Rick Manelius, an engineer and repeat startup founder, argues that AI users should shift from one-off prompts to compounding workflows, citing that since Opus 4.5's release around November 2025, tasks…
A developer who creates explainer videos for clients used xAI's Custom Voice feature to clone his own voice for voiceovers, paying about $5 per hour of audio and generating takes faster than real time…
X is the definitive platform for AI discourse, and avoiding it due to hatred of Elon Musk carries career consequences, according to an AI trainer who leads team transformations. Even Meta CEO Mark Zuc…
In a Q3 2026 essay, technology commentator and AI enthusiast (who goes by the handle 'AI;DR') proposes a new policy to combat unedited AI-generated content: if a sender does not review and edit AI out…
Rick Manelius, in a personal newsletter, shares quick takes on heart health, local AI, peptides, and analog-digital balance, noting he invested $5,000 in an NVIDIA GDX Spark to run local models and cr…
HyperFrames, an AI-powered plugin, enables users to create professional explainer videos in 5-20 minutes for a few dollars, compared to the $1,000-$10,000 and 100+ hours previously required. The autho…
AI-generated proof of concepts (PoCs) make it easier, faster, and cheaper to turn ideas into demos, but they also introduce negative effects such as lack of followthrough, decision overwhelm, sunk cos…
A new breed of executive, the Forward Deployed Executive (FDX), is emerging to close the gap between AI adoption and actual business value, as evidenced by a case where a non-technical colleague's dev…
Burnout is rising among tech workers despite AI boosting productivity 2-100x, because users are filling freed time with more projects rather than focusing on fewer, higher-quality tasks, warns startup…
A decade-old hunch about slider puzzles was tested using AI, revealing the author's intuition was directionally correct but not as dramatic as expected. Rick Manelius built a web demo to test whether …
A developer used AI to transcribe, summarize, and index 55 hours of professional development audio from courses by Tony Robbins, Flow Research Collective, Learning Strategies, and Jay Abraham, convert…