23 April 2026

22 links · Thursday

Introducing GPT-5.5

Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.

Highlights from Git 2.54

The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

World Models will push the frontier for LLMs

Large Language Models are trained using the next-token prediction objective. This means that the vocabulary distribution of the model needs to be close to th...

Agents and the Era of Overproduction

It seems somewhat fitting that now, March 11, 2026, almost three years ago to the day that OpenAI’s GPT-4 was released (and almost three years after I asked GPT-4 my first recorded questionI distinctly remember asking GPT3.5 to create a song about something in…

Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment

In this article, I propose a definition of software slop based on human attention (slop = code that hasn't been reviewed or verified) and sketch out a way to estimate how "sloppy" a piece of software is. I put it to the test with Slop-O-Meter, an experiment…

The price of software is going to zero

The price of software is going to zero. AI assisted programming makes it much faster and cheaper to build software. On the scale of the software market this means that most of what is currently consumer paid software will become free software. Prior to AI only…

Syncing Time Over the Internet

When you buy a brand new computer—let's say you bought a MacBook—and you open it for the first time, it is not yet connected to any internet. As such, it shows the wrong time. But the moment you connect it to your Wi-Fi for the first time, automatically, it so…

I'm Using Claude Code for Everything Else But Coding

Nineteen days after cancelling Claude Max, my pattern has settled. Codex with GPT-5.4 on xHigh took the coding seat. Claude Code with Opus 4.7 on xHigh took every other seat at the desk.