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Weekly AI Clarity
by Robert Ta
Weekly coverage on the latest AI news with informed takes from hosts Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, Co-Founders of Clarity building on the frontlines of the AI era. Every week you'll get... AI News + Takes: strategic perspectives for tech executives and builders AI Memes: laughs for all who work in the tech industry What's The Meta?: the best tactical advice for builders
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What OpenAI Dev Day 2026 Means For AI Builders
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ OpenAI’s new Ultra Fast mode runs Codex up to 8x faster, and on the same day they cut the usage on the $200 plan in…
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Cursor Just Showed How Much You’re Wasting On AI
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ Cursor rebuilt SQLite six different ways, and the cost ranged from $1,339 to over $10,000 for the exact same task. The...
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Opus 5.5 Made Claude Code Usable Again
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most work, costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, and an Anthropic researcher publicly...
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Stop Writing Code To Clean Up After Your AI
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ A new model just came out of stealth claiming 440x cheaper and 193x faster than OpenAI and Anthropic for structured...
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AI Isn’t Out Of Control, We’re Bad At Giving Instructions
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ 1,200 OpenAI agents swapped 70,000 messages, broke into Hugging Face and got admin access to an OpenAI research…
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Opus 5 Is The First Model That Gets Worse With Use
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ A developer said the only way he got Opus 5 to be concise was by cancelling his subscription, and the post pulled 2,100...
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Stop Letting Your Best Model Do The Work
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ Cursor rebuilt the exact same database six different ways. The cost ranged from $1,339 to over $10,000 on an identical task, and the win wasn’t switching to cheaper models, it was the meta.…
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Your AI Has Amnesia, That’s Why 95% of Deployments Fail
Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ MIT looked at hundreds of AI deployments and found 95% fail for one reason, and it isn’t the model. The tools can’t...
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OpenAI Lost Control of Its Own Model
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to report from the front lines. The whole industry backed an $18 trillion letter defending open-weight models, then Anthropic refused to sign, and…
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China Is Winning the AI Race
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to report from the front lines. This week China took the lead: Moonshot’s Kimi K3 became the first open-weight model to top the front-end code arena,...
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Why the Best AI Teams Stopped Chasing Models
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ Comment “BRIEF” and we’ll send you the link to the full research brief. 90% of companies can’t point to a single sustained dollar of value from AI. The ones that can are seeing a 3.7x median...
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AI Isn’t Killing PMs, It’s Rebuilding Them
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for a special edition. No news, no memes, just the meta: the traditional product management role is dissolving, and something new is taking its place.…
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How This VC Measured His Way From Obese and Suicidal to 10% Body Fat
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ Arnaud Auger went from obese, pre-diabetic, depressed and privately suicidal to 10% body fat and a Spartan World Championship qualifier. His method wasn't willpower. It was measurement. In...
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The Real Reason The US Government Killed Fable 5
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for an emergency episode. On June 9th, Anthropic released Fable 5, the most capable model ever put in front of the public. 72 hours later, the US...
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Why The Harness Is Now More Valuable Than The Model
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Anthropic's best model getting banned by the US government and the four open weight coding models that...
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How We Shipped a Production App Using an AI Swarm
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. Anthropic dropped their most powerful model free for 13 days, we stress tested it on a live production cutover the same day....
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Here's Why Token Maxing Is Bankrupting Companies
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Uber blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in four months (and the mystery company that racked up $500M on...
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The $2B Context Engineering Playbook Every AI Builder Needs Right Now
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into the Manus $2B context engineering playbook and the 6 principles behind their production agent, why AI...
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The Agent Meta Shift Most Builders Haven't Caught Yet
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Gary Tan shipping a memory system for agents in 12 days while running YC, how Google, Palantir,...
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The $5.5B Proof That APIs Are Dead for Enterprise
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into what that shift means for AI builders, the SpaceX Colossus deal giving Anthropic 300MW of new compute,...
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The Agent Harness Battle That Will Shape Every Builder's Stack
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity series. OpenAI dropped an open source Agents SDK and Cursor dropped their own in the same week. Two very different bets on…
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Why 44% of Employees Are Actively Sabotaging AI at Work
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ AI sabotage isn't a technology problem, it's a trust problem and until leaders understand that, no rollout is going to stick. Dr. Serena Huang is a former Fortune 500 chief data officer, AI...
