Hi everyone, just curious, if you can only choose to use Opus 4.8 in one area, would you use it during the planning phase where you're coming up with the folder structure, or would you use it to code?

I kept watching Jake's videos, reading the ICM paper, Karpathy threads… and forgetting most of it a week later. Learning the wrong layer, but with my own knowledge. So I built the thing the content kept pointing at. Not a notes app. An ICM workspace for my own learning. The rules (sound familiar?): - raw/ is immutable. Transcripts, PDFs, papers. The LLM reads, never edits. - wiki/ is the LLM's workspace: entities, concepts, sources, analysis, overview. - index.md = catalog. log.md = append-only timeline. Welcome.md = the schema the agent follows. - Claude Code writes. Obsidian is the front-end. I read; it writes. - Every claim links to a source. No orphan facts. One ingest: I drop a transcript in raw/ and say "ingest it." A single 22-min Van Clief video cascaded into ~10 linked pages in one pass (a summary, 2 new entities, 5 updated pages, index + log), cross-linked, with contradictions flagged rather than silently resolved. After ~3 months: ~35 sources, 84 interlinked pages, every claim cited. No vectors, no RAG. The folder path is in the memory, and I can read every byte. I'm using the method to learn the method. Folders over agents, pointed at my own head. (I'm starting an AI-implementation practice in Brazil built on ICM, so this doubles as the knowledge base behind my client work.) Schema's attached if you want to start your own. What would you ingest first?https://github.com/jarantes-prog/icm-knowledge-vault

It's been quite a journey, in about 1 month and 9 days, we went from 22 members to 20,000... The growth we've faced is amazing. I still remember joining this community back when the link wasn't even public and DMing Jake, the value back then and now is insane. We had our high tea call yesterday and the engagement we had was amazing as well, Jake himself ended up learning something new. This community has grown a lot since day 1 and we aren't stopping yet, Jake has tons of exciting stuff coming (can't leak too much) and we've got so far to go. Even if you go back to the first module ever made, that content is still relevant, we don't follow trends here at Clief Notes, we make systems that last a decade. We'd love to learn more about you guys, the community. What do you guys want more of? Calls? Courses? Topics covered? Assistance? If you guys want anything or hate something that's going on right now, let us know, we take every single piece of feedback and don't worry, we aren't deleting the hate comments like the TikTokers do.

First Monday. First winner. Let's go. @Alexander Paschka topped the 7-day leaderboard with +454 points and earned himself free lifetime VIP access. (Thousands of dollars in value) He was already a paying VIP member, so we upgraded him to Free lifetime access. Free members get upgraded to Premium etc. That's how this works. You show up, you lead, you get taken care of. Now here's the part worth paying attention to. Alexander didn't rack up 454 points by gaming the system. He posted a real Win🏆. One of his clients is buying 10 seats of Claude Enterprise, and Alexander is leading the training. He learned how to do that here. Then he went out and sold it. The community went crazy because that post was useful. People wanted to know how he did it, what he said, how the conversation went. That's engagement you can't fake. You share something real, people respond. And that's the lesson buried in the leaderboard. The thing that got Alexander to #1 is the same thing that works on LinkedIn, on YouTube, on any platform where attention matters. You give people something they can use and they come back for more. The skills that make you valuable in this community make you valuable everywhere else too. I mean its the reason this community exists in the first place. And now you have a place to practice it, if it works here you know it will work every where else. Shoutout to @David Vogel at #2 with +221. David has been showing up in almost every post and every live class adding real, specific, helpful input. Consistent. Week after week. (He earned VIP early on) Keep watching that name. Millenial Cat and Shirsho Guha rounded out the top 4. Respect. The leaderboard resets soon. New week. New race. Whoever is on top next Monday morning gets the same deal. Free lifetime Premium if you're on the free plan. Free lifetime VIP if you're already VIP.