Rami's Readings #147 - Opus 4.7 & Qwen3.6
The latest on AI, LLMs, Claude Opus 4.7, Qwen3.6, Mozilla, Cyber Security, Claude Skills & MCPs & Plugins, Claude Caveman, Stanford's AI Index Report, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #147 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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🤖 AI Reads
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Notes: So much more expensive token wise, but quality is improved.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All
Notes: It’s already replaced Qwen3.5 27B for my coding agent work locally. Reddit Thread, Unsloth Quantized Model on HuggingFace.
Thunderbolt — AI You Control
Notes: Important because it is being built by Mozilla. Blog Post.
rowboatlabs / rowboat: AI Coworker Turns Work into a Knowledge Graph
Notes: This project looks a lot like how I use Claude Code + WorkIQ at work.
forrestchang / andrej-karpathy-skills
Notes: Andrej Karpathy’s observations on LLM coding pitfalls fixed by a single Claude.md.
Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now
Notes: Interesting article given all the Mythos discussions.
PurpleAILAB / Decepticon: Autonomous Red Team Testing
Notes: Open source projects equivalent to Mythos.
zubair-trabzada / geo-seo-claude
Notes: Interesting project for Generative AI SEO.
Cocoon-AI / architecture-diagram-generator
Notes: System architecture diagrams as a Claude Code skill.
thedotmack / claude-mem: Persistent Memory Compression System
Notes: I shared Claude-Mem previously, but worth a reshare.
tirth8205 / code-review-graph: Local Knowledge Graph for Claude Code
Notes: Uses ASTs of your project. Not sure how much of a lift this would give if you have LSP correctly configured.
nadimtuhin / claude-token-optimizer
Notes: A project documentation system for Claude that reduces token usage.
drona23 / claude-token-efficient: Keeps Claude Responses Terse
Notes: Implemented as a single CLAUDE.md file.
JuliusBrussee / caveman: Why Use Many Tokens When Few Do Trick
Notes: Similar to the above, but funnier and with a more complex implementation (skills and MCP server).
💼 Business Reads
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report
Notes: A very important report to read every year. Great insights!
AI adoption is spreading at historic speed, and consumers are deriving substantial value from tools they often access for free.
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
Notes: From the famous Steve Blank.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.