Sam Altman posted something this week that I keep coming back to. “So far at least, I’m pretty sure AI has been net job-creating. This was not what I expected.” Read that again. The CEO of OpenAI. The person with more direct visibility into AI adoption curves than almost any human on the planet. And…
GPT-5.6 Sol, Physician Benchmarks, and the Uncomfortable Truth About Medical Quality Sam Altman dropped a single line on X that I keep coming back to: “physicians found fewer flaws in GPT-5.6 responses than physician-written responses.” No elaboration. No study link. Just the stat, sitting there. Most people will scroll past it or frame it as…
ChatGPT Work Is Not a Better Chatbot. It’s a Different Tool Entirely. OpenAI dropped a lot of things at once this week. A new model family, a new desktop app, hosted sites, and something called ChatGPT Work. Most of the coverage I’ve seen is focused on the benchmark numbers. That’s the wrong thing to look…
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 and the Compounding Advantage Nobody Is Talking About Today everyone’s eyes are on GPT-5.6. Reasonably so. An 80.0 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, a 53.6 on Agents’ Last Exam (13.1 points above Claude Fable 5 adaptive), ultra mode spinning up parallel agents, ChatGPT Work handling entire workflows from a…
The Ancient World Just Got a New Interface There’s a category of AI application that doesn’t get enough attention. Not chatbots. Not code assistants. The ones that take a domain with deep specialist knowledge, decades of accumulated tooling that only experts can use, and quietly remove the barrier between the question and the answer. Google…
Anthropic Just Found Claude’s Inner Monologue And it has opinions it never shares with you. Last week Anthropic published research that genuinely shifted how I think about what’s happening inside these models. They identified what they’re calling the J-space inside Claude, a structure in the raw neural activations that behaves, in measurable ways, like the…
The Question Nobody in Engineering Wants to Answer Karpathy posted something last week that I haven’t been able to shake. He was watching Claude Fable 5 generate real-time ThreeJS environments from prompts, full 3D scenes with physics, lighting, interactive objects, and he wrote: “I didn’t appreciate that models would be able to create these awesome,…
The Question Nobody Asks Before Signing the AI Contract You spend six months integrating a third-party model into your core workflow. Your team corrects its mistakes every day. You build prompt chains tuned to your industry. You feed it your proprietary documents, your edge cases, your institutional knowledge. And then you renew the contract, and…
Voice AI Will Consolidate Faster Than Text AI Did. Here’s Why That’s Already Happening. The text AI market took years to sort itself out. Dozens of API providers, model wrappers, and orchestration layers competed for developer attention, and honestly that competition produced good things. But voice is a different animal, and I think we’re about…
The Voice AI Problem Nobody Talks About I have built voice pipelines the hard way. Speech-to-text from one vendor, a language model from a second, text-to-speech from a third. It works. Until it doesn’t. And when it breaks at 2am, you get to play a very fun game of “which API is lying to me…
