If you started using Claude Code over the holidays, you might be curious about how AI actually works, the benefits and risks, and where it's headed. Here are some of my favorite papers on alignment, interpretability, and societal impacts
- Tweet: https://x.com/trq212/status/2007903193158881323
- What: Curated collection of papers on AI alignment, interpretability, and societal impact for those exploring Claude Code.
Feeling like I should be using Claude Code but have no idea exactly what I should be using it for. Just a bundle of non-technical FOMO over here.
- Tweet: https://x.com/andyorsow/status/2007931911847719290
- What: Expression of uncertainty about practical applications for Claude Code despite wanting to use it.
lovable for videos gets better everyday with new creators joining
check it out:
Quoting @sbsamuelbitenco: we found a better way to do daniel dalen style captions
- Tweet: https://x.com/_kaitodev/status/2007553892968706134
- Link: https://odysser.com/
- Quoted: https://x.com/sbsamuelbitenco/status/2007549416450978065
- What: Lovable's video capabilities expanding with new creators. References improved caption generation approach.
Announcing the release of CC Mirror
The best way to use @Zai_org (GLM 4.7) and @MiniMax__AI (M2.1) Coding Plans
- Full Model Support
- All tools preconfigured
- Custom themes
- Isolated from CC
- Enhanced prompts
Start now: npx cc-mirror
- Tweet: https://x.com/nummanali/status/2007586417094844517
- What: CC Mirror tool launch enabling usage of GLM 4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 models with preconfigured tooling and custom themes.
been here, this never feels good.
this lil set of hooks lets me rest easy it won't happen again
Quoting @nummanali: Lmao I accidentally deleted everything I worked on today. Now I'm tasking codex to reconstruct it using cass (coding_agent_session_search). Probably going to take all night, lets see what happens
- Tweet: https://x.com/alexhillman/status/2006881325849129246
- Link: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/misc_coding_agent_tips_and_scripts/blob/main/DESTRUCTIVE_GIT_COMMAND_CLAUDE_HOOKS_SETUP.md
- Quoted: https://x.com/nummanali/status/2006875686846476556
- What: Git hooks setup to prevent accidental deletion of work. Responding to a cautionary tale about losing a day's work.
@yuzu_4ever https://t.co/PwioZUVYkD
you need this
- Tweet: https://x.com/parcadei/status/2005755875701776624
- Link: https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v2
- What: Python framework for maintaining session continuity in Claude Code workflows. Features ledger-based state persistence, handoff system for session resumption, MCP execution without context pollution, and agent orchestration with isolated context windows. Includes TypeScript execution hooks, Braintrust session tracing, artifact indexing, and compound learning tracking.
Introducing… 💌Sessy
Open-source email observability for AWS SES
Stop paying $$$ for VC-backed SES wrappers just to get a decent UI. Host your own.
💎 Built on Ruby on Rails 🧑💻 Licensed under O'Saasy 💡 Inspired by @37signals' Fizzy
- Tweet: https://x.com/marckohlbrugge/status/2005972157445333371
- Link: https://github.com/marckohlbrugge/sessy
- What: Self-hosted Rails application providing email observability for Amazon SES. Shows email events in a timeline: deliveries, bounces, complaints, opens, clicks. Open-source alternative to expensive SES wrapper services, allowing raw SES usage with beautiful UI for monitoring.
Product link:- https://t.co/hg8PRG7V0I
Github link:- https://t.co/Sk1cQx5LJ8
Check it out 👆🏻
- Tweet: https://x.com/ShadcnStudio/status/2005964727806222598
- Links: Product, GitHub
- What: Collection of 25+ shadcn/ui calendar component variants for React with TailwindCSS. Features single/range picking, multi-month navigation, time slots, and presets. Part of broader shadcn-studio ecosystem with 952 GitHub stars offering customizable components, blocks, templates, and theme generator.
for those who prefer keyboard to drag and drop, https://t.co/wLt0wiAOM1 is quite nice too
- Tweet: https://x.com/joodalooped/status/2006089396861427738
- Link: https://markwhen.com/
- Quoted: Karel Vuong's Lifemap tool for annual reviews and life planning
- What: Keyboard-driven timeline creation tool for planning and visualization. Text-based input alternative to drag-and-drop interfaces, complementary to Lifemap for personal planning and retrospectives.
