Oliver Bowman
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Oliver Bowman
@oliverbowman_
Building HerLyfe: Empowering women to run health experiments & discover what actually works! Previously @prolific @bookingcom







Codex sub maybe since they make the model. But the GitHub Copilot one: GitHub doesn’t lose money on things like this. They run a tight ship. If it ever gets too widely adopted to be meaningfully valuable, the terms will change and Amp users will be rugpulled. I would need to be convinced otherwise first.



Quick update to GPT-5.5 / Spud: AI labs are shifting back toward making models smarter during pretraining rather than leaning on reasoning (test-time compute) to boost performance. OpenAI's Spud and Anthropic's Mythos both appear to reflect this trend, getting better answers with fewer tokens and less reliance on chain-of-thought reasoning. Spud is smarter "out of the box" from pretraining, it shouldn't need to burn through long chains of reasoning tokens to reach good answers. Fewer tokens means faster responses and lower cost per query. Even more excited for spud today.


We’re releasing SWE-1.6, our best model in both intelligence & model UX. SWE-1.6 matches our Preview model on SWE-Bench Pro while dramatically improving on various behavioral axes. It’s available today in Windsurf in two modes: free tier (200 tok/s) and fast tier (950 tok/s).











