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There are websites now where you can fill a cart with products, hit checkout, and get a dopamine hit simply from the experience of shopping. You spend nothing. You also get nothing. But your brain gets the dopamine anyway.
Speaking of letting software handle the work for you: this week's pro tip is about getting your AI to write its own goals. Also, Facebook is turning your feed into a chatbot, and Anthropic just put real money behind paying people to use Claude for a living.
Let's get into it.
🔥🔥🔥 Three Exclusive AI Updates
Meta is rolling out AI Mode, a new way to ask questions right inside Facebook. Instead of a generic list of links, Meta AI pulls answers from what real people are posting publicly in Groups and Reels, so you get lived experience over SEO sludge. It runs on Muse Spark, Meta's own model.
There's a creative side too. Facebook can now auto-suggest collages, cut-out templates, and smooth video montages from your camera roll, plus photo presets that swap your outfit with AI (including virtually throwing on your team's jersey). It's all opt-in.
Anthropic launched Claude Corps, a national fellowship that places people early in their careers at nonprofits full-time, in person, for 12 months. Fellows get trained on using Claude well, then spend the year helping their host organization get more done.
This will comprise $85,000 salary plus benefits, ongoing mentorship, and a $150 million initial commitment behind the program. The first cohort of 100 starts in October 2026, and applications close July 17. Anyone over 18 with under two years of work experience and US work authorization can apply.
It's a clear signal that "knows how to actually use AI" is becoming a hireable skill on its own, and a template other companies will likely copy.
Small one, big relief. On web, you can now hover over any chat or project and pin it. Then you can organize your Recents however you like, all in one list or grouped by project. If you live inside ChatGPT, hunting for that one thread from last Tuesday just got a lot less painful.
🔥🔥 Two AI Tools Worth Trying
1. 🛒 Dopamine Shopping
These are fake online stores built for the thrill (of buying) without the bill. You browse nonexistent products, read invented reviews, add to cart, check out, and even track a pretend courier, spending exactly zero dollars. It's oddly clever retail therapy for anyone who loves the ritual of shopping but wants to skip the regret.
2. 🎬 text-to-lottie
Quick context: Lottie is a popular animation format you've seen everywhere without knowing its name, like the little looping graphics in apps, loading spinners, onboarding screens, and button effects. They stay crisp at any size and barely weigh anything, but they usually need a designer in After Effects to make.
This free, open-source tool lets you describe the animation in plain English and have Claude Code or Codex generate a ready-to-use Lottie file. It's at 2.8k GitHub stars and MIT licensed. Install it with: npx skills add diffusionstudio/lottie
🔥 One Pro AI Tip
When you hand a coding agent like Claude Code or Codex a big task, you normally write it a "/goal," a short brief spelling out what to build. The smarter move here is to stop writing those yourself. Ask the agent to write its own goal, then have it spin up helper agents in parallel, each with its own goal, so the work splits up and finishes faster.
Give the agent your high-level ask (say, "build a first-person roller coaster POV ride in Three.js").
Tell it to write its own /goal for the task instead of you writing one.
Ask it to break the job into independent pieces and spawn an agent for each.
Give every spawned agent its own dedicated /goal.
Let them run concurrently and stitch the results together as they come back.
Here's a prompt this creator used to get this: "For this task, write yourself a new goal and spawn agents in parallel, as many as needed to do it better and faster. Split the work into independent pieces, dispatch them concurrently, and synthesize the results as they return. Give each agent its own dedicated /goal."
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Team @PracticalyAI
