Did Anthropic just kill the indie hacker...?
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Try Blacksmith for free to run your GitHub Actions 2x faster - https://www.blacksmith.sh/ Anthropic just dropped Opus 5 and it may be killing the indie hacker dream. Let's dive in. #coding #programming Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev
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