Sottiaux drops the two-word bomb (9781 likes): 'Hi. It is done.' Plus his Monday reset announcement (6699 likes): 'Usage limits have been reset for all paid ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Happy Monday you all.' And the cybersecurity launch (2564 likes): 'Cybersecurity is changing rapidly. We are broadening access to frontier cyber capabilities through the new Daybreak Blue & Red access tiers and are introducing GPT-5.6-Cyber.' Altman co-signs (6384 likes): 'please consider using our models to help defend your systems.'

Claude makes Sonnet 5 pricing permanent (8642 likes, the highest of the day): 'We are making Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent. We launched Sonnet 5 in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, and that price will remain unchanged.'

Levie on Muse Spark 1.2 open weights (887 likes): 'Meta releasing Muse Spark 1.2 as open weights is a very big deal. America now finally has its response to the open weights AI race. This will continue to help drive down the cost of intelligence, allows companies to run models as they see fit, and post train their own models.' Plus his follow-up (204 likes) about frontier-class capability from a US company available as open weights. Ryo Lu announces departure from Cursor (12341 likes, the biggest post of the entire week): 'I left Cursor. After 10 years inside the tech bubble in San Francisco, Cursor felt like the sharpest version of that world. I'm leaving with gratitude, but also with the feeling that I need a different rhythm. Slower time. Different weather. More culture, aliveness, and humans in the everyday. Asia feels like the right place for that.'

Rauchg on deepsec as a verb (348 likes): 'This tool has become so valuable for cybersecurity defensive work, that it's become a verb within Vercel. Did you deepsec it?' Plus Vercel Sandbox isolation (160 likes): 'Vercel Sandbox isolates both compute and network. Kimi's paper shows container-based isolation is not enough for frontier models. Our egress firewall is now free.' Steipete on OpenClaw headline (589 likes) and his 'Must be load-bearing' post (1317 likes).

Swyx declares war on worktrees (1252 likes): 'worktrees must die. this is 20GB of repeated node_modules lol.' Plus his Luna vs Fable comparison (35 likes) and pdb envs AFS clone (11 likes). Zara reports from Beijing (227 likes): 'At the AGI Bar in Beijing, you can get free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens. Customers vibe code while sipping on beers with names like AGI bubble. You can also buy a Drinking Plan which gives you free beer for the whole year.' Plus her Codex design learning tip (1087 likes): 'Give Codex a well-designed website, ask it to analyze what makes the design great, then ask it to take a screenshot and add annotations breaking down why the design works.'

Thariq on AI skills (292 likes): 'This shows 2 key skills: (1) compute allocation - for most jobs you have to decide what problems are worth it (2) thought partnership - you have to really dig into and understand the proof to know it was real.' Garry Tan on YC for hard tech (341 likes) and China export question (720 likes). Madhu Guru on consumer reasoning (50 likes): 'How do you develop a theory of why someone did something, rather than just a history of what they did?' Plus Wispr mic team purchase (21 likes). Peter Yang's 5 agent takeaways (43 likes). Matt Turck's data classic (33 likes): 'Big Data era: the problem is the underlying data. Modern data stack: the problem is the underlying data. Gen AI: the problem is the underlying data. Agentic AI: the problem is the underlying data.'

No Priors: Elad Gil interviews Melisa Tokmak, founder/CEO of Netic, which builds AI to run millions of real-world businesses (HVAC, plumbing, pet care, hospitality, automotive). Netic agents handle the entire customer interaction layer: voice calls, scheduling, dispatching, lifetime value optimization. Key topics: 70%+ of customers' first interaction is now with Netic agents; why she chose SaaS over roll-up (skill set, scale, product focus); robotics is far future (every building would need to be 3D-printed or standardized); labs can't compete because they lack industry focus and last-mile orchestration; hiring philosophy screens for agency and commitment ("What's the hardest thing you've ever done?"); founders today too focused on short-term exits; and the Martin Luther quote: 'The Christian shoemaker doesn't honor God by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making the best shoes.'