Mole Adds Pro Features as Developers Share CI Speedups and AI Video Editing Workflows

Key Takeaways

1. Mole adds Pro capabilities including network and testing features, with a beta toggle available ahead of a formal release.
2. A developer cut CI time across Mole, Kaku and Pake in one afternoon, citing preparation-stage bottlenecks and macOS concurrency limits.
3. Claude Code with Opus 5.5 edited a 58-minute, 14-clip vlog into roughly 10 minutes using transcription, frame grids and a JSON cut list.
4. A founder argues many AI startup ideas are features, not products, pointing to AI video editing as an example.
5. Vikey, a new Vietnamese keyboard app, launched on iOS with automatic English/Vietnamese switching and a claimed 99.73% accuracy.
6. A developer reports that a friend was asked by police to uninstall X and Telegram, and describes app-list and screen-recording uploads by system components on a Xiaomi 14.

1. Developer Tools and CI Performance

1. Mole is keeping its simple, easy-to-use approach while adding Pro capabilities: network and testing features, plus richer system data viewable by tapping tabs in the status panel. The author invited users to try it through a beta switch in settings and said the formal release is still pending 1. Separately, the author said AI has clearly sped up writing code but verification remains slow, especially waiting on GitHub Actions CI, and described overhauling the CI for Mole, Kaku and Pake in one afternoon with good results 2.
2. The CI advice centers on measurement first: pull the last 50 runs with gh and break them into queue, setup and actual test phases, since the common bottleneck is preparation rather than testing. For consecutive PR pushes, use cancel-in-progress to run only the latest, while every commit on main still needs a full run; documentation-only changes should be filtered out via paths, but skipped required checks stay pending and block merges unless handled in advance. Other suggestions include preferring setup-action built-in caching within the 10 GB per-repository limit, building locally twice to confirm the second build is nearly instant, downloading prebuilt tools instead of compiling with go install or cargo install, parallelizing independent jobs, removing needs without data transfer, and splitting the longest test suite 1. Free accounts can run at most 5 macOS jobs concurrently across all workflows, so formatting, lint and dependency audits should move to Ubuntu; after pushing, check actual run times and do another optimization pass to compare before and after 2.
3. Tony Dinh said he uses no MCP at all and considers a sandboxed CLI or an OpenAPI.yaml sufficient for an agent's needs 1. He also wrote that “the harness has started building itself” and commented “the singularity is here,” without providing further detail 2.

2. AI-Assisted Creation and Startup Strategy

1. Claude Code with Opus 5.5 edited a vlog end to end: DJI footage was copied into a folder with the instruction to cut a 10-minute vlog, and the author made only minor adjustments. The pipeline used mlx-whisper (Whisper large-v3-turbo via Apple MLX on a MacBook Pro GPU) for transcription, sampled frames every few seconds into contact sheets for Claude to view, and used the SpeechBrain ECAPA speaker model to distinguish the author's voice from others; thumbnails came from OpenCV's YuNet face detection, and subtitles for the first minute were added with Pillow. The output was a JSON cut list of clips and start/end times, with Claude choosing segments from the transcript and frame grids rather than stitching in order 1 2. The run turned 14 clips totaling about 58 minutes into roughly 10 minutes 3. The author said that without AI editing he might not have continued making vlogs, since editing is painful and slow and hiring an editor is more hassle 4 5.
2. Jon Yongfook said he had imagined a timeline-free AI video editing app where users import raw footage and AI does the rest, but concluded the capability will soon be routine for frontier models or a generic AI feature any app can integrate, like speech-to-text. He argued that many AI-era startup ideas are features rather than products, and a feature should not be forced into a company 1.
3. Tibo said he used four AIs to pose 96 questions and check 2,671 cited sources, finding 74% were blog content and 99% of that sat on companies' own websites; without a blog, he argued, AI has almost nothing to cite, and he offered a prompt-based method for building one 1. He also said he would bet on @marclou over @levelsio for the product skill of capturing attention, calling it the most needed skill right now, while a quoted post bet on @levelsio rebuilding faster even after losing everything and said it is not luck 2. He separately said he joined a recording of Smart Bear Live E12 to give product advice for @jackfriks's Post Bridge, which a quoted post said loses 20% of customers monthly and whose founder knows he should focus on ICP but “doesn't feel like it” 3.

