💪 Mighty Brief

X/Twitter: HIGH — AI list buzzing (OpenAI Codex-Spark, TinyClaw, Higgsfield $300M ARR); Leaders list active (Garry Tan, Hiten Shah OpenClaw deep-dive)
Email/Newsletters: HIGH — Every (Claude Code for Finance), Pragmatic Engineer (Kotlin creator on CodeSpeak), Rohan Paul (Gemini 3 Deep Think), John Cutler, James Clear
RSS: MOD — Simon Willison (6 new), Daring Fireball (2), TechCrunch (19), Pinboard (34)
Headlines: MOD — EPA endangerment finding repealed dominates politics; tech mostly AI chatter
Local: LOW — Strib editorial on immigration surge aftermath; Minne Inno 40 Under 40; Ben Leber on Vikings QB

1. OpenAI launches Codex-Spark — Greg Brockman says "living in the future." Dan Shipper: "produces code basically instantly... changes a LOT." Peter Fenton (Benchmark) retweeted the Cerebras partnership announcement. (Brockman, Shipper)
2. Higgsfield: AI video startup → $300M ARR in 11 months, but facing creator backlash over aggressive marketing. (Techmeme / Forbes)
3. Every: "How Claude Code Is Transforming Finance" — Brooker Belcourt on why finance (structured workflows) is perfect for AI but still underdelivering. Claude Code + MCP plugins as the unlock. (Every.to)
4. Hiten Shah's OpenClaw deep-dive — 76-reply session doing deep technical research across multiple models. "Would have taken days/weeks by a human." Multiple OpenClaw mentions trending in tools list. (@hnshah)
5. Gemini 3 Deep Think tops ARC-AGI 2 at 84.6% — Google's reasoning model now leads the benchmark. (Rohan's Bytes)
6. Pragmatic Engineer: Kotlin creator building CodeSpeak — English-based programming language for the AI era. "2026 will be the year of the IDE comeback." 10x code reduction. (Pragmatic Engineer)
7. Sentry acquires XcodeBuildMCP — MCP tooling getting acquired by established players. Signal that MCP is becoming real infrastructure. (@steipete)
8. Levelsio poll: 62.5% think "permanent underclass" before 2030 (n=3,890). The AI anxiety is real and measurable. (@levelsio)

Every: How Claude Code Is Transforming Finance — Brooker Belcourt (Every consulting head). Finance workflows are structured/repeatable = perfect for AI. But teams hit snags and revert. Claude Code + MCP (Daloopa, Carbon Arc) as the bridge. March 13 course announced.
From: hello@every.to | Gmail

Pragmatic Engineer: The Programming Language After Kotlin — Interview with Andrey Breslav (Kotlin creator). Now building CodeSpeak — English-based language for AI era, aims 10x code reduction. Key quote: "2026 = year of the IDE comeback vs terminal-based tools." Also: Kotlin team was almost entirely fresh graduates.
From: pragmaticengineer@substack.com | Gmail

Rohan's Bytes: Gemini 3 Deep Think — Google's new reasoning model tops ARC-AGI 2 benchmark at 84.6%. The reasoning model race is intensifying.
From: rohanpaul@substack.com | Gmail

• John Cutler: TBM 406 — Seeing Everything, Understanding Nothing — "AI is supercharging legacy leadership assumptions about context and control." The Context Trap. Gmail
• James Clear: 3-2-1 — On winning/losing, making the most of accidents. Gmail
• The Information: Downbeat Crypto Looks to AI for Rescue — Consensus conference in Hong Kong; "AI agent" as buzz phrase. Gmail
• Minne Inno: 40 Under 40 honorees revealed — Local. Gmail
• Des Moines Register: From the Editor — Iowa. Gmail
• Nowism (Tom Goodwin): Edition 35 Gmail
• OpenAI: Privacy Policy updates Gmail
• Omnia: COBRA administrator change notice — Admin. Gmail

