Make Love Not War

Two rival frontier models, both at maximum reasoning, in one loop that ships unattended for days. It runs $500–$1,000 a day — and measured against what it delivers, that's cheap.

Sol Ships: GPT-5.6 in Your Pro Plan, at Half Fable's Price

The Sol/Terra/Luna preview is now real. GPT-5.6 shipped July 9 — and the story isn't the benchmarks. It's that Sol is bundled into ChatGPT Pro at half of Claude Fable 5's token price, plus one coding benchmark OpenAI quietly skipped.

J-Space: The Silent Workspace Inside Claude

Anthropic found a small, privileged workspace inside Claude — internal patterns, readable with a new Jacobian 'J-lens', holding concepts the model reasons with but never writes down. Not a consciousness claim. Maybe something more useful: a window into the thoughts a model doesn't print.

Sol, Terra, Luna: OpenAI Splits GPT-5.6 Into Three

OpenAI isn't shipping GPT-5.6 as one model. It's shipping a ladder — Sol, Terra, Luna — that turns the frontier into a pricing decision. Public launch Thursday. Here's how to read the three tiers and where each one actually earns its cost.

Advisor and Executor: Using Fable 5 Without the Fable 5 Bill

Anthropic's ClaudeDevs shared the pattern they lean on with Fable 5: don't make the frontier model do the work — make it the advisor. A cheaper executor runs the loop and calls up to Fable 5 only at the decisions that matter. Most tokens bill at the cheap rate; judgment stays near the top.

GPT-Live: OpenAI Bets the Interface Is Voice

OpenAI's GPT-Live rolls out in ChatGPT today: full-duplex voice models that listen and speak at the same time, and quietly hand the hard questions to a frontier model in the background. The interface just stopped being a prompt box.

The Making of Claude Code

Anthropic published the oral history of Claude Code — from a safety-research side project nicknamed clide to the tool that changed how Silicon Valley writes software. The interesting part isn't the launch. It's the four quiet years before it, and the shrug it got after.

Longevity — Good Company

One of the biggest longevity levers isn't worn, swallowed, or tracked — it's the company you keep. The science is surprisingly blunt.

Samurai

The recharge weekend, concluded — at a zen-samurai finca outside Santa Fe de Antioquia. Batteries full, back to the protocol. Plus the seven virtues of Bushido, read as a biohacker.

The Recharge Protocol

The one lever most people skip isn't another input — it's recovery. Why I made weekend downtime a deliberate protocol, plus the short science on readiness and rest.

Yoga: The Downshift

The piece of the protocol I always skip is recovery — so I finally added it. Yoga, twice a week, at home, with a yogina from Venezuela. Here's why the least clinical thing I do is pure biohacking.

The Third Leash

Fable 5 is back, but it's not in my Max plan — using it spends separate credits. So I made one folder run Claude Code on a different account and the Fable model, interactive and headless. The shim, the token, and why the headless loop is the hard part.

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The Loop Files Its Own Work

Last time I proved a loop could finish a batch once, with me still in the room. This time it caught its own unfinished work mid-run, filed the ticket, shipped it, and hardened its own machine on the way. Here's the whole system, drawn from zero, and the honest ledger of where it still needed me.

Biohacking

The Wearable That Disappears

A few months with the Oura ring, and the honest verdict isn't a number — it's that I still wear the thing. I've abandoned every watch I ever bought; this is the first tracker small enough that I stopped noticing it. Plus why the smaller new Oura 5 makes the point louder.

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Fable 5 Comes Off the Leash

Anthropic's most capable widely released model was frozen by a US export-control order three days after launch. Eighteen days later the controls came off — and the reason it came back says more than the reason it left. The whole story, in one place.

Biohacking

The Bar Doesn't Lie: 25% Stronger in Two Weeks on Carbs

Two weeks after carbs came back, nearly every bar in the gym went up about 25%. Here's the fourth-set 100 kg bench on video — and the honest science of why fuel, not willpower, moved the numbers.

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You Can't Screenshot Your Way to a Pixel-Perfect UI

Hand an agent a screenshot and ask for a pixel-perfect frontend with no human review, and you get a confident guess. The fix isn't a smarter model — it's turning “respect the design” from a vibe into a contract a machine can check.

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Proof of Loop

This whole series I've been designing a harness that would let an agent finish work unattended. I finally pointed it at a real batch and walked most of the way out of the room. Eleven tickets, two repos, six hours, zero production incidents — and an honest count of every time it still needed me.

Craft

WhatsApp Grows Up

Three billion users, no ads, famously free — and now a $2.99 paint job, a username land-grab, and a premium tier named after the very mod it spent a decade banning. The simplest app on your phone just found the cash register.

Biohacking

Split the Shot

Same testosterone, same weekly dose — just twice a week instead of once. You lose nothing. You trade one extra needle a week for a flatter curve.

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The Agent Without a Face

There are two ways to use a coding agent: sit in its terminal, or take its face off and drive the engine from your own code. If you're building anything around agents, the second mode is the whole game — and it's full of traps nobody warns you about.

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Amnesia as a Feature

Ralph is a five-line bash loop that forgets everything every iteration — and the amnesia is the whole point. It's also wrapped in more hype than almost anything in AI. Here's what's real, what isn't, and why Anthropic's official plugin gets it backwards.

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Stop Babysitting the Babysitter

I built a gate that wouldn't let Claude fake “done.” It worked — and then I spent a month babysitting the gate. The native trio that replaces the whole rig was shipping the entire time, and the hard part was never the loop.

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Off the Leash

/loop dies the moment you close your laptop, and I argued that leash was a safety feature. /schedule cuts it: your code keeps shipping on Anthropic's cloud while your machine sleeps — and the thing that made the loop safe is gone.