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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-24

Thibault Sottiaux expects 2026 to be the year enterprises truly prioritize model efficiency and reliability. The reason is that models are moving from assistive tools to critical enterprise infrastructure.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-22

Swyx believes calling simulation the new scaling law is more than marketing. As models increasingly automate ML research and AI engineering, the harder barrier will be simulating humans and their feedback.

Builders2026-08-22

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-20

OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing to strengthen safety protections while continuing to offer Zero Data Retention.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-14

Swyx added batch questioning to `/align-me` to reduce the interaction cost of turn-by-turn confirmation between people and AI. Inspired by Matt Pocock and Thariq Shihipar, the design lets the system explore 2 to 10 steps ahead at a time.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-12

Josh Woodward said Gemini has surpassed 100M active users on iOS and macOS. Power users on macOS submit prompts approximately twice as often as users on other platforms, indicating a more intensive usage pattern on desktop. Apple users are becoming an important source of Gemini's growth.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-11

Swyx tested GPT Luna Max and Claude Fable Ultracode with the same prompt, asking both to recreate Grok Imagine using fal's open models. Fable achieved better visual fidelity, but Luna understood the intention to use open models more accurately and produced a more useful result.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-10

Swyx responded to criticism of AI engineering content quality, emphasizing that the community and industry have grown too large for any individual to grasp completely. A presentation one person considers low-quality may offer crucial inspiration to someone else.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-08

Swyx mentioned that Claude Code's new capabilities are available to try and directly recommended trying them first.

Builders2026-08-08

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-06

Swyx described an initial form of near-term multi-agent AGI as "report back when the task is complete" and proposed a practical approach to modeling dependencies.

Builders2026-08-06

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-05

In today's post, Swyx argued that renewed interest in heavily structured approaches such as knowledge graphs and ontologies comes because "good enough" intelligence has become cheap enough to be almost metered as a utility.

Builders2026-08-05

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-04

Swyx posed a direct question: do we still need CAPTCHA when bots can already pass it easily?

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-02

Karpathy is experimenting with more complex tasks to replace traditional LLM tests such as "draw a pelican riding a bicycle." He gave Opus 5 the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings, a budget of 1 million tokens—approximately $10—and asked it to render the story with Three.js.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-08-01

Swyx still actively uses `/loop` and `/goal` and believes most AI users abandoned them too soon. In the g5.6/c5 period, he considers both capabilities suitable for tasks requiring steerability and autonomy together.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-31

Swyx proposed that if models can be distilled, agent harnesses—the systems governing how agents run, call tools, and control workflows—should be distillable too. This extends distillation beyond model capabilities to the external execution framework.

Builders2026-07-31

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-30

Thibault Sottiaux described this week’s theme as “intelligence too cheap to meter” and previewed another release from the team tomorrow. GPT-5.6 Sol achieved SoTA on ARC-AGI-3, but the key was not retraining the model: it was changing two settings.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-29

Swyx observed a pronounced split in the current hiring market. AI-native individual contributors and player-coaches who can personally execute are in a strong seller’s market. By contrast, purely managerial “Head of X” positions face a substantial cooling.

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-28

Thibault Sottiaux said “vibes are strong” at OpenAI and that he had never seen the company so focused or running so smoothly.

Builders2026-07-28

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-27

Thibault Sottiaux highlighted the change in experience when using ChatGPT Work on mobile, saying it is now available in the ChatGPT app and that mobile use will be a game changer.

Builders2026-07-27

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-26

Josh Woodward demonstrated a practical Gemini Spark use case: users can drop a school-calendar PDF into Gemini and ask it to add all “No School” dates to Google Calendar. The example emphasizes Gemini completing a concrete cross-application task rather than merely serving as a chat interface.

Builders2026-07-26

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-25

Swyx said he has been dogfooding an agentic GitHub clone for the past month and that it has become quite useful.

Builders2026-07-25