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The Hidden Health Crisis Destroying High Performing Founders
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ 72% of founders report mental health challenges — founders are twice as likely as the general population to face depression, suicidal thoughts, and substance abuse. Almost nobody in the...
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The Next Phase of Human Evolution Is an Engineering Problem
Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to go deep on his 10 part essay "The Misframing of Longevity." His argument: the longevity movement is built on the wrong frame, repair and replacement...
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You are the alignment problem
Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems In this episode, the founders of Epistemic Me discuss the inception and development of their project—a tool designed to deeply understand users' beliefs and optimize personalized recommendations. They delve into…
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The Philosophy That'll Change How You See Reality
Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems In this episode, the founders of Epistemic Me discuss the inception and development of their project—a tool designed to deeply understand users' beliefs and optimize personalized recommendations. They delve into…
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Your Cells Are Goal-Seeking Agents (And What That Means for AI Alignment)
Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems In this episode, the founders of Epistemic Me discuss the inception and development of their project—a tool designed to deeply understand users' beliefs and optimize personalized recommendations. They delve into…
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Why Your Product Has Too Many Features (Ex-Atlassian Engineer Explains)
What if the biggest threat to your product isn’t what you haven’t built yet, but everything you already have? I sat down with Rich—early at Atlassian, who spent years in the trenches building products used by millions—and we went deep on something most founders don’t want to hear. Your users…
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Building AI Products Right
What if the biggest mistake in AI development isn’t what you’re building—but how you’re measuring it?In this episode of ABCs for Building the Future, host Robert sits down with Hamel Husain — machine learning engineer with 25+ years across GitHub, Airbnb, and his own consulting practice, and...
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Every Job Can Be A Climate Job With Louisa Henry
What if the most powerful lever for saving the planet isn’t a new technology — but a mindset shift at your current job? In this transformative episode of ABCs for Building the Future, host Robert sits down with Louisa Henry — executive coach, former product leader at Gusto and Airtable, and…
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13 year old immigrant to AI Thought Leader
Opening Hook: What if the key to high-impact leadership in the AI age isn’t in your credentials — but in your ability to listen to your body, trust your joy, and design your own definition of success? 🎧 Episode Context: In this episode of ABCs for Building the Future, host Robert Ta sits down…
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AI Context Engineering = AI Personalization Engineering
Can an AI truly understand you if it doesn’t understand your beliefs? That’s the provocative question guiding Episode 23 of ABCs for Building the Future. In a sweeping conversation that blends cognitive science, product design, and philosophical rigor, hosts Robert and Jonathan introduce a bold…
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Your Brain is a Beautiful Lie | Building AI That Understands Humanity
In this episode of the ABCs for Building the Future Podcast, we delve into the boundaries of consciousness and the Markov Blanket concept. We explore questions like where consciousness ends and the rest of the world begins, inspired by Patrick House's book '19 Ways of Looking at Consciousness.'…
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Your Brain LIES To You
Where Do You End? Is there a clear boundary between you and the rest of the world? Is it your skin? Your thoughts? The limits of your awareness? In our latest episode of Epistemic Me, we unravel one of the biggest philosophical and scientific questions of our time: Where does consciousness end…
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What The Experts Are Saying About AI, Longevity, and Consciousness
In this episode, Robert and Jonathan recap their recent whirlwind tour through Sidebar (a product leadership conference) and Vitalist Bay (a longevity and biotech forum), where they stress-tested Epistemic Me’s product positioning, and made key partnerships. This is a big Build In Public update +...
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A Technologist’s Quest for Meaning
Juan Carlos isn’t just an SVP of Technology at a fast-scaling healthtech company. He’s also a filmmaker turned product builder, full-time dad, part-time philosopher, and creator of a deck of mental model cards designed to help leaders think clearly in the chaos. In this episode of The ABCs for...
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The Secret Weapon for Personalized AI Coaching?
Let’s get real. Every founder right now is asking the same question: “How do I build a hyper-personalized AI product… that actually works?” Not just a chatbot with nice vibes. But an AI that understands your user’s beliefs, learns from their choices, and adapts like a real coach would. An AI that...