• Nathan Lands: AI-generated worlds you can "run around in and play" — traditional movies/games becoming niche. Link
• roon: RT @jasminewsun — "We are *really*" [DC trip on AI policy across political spectrum + data centers]. Link
• pmarca: Joe Gebbia (Airbnb co-founder) interview — "First of Kind" — why he went to Washington. Link
• Romain Huet (OpenAI): "You can just fix things!" (re: Codex fixing Cloudflare issues). Link
• adam brotman: RT Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) — "number of jobs AI can fully replace today is vanishingly small." Link
• Yohei (BabyAGI): RT TinyClaw — "OpenClaw in 400 LoC." Link
• roon: "how it feels to use a billion tokens a week skating on the verge of machine psychosis." Link

• Hiten Shah: 76-reply OpenClaw research session — "deep technical research that would have taken days/weeks." Running journal of real work with agent. Link
• Garry Tan: YC W26 Stripe dashboard — "Insane." + "Claude Code all the things." Link | Link
• Garry Tan: RT — Stripe tool calling for AI agents ("this is big"). Link
• Hiten Shah: "Garbage in leads to slop out." Link
• Michael Seibel: Sarcastic take — "painfully obvious the entire private sector is corrupt" → "message too many college aged Democrats are getting." Link

• Molly O'Shea: ElevenLabs Summit in London — "Bullish on Eleven Creative." Link
• Jason Cohen: "Large companies have distribution; startups have innovation." Link
• Techmeme: Higgsfield — AI video, $300M ARR in 11 months, creator backlash. Link

• Matthew Prince (Cloudflare): RT — "Cloudflare accidentally built the best [AI infrastructure]." Link
• Peter Steinberger: Sentry acquires XcodeBuildMCP. + OpenClaw trusted contributors tag for PRs. Link | Link
• Greg Brockman: "Codex Spark feels like living in the future." Link
• levelsio: 62.5% think permanent underclass before 2030. Link

• Steve Grove: Grok unmasking feature doing damage. + Strib editorial: "The surge is ending. The damage remains. Now what?" Link | Link
• Ben Leber: Vikings QB take — skeptical Kyler Murray fits KOC's system. Link
• Finance & Commerce: St. Louis Park approves 33-unit apartment at Minnetonka Blvd/Hwy 100. Link

• Lenny's Podcast: "Engineers are becoming sorcerers" — OpenAI's Sherwin Wu on future of software dev
• Cheeky Pint: Ben Thompson on AI ads, end of SaaS, future of media
• Higgsfield $300M ARR / creator backlash (Forbes)

• EPA repeals greenhouse gas endangerment finding — Massive deregulation move. Lee Zeldin calls it "largest act of deregulation in history." Coverage across AP, CNN, NYT, Axios, CBS, etc.

• RFK Jr. boasts about not being "scared of germs" — cocaine off toilet seats
• The Dragnet Era of Home Security Cameras (WSJ)
• CBS News producer quits in fiery note, blasts Bari Weiss
• EPA dumps greenhouse gas threat
• Trump defamation lawsuit vs BBC → trial in 2027

• Star Tribune: Editorial — "The surge is ending. The damage remains. Now what?" (immigration)
• Minne Inno: 40 Under 40 honorees revealed
• Des Moines Register: Editor's pick — food writing

• #1 find-skills (vercel-labs) — 10.8K installs. Meta: skills for finding skills.
• #7 frontend-design (anthropics/skills) — 2.9K. Relevant: design-for-AI patterns.
• #2 vercel-react-best-practices — 4.9K. Framework patterns.
• #5 vue-debug-guides — 2.9K. Vue debugging.

Nothing strongly aligned to Dan's stack today. Skills ecosystem is growing but still framework-heavy.

• Simon Willison: 6 new posts (check simonwillison.net)
• Daring Fireball: 2 new
• TechCrunch: 19 new articles
• Pinboard Popular: 34 new items — high signal for tool discovery
• The Free Press: 11 new