Cider Press update Jan 2026
Video update!
Predictions on the stock market, economy and for new college grads : 2026 and the next few years
AI could double the US economy's growth rate over the next decade https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-could-double-the-us-economys-growth-rate-over-the-next-decade-says-anthropic/#ftag=CAD-03-10abf5f This is a likely scenario I believe will play out - “AI could double the US economy's growth rate over the next decade” Till this article
expert discussions
One of the very best features of ChatGPT I rarely hear about is the ability to have a discussion with advanced voice mode, which looks like the above picture.In my case, I'm working on a few vibe-coded apps where I understand some of the technology stack, but
Keep your brain sharp in the GPT-5 era
As I begin to reflexively reach for AI when I want some knowledge or to understand a concept, I know I'm not struggling as much to figure things out, and that struggle can obviously be very helpful.The periods in which I've learned the most about
Rovo Dev Agent: NEW AI Coding Agent with FREE 20M Tokens/Day of Claude 4 Sonnet!
https://www.atlassian.com/solutions/devops/ai-innovation crazy , looks like Rovo Dev agent might actually be really good Dev Agent: NEW AI Coding Agent with FREE 20M Tokens/Day of Claude 4 Sonnet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvXWxGR6o4
2 Things that are incredible at helping me focus
1) I stumbled across this a few months ago and it definitely helps me lock into a flow state much more quickly than I otherwise usually can: brain.fm 2) I've been using the Pomodoro method for a while , but often forget to fire up an app timer
Vibe coding Reddit fun
For anyone interested in VibeCoding, my friend and famous Atlassian developer Don Brown created this Reddit thread which is reasonably active and I think super valuable for anyone trying to track the rapid changes in this ecosystem. Vibe coding for large applications in production Join us there!
College grads are facing something we've never seen, literally
This is a very short segment, which I think is telling of the next several years. The point they make which drives the reality home is that for the first time in history, college grad unemployment is higher than general unemployment (6.6% vs 4.2%), which has never ever
Denver Fireworks 2025!
zoomed to the grand finale
Better App Icons for joy
The two tools I've been using quite a bit are Warp Terminal and Cursor. Most things about those are fantastic, but their icons are so indistinct I was starting to have real trouble finding them amongst my sea of typically about 17 icons when I would rapidly switch
FINALLY voice transcription that works
I've been completely dumbfounded that voice-to-text transcription seems to have not advanced at all in 15 years. Finally, I just randomly ran across this tool, which seems to be pretty good and much better than anything else I've seen. I'm using it more and