Yeah, almost all of the heavy lifting is done the compute clusters of your favorite LLM provider and e.g. PicoClaw will run on <$10 of hardware. That said imo at $599 an M4 mac mini is *a lot* of bang for the buck, I just got mine for breathing room for future – local models etc.
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@testingcatalog — 2026-02-20
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Seedance 2.0 API launch might get delayed due to copyright restrictions. Initially, the target launch date was planned for February 24. Seedance 2.0 is the best video generation model available today.
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Discussion on Anthropic’s product development strategy for AI tools
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Anthropic has no strategy. Claude Code started as someone's side project, and so did Cowork and MCP.
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Advanced AI Systems Incompatible With Current App Store Models
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The higher tiers of AI psychosis are incompatible with today’s “App Store”
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AI Progress From Autocomplete to Compilers: Software Abundance Vision
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I think this group of reactions are still fundamentally rooted in a scarcity mindset of software. 2 years ago AI was botching autocomplete, today it is almost one shotting browsers and C compilers. Where is it in 2 more? 10? 20? Software so insanely cheap and abundant that
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Native Apps vs Mobile Web: Design Tension in AI Platforms
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we will eventually have it, but there's always a tension between native experiences and mobile web (for navigability).
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Encouragement to build with smolagent’s CodeAgent and propose improvements
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Nice work!
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Microsoft tests an AI debate with Copilot
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Microsoft is working on a new Copilot Advisors experiment in which two AI Experts would debate a given topic. Looks like Audio Overviews with Copilot Portraits
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Everyone’s a Coder Now: Quality Over Gatekeeping
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I struggle with the phrase “everyone’s a coder now.” And I hesitate to post because I don’t want you to read this as gatekeeping. If anything, I want more people to build, but in a stronger, more functional way. Building any sort of software is incredibly empowering. Even
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Mega Prompt for 3D Aesthetic Websites
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Steal this mega prompt to generate insane 3D aesthetic websites with Gemini 3.1 Pro: Just copy, paste, and watch it design Apple-level UI with glassmorphism, smooth scroll animations, parallax depth, and production-ready code in seconds. — Act as a world-class Creative