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Jake Handy
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navigating tech and its unholy masters 💼 r&d at pex.com 👨🏻 dad at home
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Sora 2’s separate feed solves some problems, but the model itself (namely the Cameo feature, which allows you to insert real people into AI videos) is going to create some new, hard-to-solve problems. More:

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Sora 2 and the messy future of AI-generated video
OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet
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Sora 2 today
Suno is teasing its next generative music model (v5). Their short comings have been vocal quality and general fidelity and this sample seems to indicate some solid progress on both. Take a listen:
Poke is a marvel. The bot went from insulting me, to gaslighting me, to haggling with me over setting a price for its services. In the end, I got access to the entire service for free.

Here’s how it went down.

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Getting free access to Poke's AI agent
Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?
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Modern product manager must be moving beyond simple wireframes and into building full, functional prototypes with AI coding tools. No excuses.

Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Using Codex CLI to build a web app
OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet
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Interesting tidbit: ChatGPT’s study mode defaults to a 10th grade level. Does OpenAI consider this the statistical middle in terms of Chat users?
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Here's one chain of reasoning in the policy document about engaging with children.
The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.
In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users:

- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking

Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.
technically not available yet! sometime today
Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...
GPT-5 tomorrow
o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)
DON'T: Ditch #AI tools entirely. You’ll be at a detriment.

DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!

More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Your brain on ChatGPT
Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent
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ChatGPT doesn’t care about you (or its 400 million active users)

how can we mitigate the dangers of this architectural reality?

read: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
ChatGPT can’t pronounce my kid's name
The very human side effects of our non-human tech
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