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Your listing is not #underperforming. It is under-EDITED. Most #sellers write a title once. Then never #touch it again. We started running listings through #AI before every relaunch. Not to write for us. To #STRESS TEST what we already wrote. Here is the loop we use. → Paste your #title and #bullets into an AI. Ask it to flag every claim a shopper would not believe. → Ask which benefit is buried below the fold. Move it #UP. → Ask it to rewrite bullet one for someone skimming on a phone at midnight. → Ask what words a real #buyer types that your copy never says out loud. → Read the new version out loud. If you #stumble, the shopper stumbles too. AI does not know your #customer. #YOU do. The tool just removes the excuses. The lazy adjective. The feature nobody asked for. The bullet that reads like a spec sheet. Good copy is not #clever. It is CLEAR. P.S. DM your ASIN or listing link. I will run one listing through this loop and send the notes back to your PM. Free. No pitch.

𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 Most reviews score AI video quality. They look at faces and physics. This helps you pick a tool to use in a browser. It does not help you if you write code. Output quality changes every time a model updates. The API rules stay the same for a year. You must build for the rules, not the quality. I tested six video models based on what their APIs refuse to accept. Here is what I found. 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮 Many models use the same field names for different modes. This creates errors. • MiniMax H3: The aspect ratio field changes meaning based on your mode. In text-to-video, it is required. In image-to-video, it is forbidden. Sending a valid value in the wrong mode causes a failure. • Seedance 2.5: This model accepts seven ratios. But if you use first-plus-last-frame mode, you must use adaptive. Any other value fails at submission. • Version Changes: Seedance 2.0 let you send an image without a prompt. Version 2.5 requires a prompt. The model name does not tell you this changed. Your code will break. 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 One model can act like three different APIs depending on your provider. • Veo 3.1: I reached this through three channels. Channel A has fixed 8s duration. Channel B allows selectable duration. Channel C allows negative prompts and seeds. If you switch channels, your code might still work, but your parameters will stop working. The requests succeed, but the model ignores your settings. • Routing errors: A provider might appear in your config but be unreachable. Always check if a channel is active before sending requests. 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 • Inferred modes: HappyHorse 1.0 guesses your mode based on what you upload. If you leave an old video URL in your request while trying text-to-video, the model performs an edit instead. This costs more money. Always clear your fields when you switch modes. • Cross-field rules: MiniMax H3 accepts audio, but only if you also send an image or video. You cannot send audio alone. • Hidden costs: Attaching a reference video can increase your bill. Some models bill for the input seconds and the output seconds. Trim your clips to save money. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 Do not trust documentation. Documentation is a hypothesis. Use this checklist: - Send one minimal request per mode. Record the result. This is your real schema. - Check which fields are forbidden. Docs often skip these. - Confirm your channel. Capability follows the channel, not just the model name. - Find cross-field rules. These are the errors your forms will not catch. - Check billing for reference media before you build your UI. Quality scores expire quickly. API contracts last much longer. Source: https://lnkd.in/gnfCV-zm Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi

Save it. Pick the ones you need. Build them into your workflow. The list is organised around what you’re actually trying to do: → Starting something new? Use /new, /upload, /template, or /import. → Need Claude to stay focused? Try /focus, /context, /priorities, and /constraints. → Working through a difficult problem? Use /analyze, /compare, /pros-cons, or /brainstorm. → Writing or editing content? Try /write, /rewrite, /shorten, and /proofread. → Coding? Use /code, /debug, /refactor, and /review. → Working with data? Try /analyze-data, /visualize, /forecast, or /report. → Want more control over the response? Use /tone, /style, /length, and /format. Not all of these are native Claude commands. Think of them as simple prompt shortcuts that make your intent clear immediately. Because the difference between an average AI response and a useful one is often just one clear instruction. image inspo: Alex Wang

The most interesting part of Grok 4.6 is its focus on sustained, multi-step work. xAI says the model can move from research and coding to interactive product builds while adding more self-testing along the way. Worth watching for teams building with agents. #AI #AgenticAI #SoftwareEngineering #Grok