I spent all of Christmas reverse engineering Claude Chrome so it would work with remote browsers.
Here's how Anthropic taught Claude how to browse the web (1/7)
- Tweet: https://x.com/pk_iv/status/2005694082627297735
- Media: Video demonstration
- What: Technical thread documenting how Anthropic's Claude Chrome extension works internally, with focus on enabling remote browser integration. Paul Klein IV reverse-engineered the extension over the Christmas holidays to enable remote browser functionality.
I forked the wonderful https://t.co/DdVAXh3Du3 to create https://t.co/4jatEKRMZv - here's what I changed in my fork: https://t.co/DmSbkKMNTn
- Tweet: https://x.com/simonw/status/2006851664935006385
- Links: GistPreview, GistHost, Blog Post
- What: Simon Willison forked the 10-year-old GistPreview project to create GistHost, modernizing the tool that lets you view GitHub Gists as rendered HTML pages. His fork fixes handling of truncated large files by fetching from the raw URL when needed, and updates the UI with modern CSS instead of Bootstrap.
Holy sh*t.
Gemini can now produce fully interactive images on any topic.
Such an insane resource for learning → highlight any region, and it gives you a full explanation 🤯
- Tweet: https://x.com/DataChaz/status/2005605994781606141
- What: Google Gemini now generates fully interactive diagrams where users can highlight any region to receive detailed explanations. A powerful visual learning tool that combines generation with interactive exploration of complex topics.
https://t.co/qSe6Y6Qfup now shows a summarized toolbar over any link you hover, perfect to identify clickbait before even opening the link.
- Tweet: https://x.com/steipete/status/2006425901719023628
- Link: https://summarize.sh/
- What: Summarize.sh CLI and Chrome extension now includes a hover toolbar feature that shows AI-generated summaries when hovering over links, helping users avoid clickbait. The tool supports local models, paid providers, and free OpenRouter models for fast content summarization.
I really enjoyed this. There's no sense pretending that this isn't happening, even for those of us selling AI. I don't believe AI is bad, but we do have to reconcile with this reality; it's only a matter of time until this is us tech workers, too
- Tweet: https://x.com/DanielNealAdler/status/2006206247054229798
- Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html (paywalled)
- What: Commentary on a NYT opinion piece about AI's impact on employment. Dan Adler acknowledges the uncomfortable reality that AI displacement will eventually affect tech workers themselves, despite many currently building AI solutions.
Transcribes audio streams in real-time
- Tweet: https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2006262985182834881
- Link: https://github.com/dimastatz/whisper-flow/
- What: Python framework enabling real-time transcription of streaming audio using OpenAI's Whisper model. Unlike batch processing, Whisper-Flow accepts continuous audio chunks and produces incremental transcripts immediately using tumbling window segmentation. 463 GitHub stars.
omg GLM 4.7 is a beast!!!
$3/mo is a steal
- Tweet: https://x.com/donvito/status/2006743894147711370
- Link: https://z.ai/subscribe?cc=fission_glmcode_sub_v1&ic=V8VOHXNASO&n=Melvin%20Vivas
- What: Enthusiastic endorsement of the GLM 4.7 coding model, highlighting exceptional value at $3/month. Follow-up to earlier testing, emphasizing the model's capabilities and competitive pricing.
wow GLM 4.7 is great
tried it in claude code
- Tweet: https://x.com/donvito/status/2006738817773171175
- Link: https://z.ai/subscribe?cc=fission_glmcode_sub_v1&ic=V8VOHXNASO&n=Melvin%20Vivas
- What: Positive first impression of GLM 4.7 model when used in Claude Code environment, part of the GLM Coding Plan offering AI-powered code generation for agents and IDEs at affordable pricing.
