🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I switched from Zapier to Make last month after three years on Zapier’s platform. Here’s the short version: Zapier’s Starter plan costs $29.99/month for 750 tasks. Make’s Core plan costs $10.59/month for 10,000 operations. Running the same 15 automations, I used roughly 3,000 Make operations per month versus blowing through Zapier’s 750-task cap in two weeks. The per-task pricing model is where Zapier bleeds you. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Three major AI companies now offer agentic coding models within striking distance of each other on price. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 launched at $1.25 per million input tokens. Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna are in the same ballpark. For the first time since AI coding tools went mainstream, you have real pricing competition — and that changes the math for solo builders. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Meta has a pattern: enter a market with a free or open-source alternative, undercut the competition, and force the entire industry to adjust. They did it with PyTorch against TensorFlow. They did it with Llama against proprietary language models. Now they are doing it with Muse Spark 1.1 in the coding AI space — and if you build without code, this pattern matters. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A 2025 Anthropic study using “representation engineering” found a hidden reasoning layer inside Claude called “J-Space,” where the model processes concepts it never states aloud. In one experiment, researchers swapped the internal representation of “spider” with “ant,” causing Claude to confidently claim the creature had six legs instead of eight. This internal reasoning happens beneath the surface, invisible to users. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been getting the same DM all week: “Is Grok 4.5 worth it, or is this just another Elon Musk hype train?” Fair question. Sam Altman’s calling OpenAI’s model “the best in the world,” Musk’s firing back with “scam to a whole new level,” and Apple’s suing OpenAI. Hard to know what’s real. So I signed up for SuperGrok, ran it through my daily work alongside ChatGPT and Claude, and came away with some genuine surprises. Some good, some not. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 on June 20, 2025, and Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X to announce it. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it directly against Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna. For no-code builders, the key feature is agentic coding: Spark can plan and execute multi-step workflows, not just generate code snippets. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A 2025 survey by Fishbowl found that 68% of knowledge workers now use two or more AI tools weekly, up from 22% in 2023. The shift isn’t about loyalty to one platform; it’s about matching the right model to the right job. I’ve spent the last year testing this approach daily, and the performance gap between a specialized tool and a general-purpose one is real. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been using Claude daily for automations, coding, and content work, and I thought I understood how it worked. You type a question, it generates an answer. Then Anthropic published a paper last week that made me stop and re-read it twice. They found a hidden layer of internal processing in Claude that works like a working memory — words and concepts Claude activates but never shows you — and they built a tool called J-Lens to read it. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been paying for Claude and ChatGPT for months. They’re good. But when Meta dropped Muse Spark 1.1 and I saw “free through the Meta AI app,” I closed both subscriptions tabs and started testing. A free AI coding model that scores within a point of GPT-5.5 on agent benchmarks isn’t a marketing stunt — it changes what a solo builder can afford to run. ...

OpenAI just teased a physical hardware device for its AI coding tool Codex — and it signals that AI-powered development is about to get a lot more accessible.