Autonomous AI Agents. Autonomous Businesses. Scrypted Network. Raised from a16z CSX and PTC. Godfather of AVB. cottenio.eth 🫘

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🥇 Which model did it best? "When California gas prices hit $10."
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I mean, if your model isn’t even good enough to be banned by the U.S. government, are you even worth your valuation? To no one in particular.
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I'm a major hypocrite 2 days after saying "loops are overhyped and inappropriate for 99% of people" I'm eating my words EVERYONE should be build AI coding loops. Fable 5 completely changed my mind After one-shotting a ridiculously large, full stack implementation I'm convinced we can set this model off to work autonomously on full applications for hours at a time I'm coming out with a full beginner friendly loop guide soon that ANYONE can use to build autonomous AI building systems. In the meantime I'd highly recommend taking these steps: 1. Set Fable 5 to high thinking 2. Create a skill called /spec 3. Have it make this skill ask you enough questions about the feature you want to build until it properly understands the feature in detail. 4. Have it save this spec to some sort of 2nd brain. I'm using Linear 5. Make skills for /build and /review 6. Have these skills do what they're named based on the specs that got created I'll put out a full guide shortly that covers all of this in detail. It will be the most in depth, beginner friendly loop guide on the internet. No vague posting. Loops are in and they're clearly the future
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Fable for degenerates confirmed.
anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains
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AI subscriptions are dead Claude Fable 5 will only be on the Anthropic subscription until June 22nd. After that, you will need to pay for usage per token This will be the start of a much larger trend Frontier models will no longer be included in subs You’ll pay a fee and it will only get you access to older, much cheaper models If you want access to that dank AI sour diesel, you’re going to need to pay for every token you use. No more subsidies And it make sense. The subsidies were just a Ponzi scheme For those that don’t know, when you pay $200 a month for an AI sub, you get thousands of dollars of tokens These AI companies actively lose tremendous amounts of money because of these subscriptions. GDPs of most countries every year are lost on your $200 Claude Max sub The investor money is running dry. IPOs are coming because of this. And with IPOs need to come profitability The golden age of paying $200 a month and being able to code on 40 Claude Code instances and getting a usage reset every 5 minutes are about to die The party couldn’t continue ever. You can’t just leverage the entire global economy for years and expect nothing to break. Now it’s time to pay up Means a few things: 1. Time to be responsible when it comes to which models you use. You don’t need Fable 5 for GPT 5.5 Xhigh for everything. Build the skill of knowing when to use cheap models 2. Local LLMS/hardware will come even more in demand. I’m currently running GLM on my Mac Studio. It’s great. Is it Fable? No. But it gets the job done for free on simple tasks. Learn about local LLMs 3. This is the beginning of the wealth gap expansion. Those that can afford to spend $10,000 a month on Fable 5 will build incredible products that eat up more and more of the economy. Those that can’t afford Fable 5 will have an insane disadvantage 4. The government will need to step in eventually. There will be too much civil unrest. I hope the answer isn’t free money. That won’t do anything. I hope the answer is education/access to AI resources for ALL. Universal Basic Opportunity 5. You need to seriously reconsider where your money goes every month. If you are complaining about AI prices and in the back of your mind you know your skill set is becoming quickly irrelevant, all while spending money every month on Netflix, Xbox Live, Paramount , drugs, DoorDash, Uber, and other things that bring nothing positive to your life, you are simply doing it wrong. AI is an investment in yourself. It’s an investment in your relevance to the global economy. You need to make sure you make that investment The pieces on the board are quickly moving around. The rules are changing. The battlefield is shifting. If you’re not strategizing accordingly, you’re cooked.
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In less than 5 years SV will be dead, all the VC and dev experience will move to NYC. You know why.
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Tim Cotten retweeted
Most companies: "Help us onboard our 3,000 employees to Claude Code/Codex" Some companies: "Help us build our first end-to-end agent outside of the engineering org" Few companies: "Help us finetune a Chinese/open-source model so we can lower our agent cost by 50%"
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Software is over.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
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Perfectly timed @Reddit, making me hate trying to read reddit just a little bit more. (see bottom of image)
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Unified 48GB or bust.
NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 NEVER BUY A 16GB RAM LAPTOP IN 2026 I repeat: never ever make that mistake you’ll regret it sooner than you think
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Believe it or not, Hermes agent can fix this.
Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

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Non-obvious: the "with" question in Python is really easy to suss out backend experience. Hence why even AI interviewers started using it.
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If you've ever ran technical interviews and are interested in giving anon feedback pls interact. This will be used for creating a comprehensive guide on non obvious things to prep for during interviews.
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accidentally stumbled upon this crazy paper abstract
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Get ready for Crypto Capitol Builders Day 2026 Come practice your pitch! 6/18 June Happy Hour: Pitch Tips Hosted by @DCDAOxyz, @StandWithCrypto , @VABlockCouncil Feedback provided by Naviya Kothari of District Angels 3 min pitch (strict timing will be enforced) RSVP here: luma.com/atxnfmac
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Most AI products are still UX bandaids on top of model demos. Winners will feel like opinionated software, not prompts.
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What’s your most contrarian take?
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Repeat founder. Live product. First integration partner. Use @hf0 to learn from the first integration, build the SDK, and tee up 3 new partnerships after the batch. HF0 told me to post this, so naturally I asked @boardyai to help me overthink it.
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@andrewdsouza key feedback: Boardy called me to do the HF0 application interview, he's still going so fast sometimes he cuts himself off on calls. But otherwise his drilldown game and value identification is strong.
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Found the humans who never took World Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting
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Tim Cotten retweeted
0G stopped hosting AI and started shipping it. Meet 0GM-1.0-35B-A3B, our first proprietary model. Trained on our own GPUs. Open source under Apache 2.0. Live now on pc.0g.ai/models/0GM-1.0-35B-…
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It warms my heart that AVB is indexed enough that LLMs can draw mascots.
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