Also 2x limits. I think this is to front-run the upcoming Sonnet and DeepSeek model releases.

"To celebrate the launch of the Codex app, we doubled all rate limits for paid plans for 2 months! And added access for free/go." https://x.com/sama/status/2018437537103269909

I like to hate on Sam Altman, but this a low effort hit piece. OpenAI has a brilliant team lead by one of the best in the field [1]. The ones who left are all but one not technical people and happened months ago. And the one who left wanted to focus scarce compute on RL, which is a good gamble but not necessarily the right move.

Just yesterday from an internal email "Jakub moreso than Ilya has been making the research breakthroughs that are driving things forward, to the point that Sam promoted Jakub, and put him charge of the major model research directions." https://x.com/trajektoriePL/status/2018242446577086589

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Pachocki

FWIW, OpenAI Codex is open source and they help other open source projects like OpenCode to integrate their accounts (not just expensive API), unlike Anthropic who blocked it last month and force people to use their closed source CLI.

Gemini CLI is open source too, though I think the consensus is it's a distant third behind Claude Code and Codex

The classic commoditize your complements.

I think "representable" is misleading. Nice post, though.

Multiple teachers in my family report there is an attention crisis. And worse, the kids are addicted to their screens and even show signs of withdrawal in class. One case required professional intervention and the parents didn't seem bothered about it.

Just because the kids aren’t paying attention to the teachers, doesn’t mean they are having problem focusing. They are probably learning more from their screens, than from the teachers. When the only book in town was the bible and the only guy who had it was the priest, it made sense to have him front and center giving out all the answers. This is not the reality anymore and now kids can probably learn better by themselves. You should look into the work of Sugata Mitra.

But there are growing concerns with GTA VI due to almost complete change of the leadership at Rockstar (Dan Houser, producers, writers). I wouldn't bet money on VI being as big of a hit as V or even IV.

Yeah, most services will be behind a CDN or firewall service, anyway.

Sadly the EU leadership is a bunch of professional bureaucrats living in a comfy bubble completely disconnected with the people or reality.

As opposed to.. the harsh realities of the Bay Area tech scene?

I'm not happy with the upcoming techno-feudalism, but a bunch of (mostly) un-elected lawyers and economists have no clue on how to build cloud.

And it's not that they want to help EU citizens, they just want to be techno-feudal lords themselves. Or worse, more like CCP.

> if vibe coding is the process of producing software without much understanding of what is going on (which has a place, and democratizes software production, so it is totally ok with me)

Strongly disagree. This is a huge waste of currently scarce compute/energy both in generating that broken slop and in running it. It's the main driver for the shortages. And it's getting worse.

I would hate a future without personal computing.