1. Claude Mods: Flipping the Harness Inside Out For the last few weeks I’ve used Claude Mods to mold Claude Code to my AI engineering workflow. Claude Code is great out of the box, but every engineering workflow is differe 10/21 21:04 ♡
2. [AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback Proudly brought to you by SerpAPI: Today’s release covers a LOT of ground, but you can scrape all this into markdown for your agents ! 50% token cost of JSON. We last covered 10/21 14:54 ♡
3. AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess Last year , Alex Lieberman and his cofounder joined us to explain Tenex’s unusual bet: pay AI engineers for the work they deliver, rather than the hours they spend at a keybo 10/21 13:01 ♡
4. T The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute This was recorded on the sidelines of the new Compute Trading track at AIE NYC . Catch us next at AIE CODE , our last flagship for the top agentic engineers in the world. In the ea 10/21 03:31 ♡
5. [AINews] not much happened today Congrats to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 (details below) but they’re not going to be in super wide use just yet. We are starting to announce AI 10/20 13:21 ♡
6. [AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1 We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco. All your favorite 10/17 15:47 ♡
7. [AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment A version of Muse Spark Open was released today, fulfilling their original promise but with a model weaker than their Spark 1.3. It’s also worth watching the Tesla Roadster d 10/16 12:16 ♡
8. [AINews] Modal’s $1B ARR, $16B Series D makes it NYC’s newest AI Infra Decacorn, 3x usage and 3x valuation in 5 months, 15x in 1 yr Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn . We last caught up with Modal CTO Akshat in July: On the last day of AIE NYC , Akshat had a lot to share abo 10/15 18:08 ♡
9. Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents OpenAI’s Joseph Kim talks about the threshold phenomenon at AIE NY today. One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent auto 10/15 05:40 ♡
10. L Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack , and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand bindi 10/15 04:35 ♡
