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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-24

Thibault Sottiaux previewed forthcoming OpenAI Codex developments, saying he was “incredibly excited” about what was taking shape. He disclosed no specific release, product form, or schedule, saying only that “tomorrow” would have strong Codex vibes.

Builders2026-07-24

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-23

Andrej Karpathy shared a practical pattern for collaborating with LLMs: supplying context through long, rambling voice input. Sometimes users do not feel like typing, but the model needs more “bits” to understand their goal; switching to `/voice` and talking for 10 minutes can be effective.

Builders2026-07-23

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-22

Swyx focused on an analysis of trajectory similarity in the RLM paper, looking beyond individual benchmark scores to the gray area between training and evaluation where a model may appear not to have cheated yet be very close to the test distribution.

Builders2026-07-22

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-21

Thibault Sottiaux continued collecting ChatGPT Work use cases, this time shifting from productivity to more personal effects.

Builders2026-07-21

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-20

Thibault Sottiaux shared a real task he dictated directly to ChatGPT Work: go through Twitter DMs and compile every message mentioning early-access ChatGPT Work beta into a spreadsheet. He requested names, DM links, and message content, with line breaks removed so each message fit in one cell.

Builders2026-07-20

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-19

Swyx continued focusing on AEO, or AI Engine Optimization. He argued that anyone not having Codex, Claude, Gemini, or Devin automatically research SEO / AEO improvements weekly is missing an opportunity that remains “free,” should be commoditized, and is still underused.

Builders2026-07-19

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-16

Swyx previewed an in-person demo event for SF Personal AI engineers, focused on personal agents, at the new media lab this Thursday evening. He specifically mentioned Shlok attending, calling him one of the best builder-writers he had met this year.

Builders2026-07-16

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-15

Swyx shared how he currently divides work among models on “big projects”: Sol Ultra plans, Fable 5 critiques, Sonnet 5, Terra Ultra, and SWE 1.7 handle ultracode or slop-cannon work, and Devin Review uses Kakuna for review.

Builders2026-07-15

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-14

Thibault Sottiaux addressed GPT-5.6 Sol usage concerns among Codex and ChatGPT Work users. He explicitly denied any “nerf,” saying OpenAI had optimized inference and passed the savings to all GPT-5.6 Sol subscriptions, with this alone expected to provide approximately 10% more usage.

Builders2026-07-14

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-05

He publicly asked users about Codex’s shortcomings: “What surprises you that Codex still does badly, and that we should have gotten right long ago?” Direct feedback collection by a core team member usually means prioritization for the next iteration, making this a good time for readers to submit…

Builders2026-07-05

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-04

Swyx posted a series of previews from the AI Engineer conference, inviting attendees to AIE Expo at 12:30 for a “flash surprise,” followed by a live Latent Space podcast with chip company Etched on Expo Stage 2.

Builders2026-07-04

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-07-03

Swyx shared updates from the ongoing AI Engineer conference. He said he schedules double-length track keynotes only when confident both speaker and content deserve it; today Chris Manning and abshkbh each gave double sessions.

Builders2026-07-03

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-24

Swyx raised a calculation few people have worked through: viewed as an integrated “NeoCloud + NeoLab” operation, OpenAI has already recouped roughly half of its investment in Cursor through compute sales contracts. The other half would be fully paid for if Composer 3 works out.

Builders2026-06-24

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-23

While choosing an insurer for his newly established New Media Lab, the creative studio space housing swyx inc, swyx unexpectedly found that Corgi had an extraordinarily strong reputation among creators.

Builders2026-06-23

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-19

The team quietly performed a double reset: it reset current usage limits and added an extra reset to each user’s bank, available whenever they choose to trigger it.

Builders2026-06-19

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-16

He observed that few people outside Anthropic are using ultracode. The tool burns tokens at an alarming rate, but its power depends on setting up a repository so subagents can fan out fully in parallel.

Builders2026-06-16

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-13

Swyx proposed a concept called Loopcraft: he believes the central game of the next century is who can stack loops most effectively.

Builders2026-06-13

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-12

Levie published detailed results from the Box AI Complex Work Eval, saying Fable represents a major leap in both coding and complex knowledge work. The evaluation had a Box AI Agent using Fable tackle a set of real-world enterprise document challenges, then compared its scores with Opus 4.8.

Builders2026-06-12

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-11

Karpathy gave unusually high praise to the release of Claude Fable 5. He noted that Fable 5 and Mythos share the same underlying model, with safety guardrails added, and that it is broadly SOTA across benchmarks by a clear margin.

Builders2026-06-11

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Builders’ Picks | 2026-06-04

The Thinking Levels experience that users have long complained about is finally rolling out across Gemini platforms. Josh announced that the Gemini App on web, iOS, and Android now lets users choose reasoning intensity themselves.

Builders2026-06-04