Week Marks - Week of February 2, 2026
Anthropic
Super Bowl Ads: Anthropic is keeping Claude ad-free, which ran during the Super Bowl as a direct contrast to ChatGPT. Sam Altman had thoughts.
AI and LLMs
OpenClaw and 1Password’s take on securing AI agent access — local AI running with plain-text credential storage is a real problem.
Mac mini surge and OpenClaw — the argument that what Apple Intelligence should have been is running Claude/GPT locally via open-source frameworks. Many people are stating a Mac mini is overkill for OpenClaw - they are right but missing the point that was running on his Mac so it would have access to his Apple apps - specifically iMessage.
Many people say a Mac mini is overkill for OpenClaw, they’re right. The point is Peter ran it on his own Mac so it can access his Apple apps, specifically iMessage.
Claude Opus 4.6 Harry Potter experiment — feeding the first four books into the 1M context window.
Orchestrating Claude Code agent teams for parallel task execution.
Google Cloud’s 5-Step Playbook for building an AI-ready workforce.
Best practices for Claude Code: context, verification, and planning.
Simon Willison’s 2026 LLM predictions from the Oxide and Friends podcast.
Google Private AI Compute — Gemini in the cloud with hardware-level privacy guarantees.
Warp — recommendation from a friend - switching from ghostty/ for awhile
OpenAI’s Codex App Server — bidirectional JSON-RPC for embedding the Codex agent in products.
Writing high-quality code with AI: project vision, documentation, verification loop.
Moltbook — AI social network where agents interact. Scott Alexander’s take on it.
AI’s impact on B2B SaaS: vibe coding lets customers build custom solutions directly, which puts pressure on traditional SaaS vendors.
Dev Tools
iPhone 18 Pro camera upgrades: Apple testing variable aperture and improved telephoto lens 🤞. I’m always looking for camera improvements.
ReMemory — client-side file encryption with Shamir’s Secret Sharing for key splitting.
ReMemory encrypts your files and splits the key among people you trust using Shamir’s Secret Sharing. You decide how many must come together to unlock them — three of five friends, two of two partners, whatever fits. No single person can access anything alone.
Other
A year of practical 3D printing with a Bambu A1 Mini.
Stanford: Companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees.