AI Learnings - January 9, 2026
AI Learnings - January 9, 2026
Overview
Discussions spanning Claude Code & Workflows, AI Agents & Orchestration, and The Future of Development.
Claude Code & Workflows
- @TheZvi: "Claude Codes"
- @TheAhmadOsman: "some of anthropic rugpulls since August 2025:"
AI Agents & Orchestration
- @bran_don_gell: "If you're building anything with software right now, you need to read this guide (and sub to every)"
- @thegarrettscott: "INTRODUCING: @doanythingapp"
- @danshipper: "Agent-native Architectures: How to Build Apps After the End of Code"
The Future of Development
- @JohnathanBi: "Nothing has made me more optimistic about our AI future than visiting Alpha School"
Other Highlights
- @levelsio: "So I added it to Photo AI as a T-Pose photo pack you can use to create a moving (or dancing) 3d model of yourself"
- @alexhillman: "Resume just continues an old transcript"
- @rohit4verse: "the 2026 ai engineer roadmap"
- @parcadei: "for the skeptics - ran it again on fastapi"
- @BenjaminDEKR: "I have a slightly different take on the Anthropic situation"
Key Takeaways
1. Claude Code continues to reshape how developers approach coding
2. Agent orchestration patterns are maturing with new tools and frameworks
3. The industry is actively debating what AI means for software careers
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Agent-native Architectures: How to Build Apps After the End of Code
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I have a slightly different take on the Anthropic situation.........
People are abusing Claude Max plans and running them automated (Ralph Wiggum etc)
That's NOT what these ((very, very generous)) plans were for and it says so in the TOS.
Adjusted some of my own projects but I get why: you're getting like $1500 worth of API usage for $200 on Max.
They're subsidizing this for HUMAN users. Not for Ralph Wiggums.
I get that there's frustration but throwing fits will probably get Max ended.
You do not want Max ended. Isn't Anthropic's POV on this reasonable?
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INTRODUCING: @doanythingapp
Do Anything Agents are a totally new kind of agent
They:
- work independently for weeks/months+
- have their own email
- self manage entire projects
- can use almost any tool on the web
Today the alpha opens to the public. Here's how they work: https://t.co/PUMYrMBGxJ
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Claude Codes
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If you're building anything with software right now, you need to read this guide (and sub to every).
If you're not building agent-native software now, you're gonna be completely re-building your product in the near future.
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Nothing has made me more optimistic about our AI future than visiting Alpha School.
The dominant doomer narrative is that, even if we solve alignment, AI will automate so much that humans will be left with nothing but meaningless hedonism. As AI does more and more humans are reduced to less and less.
Alpha School shows us that there exists an alternate path where human potential is realized, not truncated, by AI and where work becomes more meaningful.
I shadowed Alpha’s co-founder MacKenzie Price (@mackenzieprice) for a week and was blown away by what I saw. They’ve replaced all of their human teachers with AI tutors that are able to offer bespoke, custom instruction to each student — the same kind of tutorship previously reserved for the aristocracy now scalable through technology. Her students spend only 2 hours a day on academics and yet consistently score 99th percentile in standardized testing and go on to study in the best colleges in the world.
But what about teachers who now have all lost their jobs? They are hired as “guides” who dedicate all of their time to understanding and motivating their students instead of grading papers on the same basic material over and over again. For many, AI has freed them to spend more time on what attracted them to teaching in the first place — building human connection and inspiring the next generation.
In this interview, we dive deep into Alpha’s philosophy and gain insight into the perennial questions in the philosophy of education:
- Can virtue be taught?
- Does nature overpower nurture?
- What is the relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?
Timestamps:
1:54 Our Education System is Obsolete
9:10 AI Tutors, 10x Learning
23:38 Confidence Can Be Taught
36:33 Universities In The Age of AI
40:14 How to Get Kids to Love School
42:22 External vs. Intrinsic Motivation
54:20 We Pay Kids Cold Hard Cash
1:02:13 Kids Want More School
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đź§Ť Very cool idea
So I added it to Photo AI as a T-Pose photo pack you can use to create a moving (or dancing) 3d model of yourself
It auto-generates the correct T-Pose of your model immediately and then converts it into a 3D model you can download (as .fbx) and instantly import into @mixamo to rig it
After rigging you can add any movement from Mixamo to move it however you want
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codename: snake_oil
for the skeptics - ran it again on fastapi
vanilla vs snake_oil
92.5% token reduction
139k → 10k tokens
$0.42 → $0.03
welcome to the game, kid https://t.co/lEzBpaaCij
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the 2026 ai engineer roadmap
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some of anthropic rugpulls since August 2025:
> revoking Max users access outside of Claude Code & banning paid users
> cutting off xai api access
> 5 years retention of all conversations and code, all data will be used for training
> 1.58-bit quantized models during daytime/nerfed models
> plus not getting opus 4 in claude code
> max plans limits cut in half 6 weeks ago, no comms
> weekly limits without concrete numbers
> 5x/20x plans being actually 3x/8x of plus
> DMCA takedowns of repos that have to do with Claude Code, one of which was my own personally
> windsurf no access to claude 4
> cutting off openai api access
what an absolutely horrible company
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Resume just continues an old transcript
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