@alexhillman ayyyy thanks for this fam! i was able to use Claude opus + anti gravity to put this together in like 2 hours
- Tweet: https://x.com/emmagine79/status/2007051496496714038
- Media: Video demonstration
- What: Community response to Smaug (Alex's Twitter bookmarks organizer), showing rapid implementation success using Claude Opus - built a similar system in just 2 hours, demonstrating the accessibility and power of AI-assisted development.
Powered by Osaurus MCP tools. Claude sees your screen, clicks, types, navigates — you supervise. This is what AI agents look like on Mac.
- Tweet: https://x.com/OsaurusAI/status/2007091913393070168
- Link: https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus
- What: Native macOS LLM server with MCP support enabling Claude to interact directly with the Mac interface - screen reading, clicking, typing, navigation. Runs local or cloud models with OpenAI/Anthropic compatible APIs. Built in Swift for Apple Silicon.
Started working on "Claude HUD"
A Claude Code plugin that visualizes: · context remaining in the session · what tools are executing · which subagents are running · claude's to-do list progress
If there's enough interest, I'll polish it up and open-source it!
- Tweet: https://x.com/jarrodwatts/status/2007035752665034994
- Media: Video demonstration
- What: Work-in-progress Claude Code plugin providing real-time visualization dashboard for session metrics: context remaining, active tools, subagent status, and todo progress. Potential open-source release based on community interest.
I forked the wonderful https://gistpreview.github.io/ to create https://gisthost.github.io/ - here's what I changed in my fork: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/1/gisthost/
- Tweet: https://x.com/simonw/status/2006851664935006385
- Links: GistPreview, GistHost
- Filed: GistHost Fork
- What: Simon Willison forked GistPreview to create GistHost, a tool for rendering GitHub Gists as standalone web pages. The linked article documents his changes and motivations for the fork.
Holy sh*t.
Gemini can now produce fully interactive images on any topic.
Such an insane resource for learning → highlight any region, and it gives you a full explanation 🤯
- Tweet: https://x.com/DataChaz/status/2005605994781606141
- Media: Video demonstration
- What: Google Gemini's new capability to generate interactive images where users can highlight any region to get detailed explanations. Positioned as a powerful learning tool.
https://summarize.sh/ now shows a summarized toolbar over any link you hover, perfect to identify clickbait before even opening the link.
- Tweet: https://x.com/steipete/status/2006425901719023628
- Link: https://summarize.sh/
- Filed: Summarize.sh
- What: A browser tool that displays summary information in a toolbar when hovering over links, helping users identify clickbait without clicking through.
I spent all of Christmas reverse engineering Claude Chrome so it would work with remote browsers.
Here's how Anthropic taught Claude how to browse the web (1/7)
- Tweet: https://x.com/pk_iv/status/2005694082627297735
- What: A thread documenting how Anthropic's Claude Chrome extension works under the hood, with focus on remote browser integration. Paul Klein spent time reverse-engineering the extension over the holidays.
for those who prefer keyboard to drag and drop, https://markwhen.com/ is quite nice too
Quoting @karelvuong: Introducing Lifemap, a new tool to add to your personal annual reviews and 2026 planning. Lifemap lets you conduct a retrospective of your life and develop a roadmap ahead. Every year, my wife and I look forward to the lull during the holidays to work on the biggest project of our lives—ourselves.
- Tweet: https://x.com/joodalooped/status/2006089396861427738
- Quoted: https://x.com/karelvuong/status/2005669812199137476
- Link: https://markwhen.com/
- Filed: Markwhen
- What: A keyboard-first timeline tool for planning and visualization. Complementary to Lifemap (the quoted tool), offering text-based input for those who prefer keyboards over drag-and-drop interfaces.
