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It's live: Foundations — The Terminal
Course 0 — the terminal basics. Full video walkthrough included, plus a mini-capstone and checkpoint at the end so you can prove to yourself you actually get it. Just Keep Building.
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It's live: Foundations — The Terminal
New feature just went live for you guys.
Affiliate payouts. If you bring someone into CMD & Conquer, you get 40% of their monthly payment. Recurring. Not a one-time bounty, not a "thanks for the referral" gift card. As long as they stay, you get paid every month they're in. Setup couldn't be easier. Hit Invite, grab the link it hands you, and share it. That link is tied to your account, so anyone who joins through it gets counted to you automatically. No codes to track, no spreadsheet, no forms. You share, they join, you get paid. 40% is on the high end on purpose. I'd rather the people already building here get rewarded for pulling in more builders than dump money into ads chasing strangers. You know who actually belongs in here better than any ad targeting does. Quick note while I've got you: if you hadn't noticed, the price to join is now $30/month for new members. Your price does not change. You're locked in where you joined and you stay there. This only affects people coming in from here on out — which, if anything, makes your affiliate link worth more. So if you know someone stuck buying credits, or just trying to figure out how to actually build with AI instead of watching another guru talk about it, send them your link. Grab it under Invite. Share it. It pays you. Just Keep Building.
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AI Literacy 101: the model writes the tool, it isn't the tool
Somebody spent $321 on a 5-hour Claude session and posted the receipt calling it a scam. It's going around right now. Look at the wrong number and you'll agree with him. Look at the right one and you'll never make his mistake. He selected Fable. Some of the work got done by Opus. He called that a silent bait-and-switch. It wasn't. Fable hands certain queries to Opus on purpose. It's a safeguard and it's written in the docs. He wasn't scammed, he was safeguarded. Now here's the number he skipped right past: 252 million cache reads on Opus. In one session. What a cache read is Every time you send another message, the model has to re-read your whole conversation to answer. Your files, your history, everything you've stacked up so far. That re-read is a cache read and you pay for it every turn. Short session, small context, it's cheap. Sit in one session for five hours and never clear anything out, and you're paying to re-read a phone book on every single reply. 252 million reads means he never got out of the chat and never cleaned up his context. That's not the model reaching into his wallet. That's him re-reading his own mess a few thousand times and footing the bill for it. The real mistake A lot of people think the model is the machine. It's not the machine. It writes the machine. You have the model write the script one time. Then you run the script. The script is code. It costs nothing to run and it does the same job every time you fire it. The second you keep the model in the loop doing the actual work over and over, you're paying top dollar to reinvent something you already have sitting in a file. The answer's done. You're just too deep in the chat to go run it. You probably didn't need the API at all This whole $321 bill came off the API. Most of what people are running on the API doesn't need to be on the API. The agentic operator knows you can do almost all of this on your subscription. Twenty bucks a month, flat. Build your workflow, write your scripts, run your terminal sessions, all under the plan you already pay for.
AI Literacy 101: the model writes the tool, it isn't the tool
Super simple project
Hey guys I got another example of the things you can do with Claude in your terminal. This project took about 17mins to build and another hour to get the scroll animation and backend so the forms entries save and send an email to the venue. None of this needed any subscription other than Claude
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Super simple project
A real update on the Anthropic partnership
I finished all 4 courses. I'm ready to take the exam. But here's the thing — it doesn't open until the rest of you finish yours too. So let me tell you what we're building, and why your courses are the only thing in the way. We're building a real company that puts Claude into other businesses. We get certified, we do the work for real clients, and we climb a partner ladder with Anthropic as we go. Right now we're "registered." That's step one. The people who get certified are the company. That's you. You're not watching me build this. You're in it. Here's how it grows: everyone gets certified → the company climbs → businesses come to us → we hand that paid work to our own people. You. The bigger we get, the more it pays for all of us. And the first ones through win. The first to certify are the founding team. First pick of paid work, first shot at the senior and coach roles. Early isn't a little better here. Early is everything. And none of this replaces what we already do here. I'm still teaching. I'm still showing you what's possible, still building in the open every week. The partnership just adds a real path on top of it. Now the part I'm fired up about. I'm taking the exam first. Then I'm building you a study guide: what to focus on, what to expect, so you walk in ready and pass on the first try. I'm not making you figure it out alone. I'll hand you the map. But I can't take it until you finish your courses. The exam opens for all of us once the group is done. So every course you finish moves the whole team closer. The faster you go, the faster we all do. And here's how I run this: the money this community makes goes right back into it. First perk: I'm covering the exam. It costs $49.99, and I'm paying it for everyone who wants to take it. You do the work, I'll cover the cost. The 4 courses, in order: 1. Intro to Agent Skills 2. Building with Claude API 3. Intro to MCP 4. Claude Code in Action (Names might read a little different in the classroom, just follow the order.)
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