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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.

Builders2026-07-30

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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.

Builders2026-07-29

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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

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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