🗂️ Shadcn Calendar!
Plan, book, and schedule effortlessly with 25 calendar variants built for real-world use cases.
- Tweet: https://x.com/ShadcnStudio/status/2005964727806222598
- Link: https://github.com/themeselection/shadcn-studio
- Filed: Shadcn Studio
- What: An extended collection of 25+ shadcn/ui calendar components with variants for single/range picking, multi-month navigation, and time slots. Part of the broader shadcn-studio ecosystem offering customizable UI components and templates.
Introducing… 💌Sessy
Open-source email observability for AWS SES
Stop paying $$$ for VC-backed SES wrappers just to get a decent UI. Host your own.
💎 Built on Ruby on Rails 🧑💻 Licensed under O'Saasy 💡 Inspired by @37signals' Fizzy
- Tweet: https://x.com/marckohlbrugge/status/2005972157445333371
- Link: https://github.com/marckohlbrugge/sessy
- Filed: Sessy
- What: A self-hosted Rails application providing beautiful observability and monitoring for Amazon SES, eliminating the need for expensive commercial SES wrappers. Shows events in a timeline: sends, deliveries, clicks, bounces, etc.
Replying to @yuzu_4ever's critique of Claude Code: you need this
Context management for Claude Code. Hooks maintain state via ledgers and handoffs. MCP execution without context pollution. Agent orchestration with isolated context windows.
- Tweet: https://x.com/parcadei/status/2005755875701776624
- Parent: https://x.com/yuzu_4ever/status/2005520908656500964
- Link: https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v2
- Filed: Continuous Claude v2
- What: A Python framework for maintaining session continuity and efficient context management in Claude Code workflows, including ledger-based state persistence, MCP execution isolation, and agent orchestration patterns for multi-agent systems.
Replying to @0xUrvish: Hi developers I just launched my animated UI components library
100% open source and free to use it's live now do check it out and would appreciate your feedback https://t.co/DOUxe8w4oy
Try it out: https://t.co/73RgRfaHwk
- Tweet: https://x.com/0xUrvish/status/2006608646730559629
- Parent: https://x.com/0xUrvish/status/2006600544220230083
- Link: https://uselayouts.com/
- Filed: uselayouts
- What: Open-source library of premium animated React components built with Framer Motion and Tailwind CSS. Includes modern micro-interactions and ready-to-use motion components.
Static navbars can be cool too 👀 https://t.co/CkRIvlXUrr
- Tweet: https://x.com/Suupercharged/status/2006787096955203911
- Media: Video demonstration
- What: Short video showcasing static navbar design approaches. Flagged for transcript capture.
- Tweet: https://x.com/bentossell/status/2006352820140749073
- Link: https://x.com/i/article/2006346812785868800
- What: Shared article link (content not yet extracted). Bookmark captures the reference for later review.
Stop guessing why a process is running on your system. https://t.co/F4edRFxOuH
- Tweet: https://x.com/GithubProjects/status/2006747292510925092
- Media: Image with tool/tip
- What: Shared resource or tool for process investigation and system debugging. Flagged for media capture.
Replying to @alexhillman: Feed them to the content operating system I'm building, sort them, save them, and from there create all manner of content from the insights in each post. Ideally automatically.
Also want to track trends, have ideas automatically researched and saved.
The list goes on.
- Tweet: https://x.com/adamkillam/status/2006894238446002261
- Parent: https://x.com/alexhillman/status/2006881998456164772
- What: Adam shares his vision for a content operating system that aggregates, sorts, and automatically generates content insights from bookmarked posts while tracking trends.
Started working on "Claude HUD"
A Claude Code plugin that visualizes: · context remaining in the session · what tools are executing · which subagents are running · claude's to-do list progress
If there's enough interest, I'll polish it up and open-source it!
- Tweet: https://x.com/jarrodwatts/status/2007035752665034994
- What: A Claude Code plugin that provides real-time visualization of session context, tool execution, subagent activity, and task progress. Currently a work-in-progress with plans to open-source if there's community interest.