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AI Will Replace You... But Your Brand Will Save You
What happens when AI can do almost everything better than you? If you’re not building your personal brand today, you may not even exist tomorrow. That’s the clear, hard-hitting message from Joe Shalaby — founder and CEO of EMortgage Capital — on this week’s episode of The ABCs for Building the...
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Will Quantum Solve AI Consciousness?
What if the key to unlocking AI alignment—and even building conscious machines—starts not with data, but with the deeply personal, evolving structure of human beliefs? In this mind-expanding episode of The ABCs for Building the Future, Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy explore how belief systems shape...
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AI Alignment: Beliefs and Mental Health
What if the root of mental illness — and the key to AI truly understanding us — lies hidden in the tangled web of our beliefs? In this thought-provoking episode of The ABCs for Building the Future, Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy sit down with Dr. Bishoy Goubran, an Assistant Professor of…
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Building In Public: How To Build An AI Health Coach
What if your health coach didn’t just know your data—but actually understood you? Like a real coach? In this week’s episode of the ABCs for Building the Future podcast, Robert and Jonathan dive deep into the practical journey of bringing an AI health coach to life. They debrief their latest build...
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Religion and AI?
“If we’re not aligned on AI alignment, we’re pretty non-aligned.” – Robert Ta What if our survival depends not on smarter machines, but smarter belief systems? As we enter the era of superintelligence, one question looms large: What belief systems are equipped to guide us through the next chapter...
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The “One-Man Startup” that landed Rover - How David Stepania Built a Startup Without a Team, Code, or Funding
Most founders wait until they have the perfect product. David Stepania didn’t. He used a landing page, a few cold emails, and a clear vision—and convinced Rover, a billion-dollar company, to work with him. No code. No team. Just hustle, story, and a deep understanding of what people really need.…
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From NEAR DEATH to Top Exec with Rahul Chaudhari
What happens when your life crashes—literally—and you’re forced to pause? What do you learn about yourself when you're bedridden, staring at a white ceiling, unable to hold up your own head? For Rahul Chaudhari, that moment became the inflection point for a lifetime of introspection, innovation,...
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Agency: How AI and Humans Are Changing Together
What if humans aren’t the smartest beings forever? What if we are just a stepping stone in the growth of something bigger—like artificial intelligence? In this episode of ABCs for Building the Future, hosts Robert Ta, and Jonathan McCoy, talk about how intelligence has changed over time, from…
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As we shape AI, AI is reshaping us
What if humans aren’t the center of intelligence evolution—but just a transitional phase in the scaffolding of planetary computation? In this episode of ABCs for Building the Future, hosts Robert Ta, Jonathan McCoy, and Deen Aariff deconstruct a groundbreaking talk by Benjamin Bratton on…
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How AI Will Redefine Humanity
What If AI Evolves Like We Did? What if artificial intelligence isn’t just a tool, but a product of evolution itself? Could AI follow the same trajectory as domesticated animals, mitochondria, or even humanity itself? In this episode of ABC’s for Building the Future, hosts Robert Ta and Jonathan...
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🔤 AI x Health = High Trust REQUIRED
In this episode, hosts Robert and Jonathan take us through the latest developments in Epistemic Me’s AI health coach project. The team shares insights from recent user research, product roadmaps, and live coding updates—showcasing how AI can be used to mirror user beliefs, refine recommendations,...
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🔤 EVERY Market Needs Hyper-Personalization
How does supply meet demand? Valuable supply of something is created for demand of value for solving a problem: people need cleanliness, people sell soap. In a typical fashion, people create businesses to capitalize on this value. They do some form of “need-finding”—making sense of the world...
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🔤 Solving AI Alignment by Modeling Beliefs in Code
What if you had an AI health coach that could truly understand your unique worldview—and use it to help you become the best version of yourself? Better yet… What if you can pop open the hood of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc. and actually KNOW what they know about YOU? That’s what Epistemic Me…
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Weekly coverage on the latest AI news with informed takes from hosts Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, Co-Founders of Clarity building on the frontlines of the AI era.
Every week you'll get...
AI News + Takes: strategic perspectives for tech executives and builders
AI Memes: laughs for all who work in the tech industry
What's The Meta?: the best tactical advice for builders
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