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Welcome to The Weekly Fizz!
The Drip
Anthropic had an "oops" moment this week — the Claude Code source code leaked via an NPM package. Engineers on Reddit started picking it apart, and the most interesting debate wasn't about the leak itself. It was about what production code actually looks like. Spoiler: it's messier than most people think. Fifteen catch blocks, commented-out code, things held together with good intentions.
Justin's take: "All the safeguards we have in technology are the result of something going bad the first time." Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. Someone forking Claude Code doesn't make them Anthropic.
Inside The Bottle
This week Justin walked through what we call the Content Machine — the end-to-end process behind how The Fizz goes from a conversation to a full week of published content.
Here's the core principle: everything starts with human thinking. No AI touches the original ideas. Justin writes the long-form article himself. We record the podcast unscripted. The transcript captures our actual words and opinions.
Then AI steps in — but only for distribution. It reads the transcript, suggests episode cuts (turning two hours of raw footage into 30 minutes), drafts the newsletter and LinkedIn posts in our voices, and queues everything for publishing.
Without this system, content would consume over half of Justin's week. With it, the time-intensive work drops from roughly 10 hours to about 1 hour on the editing side alone.
The key insight: AI isn't replacing our thinking. It's making sure our thinking reaches more people without us burning out. One creative act, maximum leverage.
As Justin put it: "We could absolutely spin up Claude and say 'come up with nine hot takes about AI.' But it would sound super AI and fake." Instead, we invest our ideas and get help with the parts that don't require us.
Lab Notes
| ■ | Justin's note: I stopped letting AI write first drafts. Every time I did, I'd read it back and think — that doesn't sound like me. Now the rule is: human draft first, AI editorial second. The AI's job is to help my voice come through more clearly, not replace it. |
| ■ | Kellan's note: The only way you get better at writing is writing. Same as working out. If you offload the reps, you don't improve. I've been intentionally getting those reps back the last few weeks and I can feel the difference. |
Latest Article
We need to remember the "not AI work".
What Stopped Our Scroll
'Silent Killers': How AI Start-Ups Are Solving Retail's Biggest Problem. Generative AI finally made virtual try-on good enough to move the needle on margins. Not a concept demo — real dollars, real use case. This is the kind of AI implementation we talk about: deeply integrated into the business problem, not bolted on top.
OpenAI Hits $25B ARR, Anthropic at $19B — Both Reportedly Eyeing Public Listings. The sheer velocity of these numbers is hard to process. A year ago these were fundraising stories. Now they're IPO stories. This is the scoreboard moment for the AI industry.
The U.S. Kicks Off Push to Sell AI Abroad. The strategy: win the AI race by getting U.S. tech embedded in other countries' digital infrastructure before anyone else can. AI isn't just a product category anymore. This is geopolitics now.
How the AI Transition Is Jolting Big Tech Stocks. Underneath the market volatility is a wholesale restructuring of how the tech business works. If you're wondering why the market feels weird right now, this is a good framing piece.
Musk Asks SpaceX IPO Banks to Buy Grok Subscriptions. Mandatory inclusion. This is what "synergy" looks like in 2026 and it's something.
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