Powered by Osaurus MCP tools. Claude sees your screen, clicks, types, navigates — you supervise. This is what AI agents look like on Mac.
- Tweet: https://x.com/OsaurusAI/status/2007091913393070168
- Link: https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus
- Filed: osaurus.md
- What: A native macOS LLM server with MCP support that enables AI agents like Claude to interact with the screen, navigate applications, and perform tasks while you supervise. Supports local and cloud models with OpenAI and Anthropic compatible APIs.
Replying to @alexhillman: its late so i'll probably regret posting this but...
enter the dragon 🔥🐲
say hi to Smaug, the helpful hoarding dragon that roams your Twitter bookmarks and helps you organize them into your personal knowledge system of choice.
ayyyy thanks for this fam! i was able to use Claude opus + anti gravity to put this together in like 2 hours
- Tweet: https://x.com/emmagine79/status/2007051496496714038
- Parent: https://x.com/alexhillman/status/2006968571268661423
- What: Community response to the Smaug project announcement, sharing success in using Claude Opus and related tools to build something in just 2 hours. Demonstrates practical application of Smaug for organizing bookmarks into a personal knowledge system.
wow GLM 4.7 is great
tried it in claude code
- Tweet: https://x.com/donvito/status/2006738817773171175
- Link: https://z.ai/subscribe?cc=fission_glmcode_sub_v1
- Filed: glm-4-7-coding-plan.md
- What: Positive endorsement of GLM 4.7 model when used in Claude Code environment. The linked plan offers affordable access ($3/month) to GLM models for coding tasks and agent-based development.
omg GLM 4.7 is a beast!!!
$3/mo is a steal
- Tweet: https://x.com/donvito/status/2006743894147711370
- What: Follow-up endorsement emphasizing the value proposition of GLM 4.7 at $3/month subscription rate. Reflects developer sentiment about the model's capabilities relative to pricing.
Agent Skills for Context Engineering - digital brain implementation
- Tweet: https://x.com/koylanai/status/2005857134311854480
- Link: https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering
- What: GitHub repository containing a digital brain skill implementation for Claude Code, enabling advanced context engineering and knowledge management capabilities.
Discussion about how smartphone addiction affects dopamine levels and causes brain fog
- Tweet: https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2005552148218851769
- What: Explores the connection between smartphone dependency and dopamine dysregulation as a root cause of cognitive impairment and brain fog.
Cloud browser plugin enabling Claude Code to interact with web applications
- Tweet: https://x.com/pk_iv/status/2005694099123478579
- What: Browserbase cloud-based browser solution that extends Claude Code's capabilities for web automation and interaction.
Building a custom Claude Code app that handles ~80% of post-production in a single command
- Tweet: https://x.com/CasJam/status/2005765644394844261
- What: Demonstrates practical applications of Claude Code for automating video post-production: transcription, analysis, clip cutting, and script writing.
Confession: I ship code I never read. Here's my 2025 workflow.
- Tweet: https://x.com/steipete/status/2005451576971043097
- Link: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed
- What: Blog post discussing shipping software at inference speed, embracing rapid AI-assisted development cycles.
I do this for every project (quote of @jordienr about drawer on mobile, dialog on desktop)
- Tweet: https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2005454822083076172
- What: Endorsement of the responsive dialog component pattern that adapts between drawer and dialog based on viewport.
I want to make the most out of Claude Code... One thing to explore more are plugins
- Tweet: https://x.com/rudrank/status/2005215898593034525
- Link: https://github.com/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins
- What: Comprehensive registry of Claude Code plugins: slash commands, subagents, MCP servers, and hooks across multiple specializations.
Tired: PRD + Multi-phase plan. Wired: PRD with 'passing' status on each test case
- Tweet: https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2005232347374141888
- What: Development methodology that combines PRDs with test-driven specification, each feature is one context window large.
