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Why Your Enterprise AI Programme Is Failing: It Isn't the Technology
Capability is rising while returns stay flat: 57% of firms still see ROI lagging spend, unchanged since 2025, even as 93% report improved production capability. The bottleneck is tacit knowledge, the undocumented judgement nobody in the building is paid to hand over and that the consultant you hired has every reason to keep. Includes five widely quoted failure statistics that do not survive checking.
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We Built Angry Birds in 30 Minutes: Inside the Claude x Supabase Dublin Meetup
A sold-out Claude meetup with Supabase at Hen's Teeth in Dublin 8: three lightning talks, a guest appearance from co-founder and CTO Ant Wilson, 94 photos from the night, and a complete slingshot physics game built live in the 30-minute build challenge — playable in the article, with the exact prompt that built it.
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How to Build a Real App From One Prompt With Claude Code
Can AI build a real app from one prompt? See a founder build a real platform live in 30 minutes with Claude Code, then get the non-technical step-by-step, an interactive demo, and the exact prompt to run it yourself.
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AI Loops Explained: The 4 Ways to Run Them in Claude Code
Loops are how AI stops answering and starts working. What an agentic loop actually is, why it became the defining pattern of 2025 and 2026, and the four ways to run one in Claude Code: the /loop and /goal commands, dynamic workflows, and agent swarms, with before-and-after prompts for each.
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Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code: How One Prompt Ran 160 Agents for 3 Hours
One prompt. 3h 12m. 11.4M tokens. 160 agents. Inside the dynamic workflow and ultracode setup that built a complete research wiki autonomously on Claude Opus 4.8 — plus the loop pattern (and Boris Cherny's verification rule) so you can do it yourself.
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Inside the May 2026 Claude Code Dublin Meetup
Around 100 people, four speakers, and a 30-minute build challenge at Vibeworks — persistent memory with Obsidian, production Claude Code workflows, AI movie-making, 111 free templates, and what people can ship in half an hour.
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Harness Engineering: The Only Way to Get Ahead in AI Coding
When everyone has access to the same frontier models, the model itself ceases to be a competitive advantage. A complete guide to harness engineering: supplementing existing tools, building custom harnesses, and deploying them at enterprise scale.
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Karpathy's LLM Wiki: How We Built a 2,188-Document Knowledge Base from AI Research
A practical implementation of Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. We extracted 1,414 research tasks from Manus AI, categorised 2,188 documents through GPT-5.4, and built a compounding knowledge base in Obsidian — for under $50.
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How to Fully Automate Claude Code: The Ultimate Guide to Autonomous AI Development in 2026
The complete guide to fully automating Claude Code. Build a 100% autonomous pipeline: PRD to Jira tickets, hooks for quality gates, SonarQube scanning, code simplification, and Chrome DevTools verification.
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Carn.ie: Top 6 at Claude Code Hackathon with Autonomous Drone Search & Rescue
Kevin Collins places top 6 from 13,000 applicants at Anthropic's 'Built with Opus 4.6' hackathon with Carn.ie autonomous drone search and rescue. Built solo in 6 days. Presented at Claude Code's 1st birthday in San Francisco. €15,000 drone donated. Now deploying to save lives.
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4 Bold AI Predictions: Browsers, Payments, Protocols & the Future of Work
The browser interaction layer is broken for AI agents despite 1,300% traffic growth. CLI beats MCP by 35x in token efficiency. 46% of code is AI-generated. Four research-backed predictions on what comes next.
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The Strange Data Project Kicks Off in Dublin
Nomad AI's 16-day competition launched in Dublin. Teams find data LLMs can't access, transform it, and prove measurable improvement. €5,000 prize pool. Demo Day February 15th.
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Claude Code Community Event #2: Website Builders, Product Agents & AI Billy Bass
Claude Code Community Dublin Event #2: Nikita Akella's 21-day website builder, Richard Blythman's specification-driven product agents with Naptha AI, and Kevin Collins' AI Billy Bass fish.