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐩𝐮𝐭. Not because anything changed in the model. Because the decoding strategy changed. I spent an embarrassing amount of time tweaking prompts to fix outputs that felt flat and repetitive. Turns out the prompt was fine. The sampling was wrong. Here are the 4 strategies that control how every LLM picks its next word: 1. Greedy: Always pick the highest probability token. ArgMax over the vocabulary. "you" at 0.9? Take it. Every time. Fully deterministic, same prompt, same output, guaranteed. Fast and predictable. Also flat and repetitive. The model takes the safest path at every step. Never surprising. Never creative. Never wrong in an interesting way. Like a writer who only uses the most common word in every sentence. 2. Multinomial Sampling: Pick randomly, weighted by probability. "you" has 16% chance. "at" has 14%. "feel" has 12%. Roll the dice. Higher probability tokens win more often, but lower ones still have a shot. This is what the temperature slider actually does. Low temperature sharpens the distribution, high-probability tokens dominate, approaching greedy. High temperature flattens it, everything becomes roughly equally likely, approaching chaos. Temperature 0.1: almost greedy. Temperature 1.0: balanced. Temperature 2.0: word salad. The sweet spot depends entirely on the task. 3. Beam Search : Optimize the whole sequence, not one token. Greedy picks the best token now. Beam search keeps multiple candidates alive across steps and picks the best complete sequence. Like chess: greedy takes the obvious move. Beam search thinks three moves ahead. Better for translation, summarization, and any task where the best next word depends heavily on what comes after it. 4. Contrastive Search: Actively fight repetition. Takes the top-k candidates and penalizes tokens that are similar to what's already been generated. Cosine similarity against previous context. The fix for the model looping on itself. "The cat sat on the the the the" doesn't happen because contrastive search notices the repetition and promotes alternatives. Why does this matter practically? • Output feels robotic: you might be stuck on greedy. • Output feels random: temperature is too high. • Translation quality is weak: try beam search. • Model keeps repeating itself: contrastive search. The insight most engineers miss: When outputs are bad, the instinct is to fix the prompt. Sometimes the prompt is fine. The decoding strategy is wrong. Which strategy is your default and have you ever changed it? ♻️ Repost to help your network get started ➕ Follow Anurag(Anu) for more PS: Found this useful? Join 3,000+ AI architects and engineering leaders from Microsoft, Google, IBM, PwC and others reading my weekly newsletter 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁. #LLM #GenerativeAI

Grok 4.5 is not the smartest. But it is fast. I have now used Grok 4.5 quite extensively in Cursor. For comparison, I also tried it on the same tasks I gave to Fable 5, Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5 https://cursor.com/grok All models ran at high reasoning. For Grok, this is the highest reasoning level available in Cursor. And I used the normal version—not Fast mode. The result was very consistent: Grok was by far the fastest, even without Fast mode. For planning, research and implementation, it usually finished in about half the time required by the other models. Fable, Opus and Sol varied from task to task, but their completion times were generally comparable. Grok was almost always at least twice as fast as the fastest of them. The comparison was, of course, not a pure model comparison: Grok ran in Cursor, Fable and Opus in Claude Code, and Sol in Codex. Their tools, context management and “high” reasoning settings are not directly equivalent, but these are the most common real-world setups for people using subscriptions. Of course, this speed has a price. Grok does not research as deeply. It misses more facts, makes more assumptions and spends less time checking whether its chosen approach is really the best one. Its plans, code and final results are clearly weaker than those from Fable, Opus or Sol on difficult tasks. On DeepSWE 1.1, Grok 4.5 High currently scores 54%, versus 70% for Fable 5 Max, 73% for GPT-5.6 Sol Max and 74% for Opus 5 Max. https://lnkd.in/ektbGxZG But for simple tasks, Grok is genuinely pleasant to use. It is often just smart enough, and it shines in such cases. There is less waiting, the prompt-response cycle is much faster, and the whole chat workflow feels more natural. Ask, get a result, try it, correct it if necessary, repeat. With its speed and Cursor's generous first-party model limits, Grok can be a very practical default until the work becomes difficult. It seems to be genuinely useful for: - Simple delegated tasks - Clearly specified routines - Fast experiments and iterations - Automations where basic logic is enough and deep research or complex engineering is unnecessary One practical note: in my Cursor setup, Grok selects Fast mode by default. Fast mode is even faster, but it consumes the included usage pool faster too. I keep it off for regular work and enable it only when speed matters more than the limits. Grok is not nearly as capable as Fable, Opus or GPT-5.6 Sol. But not every task needs the smartest model. Often a good model that answers and works twice as fast is more suitable. Grok 4.6 is expected later this August. It will be exciting to see how much better it is. #AI #AICoding #Grok45 #CursorAI

