The Archive
Every Wednesday, on the record.
AI for Solo Founders. One tool, the week's news, and an automation worth stealing. Read any issue below.
EP. 013
We Broke Instagram: 1.5M Views on One Claude Edit
My Claude editing reel hit 1.5M views, 109K comments and 30K new followers over Thanksgiving weekend. What happened, what I'm building because of it, and how to get in first. Plus Claude Motion and ChatGPT's new visual answers.
EP. 012
Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra: The Video Edit Test
I gave Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra the same raw clips, the same editing skill, and a one-line prompt. Opus won, GPT caught a detail it missed. Plus ChatGPT's new text watermark, a free year of Claude for startups, Anthropic's three futures for the AI economy, and how to build your AI second brain with the new Clone Yourself module.
EP. 011
Meet dots. OpenAI's Always-On Agent
OpenAI launched dots at DevDay, always-on agents that work while you don't, and mine is already checking me into flights and booking my airport parking. Plus GPT-6.1 Sol, the Hotel Lobby prompt for Higgsfield, the /brag skill for launch videos, and the last day to join the Dojo at $59.
EP. 010
Meta Muse Is the Real Deal
Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna dropped on the same day. I gave Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra one identical prompt to build a Pomodoro timer for web and Mac, and they built almost the same app. Plus the prompt, Meta's new assistant Muse, and the Dojo price change on October 1.
EP. 009
"Slow down." - Dario, Sam, & Elon
An Anthropic researcher quit and said AI could kill us all by 2030, then Dario, Sam and Elon all asked the industry to slow down. Both sides laid out, plus the ChatGPT Work crash course, the two words that make it remember a rule, and why your AI still sounds like nobody.
EP. 008
GPT-6 Astra vs Fable 5.1, Head To Head
GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 got the same brief, rebuild Loom, and one took five and a half hours while the other took thirty five minutes. Plus ChatGPT Images 2.5 with sketching and comment edits, the MSN Messenger clone you can go play with right now, and the image shortcut trend that turns out to actually work.
EP. 007
Fable 5.1 Just Dropped, Plus Two Big ChatGPT Fixes
The most installed skill on earth turned out to be the one I nearly sat down and built myself, plus the menu bar app that ends the guessing about your usage limits, two ChatGPT fixes that were years overdue, and how to turn your Instagram saves into next week's content.
EP. 006
29.8 Million Solo Founders In America
ChatGPT can now watch your screen, publish a live site from a chat, and follow you into any app on your machine, plus the free presentation kit that replaced my slides and a prompt that turns somebody else's reel into your own B-roll.
EP. 005
I Built My Studio With ChatGPT
ChatGPT designed, specced and set up my entire home studio from a real estate listing photo, plus the free gear picker I built off the back of it, and the gear still isn't the reason any of it works.
EP. 004
A Guy In My Community Built This
Novel AI, built from scratch by a member of the Dojo and open for testing this week. Plus ChatGPT going unlimited, Claude Code turning auto mode on by default, and the three files behind my one sentence to finished script system.
EP. 003
I Rebuilt Linktree With One Prompt
The one-prompt Linktree rebuild, why ChatGPT Sites is quietly replacing spreadsheets and decks, OpenAI shutting down Atlas, and the one part of my business I still refuse to automate.
EP. 002
Your Handwriting, As a Font
Opus 5 lands at half the price of Fable 5, OpenAI comes for small business owners, the trial reels app that got me 11,000 views, MagicPattern, and a prompt that turns your handwriting into an installable font.
EP. 001
AI for Solo Founders
The first issue: why voice beats typing, the ChatGPT vs Claude model wars, SayWeave, a $30 founder win, and the AI system that writes this newsletter.
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