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In 1969, the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described five stages of grief. They start with denial and end with acceptance. Companies later turned them into…
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OpenAI Does Not Trust Its Own Models, and Rightly So
OpenAI does not trust its own models, and after the last few weeks I think it is right. On September 28 it cancelled the…
Read postSomething Is Wrong at OpenAI
Something is wrong at OpenAI. Each model it has released since GPT-5.5 is smarter on paper and worse to work with, and GPT-6.1 Sol…
Read postAnyone Can Build an App Now, but Who Is Going to Pay for It?
With Claude Code or Cursor, a developer can build a booking app for hair salons over a weekend. It can have online booking, reminder…
Read postCodex Users Are Fleeing to Claude Code
Codex users are leaving for Claude Code. OpenAI cut the Pro 200 plan from 20x to 10x the Plus allowance at DevDay on September…
Read postHow to Make Videos with Claude Code
Claude Code can't generate video directly. It isn't a video model like Veo or Sora. It writes text and code. You can still make…
Read postOpenAI Is Paying Me to Move My Business to Anthropic
Three months ago, OpenAI was my daily driver, using Codex with GPT-5.5 and being productive like never before. Anthropic already had Fable but it…
Read postOpenAI Codex Is Retiring the Last Model that Behaves Like an Assistant
I opened Codex CLI today and it showed me this notice: "GPT-5.5 retires on October 14, 2026. Switch to GPT-5.6 Sol to continue working…
Read postChatGPT Plus and Pro Will Get Ads in 2027
ChatGPT Plus and Pro will get ads, and my guess is that it starts in 2027. OpenAIs own ad principles from January state that…
Read postThe Economic Incentives Behind the Push to Pause AI
On September 12, Dario Amodei published an essay called We Must Pace the Frontier, which says the AI industry should slow down how fast…
Read postThe Cost of AI Is Now My Main Blocker
My main blocker right now is the cost of AI. I use AI for everything I do and I am very productive with it.…
Read postWhy I Am Bullish on ChatGPT Ads
I have done SEO for more than twenty years, since Google was the new search engine, and I ran Google Ads campaigns back then…
Read postWe Urgently Need a New Major Search Engine
Google is an answer engine now. The search box is still there, but the product is built to hand you an answer, and searching…
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