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AI for Good Hackathon: 33 Live Projects Built in One Evening with Manus AI
50+ builders in Dublin. One evening. 33 projects. All live websites. From peatland conservation dashboards to antimicrobial resistance trackers, here's what people built with Manus AI.
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Securing Clawdbot (Moltbot): Port Exposure, Sandboxing & Complete Hardening Guide
900+ Clawdbot instances exposed on Shodan. Never expose your ports to the internet! Official guide: bind: loopback, sandbox configuration, moltbot security audit, and more.
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Claude Code Tasks: Anthropic's New Primitive for Multi-Session AI Development
Anthropic evolves Todos to Tasks in Claude Code—enabling dependency tracking, file-system storage, and multi-session collaboration. Inspired by Steve Yegge's Beads, Tasks are built for complex projects spanning multiple agents and sessions.
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The Strange Data Project: €5,000 AI Competition in Dublin
Nomad AI's flagship competition comes to Dublin. Find data LLMs can't see, transform it, prove measurable improvement. €5,000 prize pool, hosted by Echofold. Jan 31 - Feb 15.
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Gas Town: Steve Yegge's Multi-Agent Orchestrator for Claude Code
Complete tutorial on Gas Town, Steve Yegge's open source system for coordinating 20-30 Claude Code agents in parallel. Learn to set up Towns, Rigs, and Convoys for scaled AI development.
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Startup Strategy Council: Open Source Multi-Agent AI for Strategic Decisions
6 AI advisors that debate your strategic decisions until they reach consensus. Financial Analyst, Market Analyst, Risk Analyst, Game Theorist, Resource Allocation, and Chief of Staff. Built with Claude Code, open sourced by Echofold.
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Ralph Wiggum Claude Code Plugin: Autonomous AI Development Loops
Install the official Ralph Wiggum plugin and turn Claude Code into an autonomous coding machine. The self-referential AI loop that completed a $50k contract for just $297 in API costs.
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The Silver Squeeze and the Silicon Squeeze: Twin Crises at the Heart of the AI Revolution
Silver surged 175% to $80/oz while HBM consumes 3x the wafer capacity of DDR5. Research analysis of how AI demand is creating twin resource crises reshaping global supply chains.
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Claude Code Chrome Extension: AI Browser Automation Now in Your Terminal
Claude Code can now see and control your browser with the new Claude in Chrome extension. Debug local apps, scrape websites, automate forms, and test your builds—all from your terminal.
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Dublin Hosts Ireland's First Claude Code Community Meetup
Ireland's first Claude Code community event featured live demos, an exclusive Q&A with Anthropic's Karen and Daisy, and a new AI event space in Dublin.
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MAKER: Solving Million-Step AI Tasks with Zero Errors
Cognizant's breakthrough framework achieves zero errors across 1,048,575 LLM steps using microagents and voting. This research proves AI hallucination was always a systems design problem.
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The AI Bubble: A Comprehensive Analysis of Collapse Scenarios
Research report based on 120 studies examining potential collapse scenarios for the AI bubble. 95% of businesses report zero ROI from AI investments, and 54% of investors believe valuations are unsustainable.
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LaunchLoop Wins AWS Breaking Barriers Hackathon with ARANO
Team LaunchLoop wins first place at AWS Breaking Barriers Hackathon with ARANO, a hierarchical agentic orchestration system for autonomous network optimisation. $5,000 prize, 377 participants.
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Manus 1.5: Building Full-Stack Web Apps from a Single Prompt
Manus 1.5 transforms web development: create complete applications with backend, databases, and authentication from one prompt in 4 minutes—4x faster than before.
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Anthropic Unveils Claude Skills: Revolutionising AI Automation
Anthropic introduces Claude Skills, a groundbreaking feature that enables customisable, portable AI automation workflows. Rakuten achieved 87.5% workflow time reduction.
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LaunchLoop Wins National AI Challenge 2025 with GradGenie
Team LaunchLoop, featuring Echofold CEO Kevin Collins, claims first place with GradGenie. Grading 61,000 Leaving Cert exams in 1 week instead of 26 days, saving €48 million annually.
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