Forward Future Brian

How I use Codex to build what I want (for beginners) I've made all of the vibe coding mistakes at this point after 100s of hours of addicted late nights tinkering and building stuff. I'm putting out this video to check it... is there anything missing in my vibe coding process?? How can i get BETTER?

@iamjosh000 explain this?

@ForwardEditor i woke up wondering if i had to make a 4th account today... i did.

Anthropic customers are among the most stressed out people in the world

@Alex_FF Turn screen off it keeps working!

@ForwardEditor My phone now has the voice mode UI screen burned in thanks

Turn on voice mode. Put the phone face down on your desk. Instruct it to stay quiet until you invoke it directly. Do your work like normal, but then Use it as your Google replacement or verbal brainstorm partner that you can access without switching windows

@fattyfatman Dang. My use case was searching restaurants in town while I was in the car. You're talking about the fresh new model?

@ForwardEditor It constantly lies to me and refuses to search for or calculate anything.

New ChatGPT Voice one shot me today imagine there's a friendly customer service agent who knows everything about everything you can call any moment and there's no wait very much a "feels future" moment

@iamjosh000 Maybe they just love the design 👀

hey reddit what's this????

Very fun talk

@iamjosh000 Cursor!

Hot take but you should not have session limits in claude code or codex. only weekly and monthly limits

They are literally giving out GPT-5.6 Terra for free users... THAT IS CRAZY

@MatthewBerman Amazing write up

I’ve been using GPT-5.6 Sol internally for the past two months, I've spent probably 25+ billion tokens. Here’s my review and comparison to Fable 5: > Let's start with the analogy because everyone seems to be giving theirs - GPT-5.6 is likely the last version of the GPT-5 training run series. It's kind of like an athlete at their peak. Through years of experience in the game, they've become the most reliable player and has the highest game IQ. But, there's no more room to grow. Fable on the other hand, being essentially the first version of a new training run, is the first round draft pick rookie. Raw talent mixed with the energy only a young person would have results in some incredible plays we didn't think possible, but also mistakes due to lack of experience. But that rookie will only improve and likely will be better than the veteran ever was because it's a new game and a new era. > GPT-5.6 is genuinely better at long, sustained work. With /goal, I've had it running complex projects for days with almost no intervention. It built a Minecraft-style game, kept adding features and mobs after the core game worked, and only stopped because I stopped the run. I never felt as though I had to jump in and guide it back to the right path. > It keeps finding useful work when you give it a concrete finish line. I had it recreate Excel with a loop. It inspected the real desktop excel app with Computer Use, comparing that against its own build, and closing the gaps. I stopped it after six days after it had built an incredible amount of functionality. > It's faster than other models in two different ways. The raw generation speed is higher, something OpenAI has been putting effort into. But it also takes a shorter path to solutions. It wanders less, changes less code, and generally knows how to get things done directly. In daily use, it feels about 2-3x times faster than Fable. That's my impression, not a controlled benchmark. The difference is large enough that I notice it constantly. > It works well across a wide range of tasks. I use it for one-line edits, quick questions, browser chores, and multi-day builds without changing my prompting style. Speaking of browser control, its the best ever I've used. To the point where I actually use it often. If a task lives on a website, GPT-5.6 usually opens the browser and does it there instead of asking for an API key or forcing everything through the terminal. When I switched back to GPT-5.5, it went straight to the command line even when the browser was clearly the better tool. > And it can handle real browser work, not just toy demos. During a data import, I had it monitor Supabase and resize instances as the load changed. It stayed on the dashboard, adjusted capacity, and checked the result without an API or a custom script. > I also gave it a full Google Workspace migration. It moved Forward Future from forwardfuture.ai to forwardfuture.com, preserved the old aliases, and configured MX, SPF, and DKIM. Before a consequential save, it stopped, explained exactly what would change, and waited for confirmation. > The reasoning setting matters a lot. Light is good for questions and small edits. High and Extra High are the sweet spots for serious work. Ultra usually takes longer than the extra thinking is worth and burns tokens. > I love that 5.6 is split into 3 sizes. Not only can you control speed and cost that way, but you still also have the thinking effort setting for each of them. Very precise controls. I just wish Codex automatically routed my prompts for me. > Its personality is blunt and a little bland. Claude feels warmer and more natural to talk to. GPT-5.6 is more clinical, but I like that for work. It gives me enough explanation and rarely pads the answer. I usually have to ask Fable to explain things more simply and/or more concise. > Its front-end taste has improved, but the default is predictable. Left alone, it turns websites into PowerPoint decks with huge statements and hard section breaks. The good news is that it takes design direction well and can revise without destroying the parts that already work. > It still makes confident mistakes. I asked it to rebuild parts of a system, and it told me the job was finished. Later, I found out it wasn't. Bits of its internal process also leak into the answer occasionally. > Claude Fable is more naturally autonomous on large, open-ended projects. GPT-5.6 is easier to reach for. I don't need to invent a huge project to justify using it. It works just as well for a small edit or browser chore. > GPT-5.6 is also cheaper. Sol costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens. Fable costs $10 and $50. Cached input is cheaper too. Still, cost per finished task matters more than cost per token. > GPT-5.6 isn't the best at everything, and it still needs supervision. But it generates faster, wanders less, works at almost any scale, and wastes less of my time. It's the model I have the most confidence in to get the job done right the first time. I put together a full breakdown with all the tests, prompts, and examples on a site. You can read it here: signals.forwardfuture.com/gpt-5-6-review/

@jonahlipsitt im soooo frickin excited

Come watch! This will be a good one!

this shirt goes way too hard

@ImLukeF @AnthropicAI Codex is an easy choice here 100%

Has anyone else considered getting Claude Max 20x just to increase Fable 5 usage? I'm on max 5x and run out of Fable halfway through the week. Just not sure there is any point if @AnthropicAI aren't going to add it back to subs until later. Hopefully 5.6 is just as good.

How is every single new model Fable level?

I guess i can finally say this now? Everyone you know has been using GPT-5.6 Sol for months

@nickdelgado92 Are.. are we the bad guys

Anthropic is panicking at GPT-5.6

@bublboie I think it's meaningless based on the models used...

@ForwardEditor without the prompt this video is meaningless

Fable vs Haiku Fable is definitely smarter

@pvncher Surprised this is a pro tip

Codex pro tip If you’re generating images and need cutout transparency, ask codex to color map the cutout areas to then replace it with the transparent sections manually after the fact.

@m0hilll @pvncher Image 2 does not

@pvncher last time i tried image gen, it supported transparency by default. does it not anymore?