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Technical Masterclass · Verbatim Alignment · Nicholas DuLait (@NicholasDulait)

How to use Claude Opus 5.5 for SEO so well it feels illegal

The complete technical masterclass on AI-driven programmatic SEO with Claude Opus 5.5 and ChatSEO MCP: intent patterns, on-page spam defense, DIFF GATE safeguards, link decay reality, and GEO search fan-out brand occupancy.

How to use Claude Opus 5.5 for SEO so well it feels illegal
Anthropic Engineering Guide · Commerce Agents

A guide to the anatomy of effective commerce agents

The architecture, latency & cost techniques, and eval practices for agents that make it easier to buy and sell online. Discover why a single model in a standard loop with skills outperforms subagents, how presentation tools eliminate fragile parsing, how eager dispatch and prompt caching slash latency and cost, and how harness-level deterministic safety and snapshot evals make non-deterministic agents reliable in production.

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Anthropic Engineering Guide · AI-Native SDLC

The AI-Native SDLC Playbook

SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle. When AI accelerates code authoring by an order of magnitude, the real bottlenecks shift to upstream planning and downstream review, testing, and deployment. Learn how Anthropic Applied AI structures the end-to-end loop with versioned artifacts and automated governance.

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Anthropic Engineering Guide · Startup Playbook

The Claude Code Guide For Startups

The five rules startups use with Claude Code to ship like teams 10x their size. Discover how top AI-native teams like Clay, ClickHouse, Cognition, and Harvey leverage everyone-ships culture, custom agent fleets, evaluation golden sets, and git worktrees to out-iterate the competition.

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RAND Research Report · US-China AI

AI Development in the United States and China: Evidence from a New Dataset of AI Developer Firms

An empirical analysis of 1,181 AI developer firms reveals shared technical foundations (~88% vs ~84% Transformer adoption), a sharp commercial divergence into physical embodied systems (61% US pure software vs 74% China physical systems), and global token volume parity driven by open-weight inference economics.

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