This is how you should use MCPs if you can. Instead of loading all MCPs, load 1 which discovers the rest.
- Tweet: https://x.com/0xSero/status/2005355435570958553
- Link: https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/toolkit/
- What: Docker MCP toolkit for dynamic MCP discovery, saving 20k tokens by loading one MCP that discovers others.
Andrej Karpathy literally built the neural networks running inside coding assistants... If he feels "dramatically behind" as a programmer, that tells you everything.
- Tweet: https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2004713516930855284
- What: Commentary on Karpathy's confession about feeling behind, noting the new stack of agents, subagents, prompts, contexts, memory, modes, etc.
Learn more about Claude Code Sandboxing
- Tweet: https://x.com/adocomplete/status/2004977725136888287
- Link: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandboxing
- What: Link to Claude Code sandboxing documentation covering security and isolation features.
Visual content reply
- Tweet: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2004947522889162834
- What: Visual reference or example shared in reply format.
Transcribes and summarizes meetings locally using small language models
- Tweet: https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2004452266640634056
- Link: https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai
- What: Privacy-focused AI meeting transcription and summarization using locally hosted small language models.
Full template for asking Claude Code to onboard a non-technical user
- Tweet: https://x.com/trq212/status/2004575721235141115
- What: Comprehensive prompt template to help non-technical users interact with Claude Code effectively.
Generates screenshots with 3D device mockups
- Tweet: https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2004616272844087678
- Link: https://github.com/YUZU-Hub/appscreen
- What: Tool to create beautiful 3D device mockups and screenshot presentations for iOS App Store.
RSS YouTube player for Apple devices with chapter skipping and no ads
- Tweet: https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2004627732148232504
- Link: https://github.com/fer0n/Unwatched
- What: RSS feed based YouTube video player for iOS, macOS, tvOS with chapter support and no ads.
Years of work is finally ready. Introducing Crosspost.
- Tweet: https://x.com/cameronpetitti/status/2004631941782667685
- Link: https://www.crosspost.app/
- What: Application for managing and crossposting content across multiple social media platforms.
woah...game changer addition to chrome
- Tweet: https://x.com/calebporzio/status/2004651797533917261
- What: Media post highlighting a significant Chrome feature or addition.
Here's my "ask claude code to onboard a nontechnical user" prompt
- Tweet: https://x.com/seconds_0/status/2004684813773799543
- Link: https://code.claude.com/docs/
- What: Comprehensive interview-based onboarding prompt for non-technical users with communication rules and quality standards.
Video demonstration
- Tweet: https://x.com/ryanvogel/status/2004729931943870612
- What: Video content post.
Moved away from react-markdown to streamdown and although its not perfect, its so much better.
- Tweet: https://x.com/hdjirdeh/status/2004020171808428520
- What: Comparison between streamdown and react-markdown for rendering markdown in React with improved formatting and interactive code blocks.
How to adopt AI in your company (or personally). Main point: There is no AI course you can "finish."
- Tweet: https://x.com/PovilasKorop/status/2004099293389463793
- What: Quote highlighting key insight from Steve Ike's AI adoption playbook thread about constant experimentation.
Sideloads apps on iOS using DNS and certificates
- Tweet: https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2004208111532335470
- Link: https://github.com/FrizzleM/BreakFree
- What: Free iOS shortcut for sideloading unlimited apps using DNS and public certificates exploit.
This might be the cleanest AI adoption playbook inside a real product org I've seen.
- Tweet: https://x.com/steve_ike_/status/2003497265495785523
- What: 15-point comprehensive playbook covering practical approaches to implementing AI across organizations, from "How I AI" podcast.
Always Keep Humans at the Center - use AI to remove drudgery and free up time for real, authentic relationships
- Tweet: https://x.com/alexhillman/status/1992252350812270856
- What: Personal reflection on core imperatives with emphasis on keeping humans central to all technology decisions.