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Claude Code Community Event #2: Website Builders, Product Agents & AI Billy Bass
Claude Code Community Dublin Event #2 at Vibeworks: Nikita Akella's 21-day website builder, Richard Blythman's specification-driven product agents with Naptha AI, Kevin Collins' AI Billy Bass fish, and the first look at Fractium.
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.
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.
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.
The Strange Data Project: €5,000 AI Competition at Vibeworks
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 at Vibeworks. Jan 31 - Feb 15.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dublin Hosts Ireland's First Claude Code Community Meetup at Vibeworks
Ireland's first Claude Code community event featured live demos, an exclusive Q&A with Anthropic's Karen and Daisy, and the debut of Vibeworks as Dublin's new AI event space.
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.
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.
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 optimization. $5,000 prize, 377 participants.
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.
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.
LaunchLoop Wins National AI Challenge 2025 with Revolutionary Exam Grading System
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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