6 comments • December 15, 2025

ChatGPT 5.2 vs. Claude Opus 4.5 vs. Gemini 3: What Benchmarks Won't Tell You

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21,918 views • 686 likes • 81 comments • December 15, 2025

ChatGPT-5.1: everyone sees emotions, misses the agentic shift #chatgpt #ai #agents

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232 views • 5 likes • 2 comments • December 15, 2025

First documented AI cyberattack: Claude Code used by Chinese state hackers #ai #claude #anthropic

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1,043 views • 48 likes • 1 comments • December 14, 2025

Why AI-Native Companies Are Deleting Software You're Still Paying For (The $56K Lesson)

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27,198 views • 1,055 likes • 116 comments • December 14, 2025

Vanilla AI prompts vs Goldilocks stacking (live comparison) #ai #promptengineering #claude

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578 views • 31 likes • 2 comments • December 13, 2025

Trump Just Gutted State Al Laws, OpenAl Panicked, Al Agents Stole $4.6M--Your 10-Minute Breakdown

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22,141 views • 825 likes • 141 comments • December 13, 2025

Goldilocks prompting is learnable and shareable skill #ai #promptengineering #claude

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717 views • 19 likes • 0 comments • December 13, 2025

Goldilocks prompting you're probably prompting too much or too little #ai #promptengineering #claude

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870 views • 39 likes • 1 comments • December 12, 2025

NEW ChatGPT 5.2 Complete Breakdown: Tested on Excel, PowerPoint, Massive Data Sets, and More

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31,384 views • 1,352 likes • 177 comments • December 12, 2025

Stop buying AI tools until they pass these hard questions #ai #aitools #aiforwork

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1,678 views • 67 likes • 0 comments • December 12, 2025

The Al Trick That Finally Made Me Better at My Job (Not Just Faster)

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19,990 views • 813 likes • 78 comments • December 11, 2025

Lakera Guard blocks prompt injections but isn't perfect #ai #aitools #aiforwork

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123 views • 6 likes • 0 comments • December 10, 2025

NeurIPS 2025 in 12 Minutes: The 6 Shifts Most People Will Miss Until It's Too Late

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34,071 views • 1,194 likes • 44 comments • December 10, 2025

Atlas AI browser clicked through GitHub repo autonomously #ai #atlas #chatgpt #github

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8,499 views • 236 likes • 10 comments • December 10, 2025

The third phase of the web: AI agents acting on your behalf #ai #aiagents #chatgpt #atlas

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5,279 views • 117 likes • 3 comments • December 09, 2025

Grab the Inside Scoop on How Google, Anthropic, and Manus Built Long-Running AI Agents

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15,420 views • 690 likes • 66 comments • December 09, 2025

Why copying data to central locations kills agentic AI #ai #aiforbusiness #aiagents

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3,652 views • 129 likes • 4 comments • December 09, 2025

Semantic layers: the missing piece in AI agent accuracy #ai #aiworkflow #aiagents

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5,480 views • 285 likes • 14 comments • December 08, 2025

Al Agents That Actually Work: The Pattern Anthropic Just Revealed

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70,462 views • 3,235 likes • 282 comments • December 08, 2025

I Stopped Blaming Myself for Bad Days After Learning This Math

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6,797 views • 327 likes • 39 comments • December 08, 2025

OpenAI's 10X growth in 90 days (Codex usage exploded) #ai #chatgpt #codex

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5,760 views • 232 likes • 14 comments • December 08, 2025

Why agentic AI fails without real-time data architecture #aiagents #ai #chatgpt

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7,236 views • 379 likes • 12 comments • December 07, 2025

Why Your AI Agents Keep Failing (It's Not the Model)

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2,864 views • 136 likes • 20 comments • December 07, 2025

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Kimmy-K2 for PowerPoint creation (tradeoffs) #claude #ai #aiforwork

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7,101 views • 318 likes • 8 comments • December 06, 2025

Your AI Can't See 16% of Humanity. Here's the 5-Minute Check That Proves It.

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4,087 views • 213 likes • 21 comments • December 06, 2025

Stop blaming model quality when your planning step is wrong #ai #prompt #aiworkflow

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5,296 views • 291 likes • 7 comments • December 06, 2025

Stop projecting capabilities AI doesn't actually have #ai #chatgpt #aiworkflow

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7,113 views • 368 likes • 8 comments • December 05, 2025

The Al Prompting Mistake CostingYou Hours Every Week (10 Prompts to Fix It)

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10,780 views • 454 likes • 78 comments • December 05, 2025

How advanced prompters build self-correction into AI responses #ai #aiworkflow #promptengineering

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13,811 views • 844 likes • 30 comments • December 05, 2025

Meta-prompting: ask AI to write its own better prompts #ai #aiworkflow #promptengineering

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15,328 views • 1,133 likes • 28 comments • December 04, 2025

The Al Agent Lie: Why Your Automation Is Failing (And the Simple Fix Everyone Misses)

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7,603 views • 326 likes • 22 comments • December 04, 2025

Why experience beats AI skills in senior hiring decisions #ai #futureofwork #aiworkforce

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5,198 views • 279 likes • 24 comments • December 04, 2025

What companies should tell juniors, mid-level, and seniors about AI #ai #futureofwork #aistrategy

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2,140 views • 37 likes • 1 comments • December 03, 2025

JSON: How I Build Perfect Images in NanoBanana Pro

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13,105 views • 570 likes • 59 comments • December 03, 2025

How to prove you're not AI replaceable as a junior employee #ai #futureofwork #chatgpt

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2,480 views • 75 likes • 0 comments • December 03, 2025

AI reads the intimidating documents institutions bet you won't #ai #chatgpt #aiforwork

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6,406 views • 657 likes • 44 comments • December 02, 2025

Burnout Is the Feature: Why 75% of PMs Are Breaking--and How to Stop It

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11,589 views • 394 likes • 61 comments • December 02, 2025

AI levels the playing field but only if you know how #ai #chatgpt #learnwithai

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4,359 views • 219 likes • 6 comments • December 02, 2025