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Most hackathons reward presentations. Polished slides, rehearsed demos, buzzword-heavy pitches. We're not doing that. The Locus Paygentic Hackathon Series is 4 weeks, 4 tracks, and $4,000 in total prizes. Each week starts fresh on Friday and closes the following Thursday, then the next track kicks off the day after. One week to build something that actually works. Week 1 sign-ups are live on Devfolio. The track: build something using PayWithLocus. If you haven't used it, PayWithLocus is our payments and commerce suite. It lets AI agents handle real transactions, not just simulate them. Your project should use it in a meaningful way. Here's everything you need to know: Team sizes of 1 to 4 people Free to enter Every team gets $15 in build credits and $15 in Locus credits to work with Hos...

I’ve been tracking the companies building primitives specifically for agents rather than humans. The pattern is becoming obvious: every capability a human employee takes for granted is getting rebuilt as an API. Here are some of the companies building for AI agents: AgentMail — agents can have email accounts AgentPhone — agents can have phone numbers Kapso — agents can have WhatsApp numbers Daytona / E2B — agents can have their own computers monid.ai — agents can read social media (X, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook) Browserbase / Browser Use / Hyperbrowser — agents can use web browsers Firecrawl — agents can crawl the web without a browser Mem0 — agents can remember things Kite / Sponge — agents can pay for things Composio — agents can use your SaaS tools Orthogonal — agents c...

I want to be honest about something that happened to me because I think it is more common than people admit. Last month I hit a bug in a service I wrote myself two years ago. Network timeout issue, intermittent, only in prod. The kind of thing I used to be able to sit with for an hour and work through methodically. I opened Claude, described the symptom, got a hypothesis, followed it, hit a dead end, fed that back, got another hypothesis. Forty minutes later I had not found the bug. I had just been following suggestions. At some point I closed the chat and tried to work through it myself. And I realized I had forgotten how to just sit with a problem. My instinct was to describe it to something else and wait for a direction. The internal monologue that used to generate hypotheses, that voic...

Everyone thinks McKinsey just built 25,000 AI experts. They didn't. They took a 35-year-old internal database, put a natural language interface on top, and wrote a press release that every major business publication ran without asking a single follow-up question. This is the same play McKinsey has run for a hundred years. ERP in the 90s. Digital transformation in the 2000s. Big data in the 2010s. Each wave the same: new technology creates executive anxiety, McKinsey positions itself between that anxiety and the answer, and companies buy the trend to protect themselves when it fails. The future looks a lot like the past. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdKJaQkgJQ submitted by /u/AmorFati01 [link] [comments]

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Every single Instagram reel or TikTok I scroll i see people mentioning Claude and glazing it like it’s some kind of master tool that’s better than every single other ai assistant. do they run a strong marketing program or is it really that good in contrast to other ai tools? Before i started seeing it for the first time i only heard that it’s a little better for coding, but know i see it everywhere. I've tried it too, but it doesn’t seem to be much different than ChatGPT to me. Is it actually this powerful at the moment? + Not to mention that many people also hate on ChatGPT too. Though it’s still the best one for me (edit): i have never searched for it and I dont think that my algorithm is set to appear claude videos. I believe that it’s viral in general and I know you guys agree submi...

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My friend came over yesterday to dye her hair. She had asked ChatGPT for the 'correct' way to do it. Chat told her to dye the ends first, wait about 20 minutes, and then do the roots. Because of my own experience with dyeing my hair, that made me sceptical, so I read the instructions in the box dye package. It specifically said to mix it and apply everything all at once. That's how this particular formula is designed to work. I read the instructions on the package out loud and told her we should just follow what the manufacturer says. She got visibly stressed and told me that 'ChatGPT said to do it differently'. I pointed out that the company who made the dye probably knows how their own product is supposed to be applied. She still got visibly anxious about going against what ChatGPT told...

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