Josh

that’s cool! meanwhile gpt-5.6 will be available through july 19… and july 20… and beyond. we’d rather not turn model availability into a guessing game. oh, and it’s also absurdly token efficient. better performance at 36% the cost 😮‍💨 go have fun building. or don’t. it’s the weekend. touch grass instead. we’ll be here when you’re ready!

I do wish Rust/Cargo builds would use up an order of magnitude less disk space. I was unable to contribute on the Windows side of React Native WebView because its builds used up 8 GB, filling up my 256 GB work laptop. I can't imagine needing 300 GB spare to contribute to Zed!

What saddens me most about AI is seeing talented developers ship products far below the quality bar they set before agentic engineering became a thing. People excuse low quality because it took little effort. Don’t. Use AI to raise the bar.

The OpenTrawl MacOS app is coming together. Search all your data locally, and hook up your AI so it knows who you *really* are. (mcp and CLI). Private by design: nothing leaves your machine unless you want it to. OpenSource (MIT). Follow this account to stay updated!

GPT-5.6-Sol-Ultra is so good at maths that it created Minecraft clone in Lean (yes that Lean)

railway's SEO team must have some incredible stories.

Dutch intelligence agencies got caught training AI on citizen data they weren't supposed to have. the CTIVD, the Netherlands' official intelligence oversight body, published a report finding that AIVD and MIVD staff accessed and retained massive bulk datasets in ways that violate Dutch law. names. phone numbers. location data. social media. communication content. millions of entries. some from government sources. some commercially purchased. some stolen by criminals and bought on the dark web. and then Bits of Freedom, the Dutch digital rights organization, flagged something buried in the report: the agencies appear to be training their own AI models on this data. this is not the first time. in 2020, the same watchdog found the same agencies had retained citizen data far beyond legal limits. after complaints, they were ordered to delete it. six years later: same report. same finding. same agencies. but now with AI in the loop. the data that was illegally retained is now reportedly being used to train models that will make future surveillance faster, more accurate, and more autonomous. you cannot opt out. Unlike commercial AI companies, there is no settings menu. no privacy center. no right to delete that you can actually exercise. Bits of Freedom put it directly: "They seem to be buying data from criminal data breaches. aren't they supposed to be protecting us from those?"

I burnt almost 50% of my Weekly usage in 8h Never felt more alive

That's about as many sessions as my Mac Studio can take.

The GPT 5.6 Sol efficiency updates for usage today seemed to help a lot Usage is moving much slower than it was yesterday, especially when mixed with just using lower reasoning