Patrick @ ProductRoot.io

@jacalulu @TEDTalks @bgurley When @jacalulu stamps their seal of approval on something, it goes STRAIGHT to the car playlist - no questions asked 🚗

Just listened to the @TEDTalks from @bgurley on "How to build a career you actually love." Loved these three thoughts: 1) Champion curiosity - especially in kids 2) Follow your fascination - passion alone can be passive 3) Use AI to accelerate learning, not replace it

@rileybrown Most stable in weeks 😀

Back to Codex.

Google just flipped the script 🔄 We used to search for answers. Now answers search for us. With Spark & Search Agents, the proactive era isn't coming - it's already knocking on your door. 🚪

BREAKING 🔥: US government directed Anthropic to ban access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 to non US citizens and organisations. Presumably, as these models are still vulnerable to jailbreaks. According to Anthropic, no universal jailbreak has been found so far, only specific ones, which yet may still pose some risks. That’s new 👀

@techdevnotes Screen sharing + voice is dangerously close to turning Grok into the coworker who actually knows where the setting is 😂

Grok iOS App now supports Screen Sharing in Grok Voice

@simpsoka Is green supposed to be calming, or am I missing something? 🙃 P.S. is it your favorite color Kath @simpsoka ?

Heads up I changed my profile photo. Don’t forget me.

@simpsoka Performance is the feature users notice when it’s missing 😅. A 10× speedup often beats 10 new buttons - people change their behavior when waiting stops being part of the workflow.

Performance is a feature

developers.google.com/search/blog/20… Google introduce a new feature in Search Console that provides information about Generative AI performance

@thsottiaux Simple versioning is great. The real flex is when 5.6 is both smarter and uses fewer tokens - like upgrading your car and somehow getting better mileage 😄

When we go from GPT-5.0 -> GPT-5.1 -> ... -> GPT-5.5, the number incrementing goes with improvements in capabilities and token efficiency (which translates to speed gains). With GPT-5.5 our best model yet. A simple strategy that we would like to continue.

There's no better UX in CLI than what Grok Build presents 😍

Testing time 😍🤩 Gemini Spark released in US to Ultra Plan subscribers 🚀

@shikhr_ There won’t be 4.9 as everyone are literally avoiding 9 in versioning xD Alternatives are: Opus X, Opus Millenium or maybe just Opus 4.11 😂

After Opus 4.9 Anthropic has no choice but to release Opus 5

@jacalulu 👀🤔

Feeling inspired. Tomorrow is going to be fun.

oh my god they nerfed Opus 4.8, it was so much better 2 weeks ago

@simpsoka Nothing resets a NYC speedrun like a 5-minute convo about paint instead of product roadmaps 😄 Artist siblings are basically emotional tech support 😅

Fastest trip to NYC but luckily got to see my artist sister and talk about non tech things for a split second. 🎨❤️

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a MONSTER We've been testing for about a week @every and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check: - Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works. HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results. - Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context. HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high. - Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark. - Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic. THE BAD: These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude. Anthropic is back baby! Read the rest on @every: every.to/vibe-check/opu…

@trq212 “Sharper judgment” + “works independently longer” is either the future of productivity or the start of every sci‑fi movie 😅 The workflow angle is the most interesting part though 😀

I think you’ll really like Opus 4.8 It’s as smart as its benchmarks show but expresses and utilizes that intelligence in a warm and collaborative way. Workflows are a great way to utilize it- I’m hooked. Article on that soon.

Opus 4.8 just dropped and it's already playing catch-up to GPT-5.5 on Terminal Bench 😅 Meanwhile OpenAI is casually loading GPT-5.6 in the chamber. The AI race isn't a marathon anymore - it's a speed run and someone forgot to tell Anthropic 💀

When simple “High” is no longer enough 😅

@ChrisUniverse Well said!

Grok Build needs a mobile app ASAP!