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Jun 29, 2026

The Strongest Model Just Dropped, and I’m Not 'Qualified' to Use It

The day GPT 5.5 launched, it showed up in Codex overnight. With 5.6, three tiers and beautiful benchmarks—yet my dropdown was empty. Only ~20 partners got access, each requiring U.S. government approval. I’d worried the best intelligence was becoming about money; now I take half of that back: intelligence you can buy is already the fair kind.

Jun 29, 20267 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 1, 2026

I Spent a Day and a Half Using AI to Make a Literacy Game for My Son

It started when my son quietly told me that he often couldn't get the little red flower for character recognition at school. I used a coding agent to build him a PAW Patrol-themed literacy game, all in about a day and a half. The most surprising part wasn't that my son refused to stop playing—it was my wife's reaction. For the first time, she truly felt that AI had landed right in our living room.

May 1, 202610 min read0 reactions0 comments