3. Product Launches and Platform Observations

1. Tony Dinh said his new Vietnamese keyboard app Vikey launched on iOS, highlighting automatic English/Vietnamese switching while typing without manual toggling and a claimed 99.73% accuracy, while acknowledging some scenarios it cannot handle 1. He also compiled Black Friday deals for developers, software and SaaS and opened submissions for others' deals 2.
2. @levelsio recommended closing all public ports on a VPS, accessing SSH only through Tailscale and routing web traffic through Cloudflare Tunnel, saying any Linux machine exposing a single TCP port could currently be taken over, with disabling MPTCP as a temporary mitigation 1. He later said Ubuntu still had not patched the vulnerability and that he was considering moving all servers to Debian, arguing that slow patchers will be left behind 2. He also reported that Cloudflare Email Sending had been failing at the account level for 12 hours, returning HTTP 429 and an email.sending.error.throttled error, and publicly asked why 3.
3. @levelsio argued that passkeys stored in password managers are effectively protected by unlocking the password manager rather than biometrics, making them single-factor authentication rather than 2FA 1. He also said AI's second-order effects are eliminating more jobs: HeadshotPro hitting photographers and in turn retouchers and Photoshop licenses, and Gemini image generation replacing related work, adding “it's all Google” with a $GOOG reference 2.

4. Security and Platform Reports

1. A developer said a friend was called by police and asked to uninstall X and Telegram; inspecting a Xiaomi 14 (HyperOS 3), the developer found that “System Security Component” and “SystemHelper” reported app lists to Xiaomi's anti-fraud engine and a Unicom URL respectively, with payloads containing IMEI, IMSI and ICCID fields. The system security component also reportedly recorded about 3 seconds of screen and uploaded it encrypted in Base64 for cloud inspection. Xiaomi's official documentation was cited as saying its anti-fraud service can provide some device behavior data to deep partners and supports querying the past 72 hours of behavior, still detectable after call logs or apps are deleted 1.
2. Graphika reported on October 30 that the China-linked “Spamouflage” network used X accounts posing as US voters to spread divisive content and question election integrity ahead of the midterms; one account with about 200,000 followers, originally a Philippine culture account, went dormant, reposted CCTV content and Mao commemorations, then posed as a US voter posting both pro- and anti-Trump content. AP quoted researchers calling the impersonation “famously clumsy” and unlikely to sway US political debate, though possibly more effective at harassing overseas Chinese and suppressing information; the Chinese Embassy in Washington denied interfering in US elections 1. This item is disputed/unverified as to attribution and effect, with the report's claims and the embassy denial both on record.
3. @levelsio said X removed the “hide replies” button, so he can no longer hide and block AI replies 1.

5. Other Product and Market Signals

1. @levelsio said he is using Opus 5.5 to advance his Earth simulator, focusing on photoreal terrain, seasons, weather and day-night systems that can simulate any location, time, weather and season, demoing a snow-covered Chamonix in December; he rated it imperfect and said he is unsure of the next step 1. He also reposted AnyShot, which plans camera positions, checks for clipping, controls focus and shoots for arbitrary Blender scenes; a single walkthrough that takes 6 hours on a local RTX 5070 Ti completed in about 3 minutes distributed across up to 100 RTX 5090s via @fal, and the project is open source 2.
2. @levelsio said he used Claude Code to decompile the C engine of Battlefield 1942 to run in a browser, but hit obstacles on the multiplayer portion 1 2. He said his gaming PC desktop is gradually moving to the web and old games load faster in the browser than locally on an RTX 5090, so he may no longer need a gaming PC except for Flight Simulator 2024 3.
3. @levelsio compared private aviation and commercial flight safety: the Learjet 60 had roughly a 1 in 1.1 million fatal risk per flight before an accident, versus about 1 in 25 million for quality airlines like Delta, possibly as low as 1 in 40 million; after the accident the Learjet 60 figure is about 1 in 800,000, still about twice as safe as a Cessna Citation. He cited lower pilot hour requirements, lighter private aviation regulation, smaller airports often without ILS, and greater weather sensitivity including icing; the G500/G600, G550 and G650/G700/G800 have no crash records 1.
4. @levelsio predicted that within 10 to 20 years most homes will no longer have combined kitchen-living room layouts, arguing cooking is a major source of indoor air pollution releasing tiny toxic gases into living rooms and that 99% of kitchen exhaust equipment is ineffective absent genuinely effective kitchen air purification 1. He also commented on Spain, saying people receiving state-related income—pensions, civil servants, public-sector employees and subsidy recipients—now outnumber private-sector workers, that over 60% of Spaniards depend on state subsidies, and that criticizing the government therefore draws defense from many people 2.
5. @levelsio said he would not have continued vlogging without AI editing, and separately noted that Cloudflare Email Sending was down at the account level for 12 hours with HTTP 429 and email.sending.error.throttled errors, asking publicly for the cause 1 2.