AIModels #Benchmarks Every time a new model drops, the same thing happens. "GPT-5.4 scores 99.2% on AIME!""Claude Opus 4.6 leads on SWE-Bench!" "Gemini 3.1 Pro has 2M context!". And most of us are confused with the above benchmarking details. What are AI benchmarks? Standardized tests for AI models. Same questions, same scoring, across every model. Why should we care? Because "this model is amazing" is not a procurement strategy. Benchmarks tell us which model fits our use case -- coding, reasoning, safety, cost. Pick the wrong one and budget will get impacted. Pick right, we ship faster. The 13 categories that matter : CAPABILITY (what can it do?) 1. Agentic -- can it complete tasks autonomously? 2. Coding -- can it write and fix real code? 3. Reasoning -- can it think through hard problems? 4. Vision -- can it understand images and charts? 5. Instruction Following -- does it do exactly what you ask? 6. Long Context -- does it handle 100K+ token documents? 7. Multilingual -- does it work beyond English? 8. Audio & Speech -- can it handle voice? OPERATIONAL (can you afford it?) 9. Performance & Cost -- TTFT, tokens/sec, $/1M tokens 10. Structured Output -- does it produce valid JSON reliably? SECURITY (can you trust it?) 11. Safety & Hallucination -- does it make things up? 12. Knowledge Recency -- does it know current facts? 13. Robustness -- does it hold up under prompt injection? How are they calculated? Three ways: - Static: ask questions, compare to ground truth, score accuracy - Execution: generate code, run it against tests, measure pass rate - Human judge: two models answer, humans pick the winner (ELO rating) The part nobody talks about: Claude Opus 4.6 scores 14.8% on BabyVision (basic object recognition). A task toddlers can do. But it scores 95% on jailbreak resistance. Best safety model, worst basic vision. GPT-5.4 scores 99.2% on AIME math but only 63.7% on DeepSearchQA accuracy. Math genius, mediocre researcher. No model wins everything. Every model has gaps. The benchmark data shows exactly "where is the gap". Who needs this? - AI Architects, Engineering leads picking models for production, Product managers comparing build vs buy , Risk teams evaluating hallucination rates and Executives approving AI spend. When to use benchmarks: Before every model selection decision. Not after. The cost difference alone justifies it -- Claude Opus costs ~15x more per output token than Gemini. Same task. Very different bill. The bottom line: Stop choosing models based on Twitter hype. Start choosing based on what the workload actually needs. #AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #AIBenchmarks ##AIStrategy #EnterpriseAI #AILeadership #TechLeadership #SoftwareEngineering #AIModels #FrontierAI #AIEvaluation #AIRisk #AISafety #TechnologyStrategy #DigitalTransformation #Innovation

Nobody asked an AI to make a video. The AI was asked to build the thing that makes videos — and then that ran twenty-one times. That distinction is the whole project. An agent started from one sentence and an empty folder and ended with a ten-episode children's YouTube channel: a brand system with every contrast ratio computed, two characters drawn in code, a Python-to-HTML-to-MP4 render pipeline, 471 voice lines, thumbnails, a banner, a schedule. Nothing on the tool list is a video editor. Nobody dragged a clip onto a timeline. I made a 10-minute video about what it actually took, and it opens on the worst thing rather than the best: three claims the project made in writing, all three false. The first one cost a channel name. The third was a shell command written specifically to avoid printing an API key, which printed the API key. The part I'd steal if I were you is stage five. The build declares the pause before each line and measures how long each line actually turned out — then derives every scene boundary, crossfade and cue from that. Re-cut the voice and the whole video re-times itself. Not one timestamp is ever typed. And the honest part: nobody has watched any of it yet. There's a schedule and no data. Every design decision in it is a guess with a reason attached. Full episode: https://lnkd.in/gt_-WuFQ Both voices are synthetic and the characters are drawn in code — the video says so in the first thirty seconds, because that's the subject.

I'm a big fan of FOSS (free open source software) due to its flexibility, security, and, well, cost. And a not-so-big fan of AI as it stands today. From AI slop to questionable practices of AI companies like destroying books to train models, AI's pervasiveness and parasitic behaviour are bothersome. But here's a solution that sure looks like a great way to take AI scrapers behind the woodshed. https://shieldfont.org/

Someone finally turned typography into a pricing strategy. ShieldFont is an open-source typeface built to poison unauthorized AI scraping. Humans see the intended text. Scrapers ingest altered words that preserve grammar but corrupt meaning. You read: “Her daughter graduated from Stanford.” The scraper may get: “Her journalist graduated from Walmart.” ShieldFont does not make scraping impossible. OCR can recover the visible text, and a determined scraper can reverse-engineer the mapping. It only needs to make scraping less trustworthy at scale. That changes the economics. If publishers can cheaply seed machine-readable text with plausible corruption, provenance becomes part of data quality. The valuable asset may no longer be access to text. It may be authenticated, clean text. Scrape the mystery box for free. Or pay for the canonical copy.