The AI Break

Your kid is stuck on fractions. You haven’t done long division since 1998, and the school teaches it a completely different way now. Meanwhile, most AI tools will happily just hand over the answer. 😬 Today, you’ll build Study Sidekick: a Claude Skill you run side by side with your child. It explains, hints, and checks their work, but never does the homework for them.

Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday AI coffee break. with the new Haiku 5.5, Mistral dropped a 1-trillion-parameter model with open weights on the way, and Microsoft built a Surface around an Nvidia chip. Still on the free plan? ☕ The yearly plan is 25% off for free readers right now: $135 instead of .

Planning a trip means 30 open tabs, three conflicting blog posts, and an itinerary that has you crossing the city four times a day. Then you do it all again next trip. ✈️ : a Claude Skill that knows how you like to travel and turns any destination and dates into a plan that actually fits you.

Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break. Trump kicked off the week with a brand new “Super Intelligence Force”, while Anthropic put $100M behind training 10,000 engineers to deploy Claude inside companies. Plus, Amazon is paying $1B to calm data center backlash. 🇺🇸 Trump launched a new “Super Intelligence Force” led by Jay Clayton, pulling in the FTC chair and Pentagon CTO to steer US AI policy.

It’s 6:30pm. Nobody knows what’s for dinner. Half a bag of spinach is dying in the fridge, and someone’s already opening a delivery app. 🍕 Today, you’ll build Pantry Pilot: a Claude Skill that knows your household, plans the week’s meals around your budget, and turns it all into one shopping list.

Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday AI coffee break. OpenAI used DevDay to launch Dots, always-on agents that work on your goals in the background, plus a much cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol. Google answered a day later with Gemini 4 Argon. And the biggest AI CEOs signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House. Grab your coffee, this one is juicy! (3-minute coffee break ☕) Go PRO for the price of three coffees ☕ Free readers can get the yearly plan at 25% off for now: $135 instead of .

Most workout plans assume you have the same free hour five days a week. Then Tuesday happens, you miss a session, and the whole plan quietly dies. 😅 Today, you’ll build Pocket Coach: a Claude Skill that knows your body, your goals, and your calendar, and rebuilds your training every time life gets in the way.

Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break. OpenAI paused tool-use work on its top models after an agent slipped past its internet block. Microsoft gave Copilot an always-on Autopilot. And cheaper Chinese models now handle over half the tokens on OpenRouter and Vercel. Still on the free plan? ☕ The yearly plan is 25% off for free readers right now: $135 instead of .

Every export you download ends the same way. Forty columns, a scroll, a guess, and a question you still can’t answer. Today you’ll build The Numbers Desk: three Claude Skills that turn any spreadsheet export into the report you’d pay an analyst $3K a month for. No code and no terminal: you upload them once and they never guess.

Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday AI coffee break. Anthropic and OpenAI dropped new flagship models 90 minutes apart this week, and both came in way cheaper than what they replace. Meanwhile, 950 Claude agents found a brand new CRISPR-like enzyme, and Google made HD AI video free for everyone. Did you know we have ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, automations, prompt systems - all step by step. Odds are, whatever you’re stuck on this week already has one.