the system literally promised me a powerful new image engine to try. i am not going to pay money to that unethical company but you are welcome to try my tall tandem w panniers example and post the output here
GENERATIVE AI
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ChatGPT’s New Image Engine Shows Limited Understanding Capabilities
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There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some some smart aleck on X sent me an example of the new system trying to label a bike
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Pro and Ultra Subscriptions Get Higher Usage Limits
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we haven’t changed any of the limits besides to give pro and ultra subs higher limits
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Alibaba’s Shipping Speed and Qwen3.6 27B Dense Model Performance
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Alibabas shipping-speed is insane. Qwen3.6 27b dense looks impressive tho
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LLM Choice Significantly Impacts GPT-Imagegen-2 Output Quality
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This wasn't the case with previous image generators, but the LLM you select has a huge effect on GPT-imagegen-2 output. GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro will produce much better images, especially for complex things. This is, of course, not intuitive or explained anywhere.
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Deep Think vs Deep Research: Understanding Advanced AI Models
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Deep think != Deep Research, the latter uses flash and pro
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MiniMax AI Models Promotion: Free Music and Discounted TTS
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AI/ML API is rolling out a major promotion in collaboration with MiniMax, bringing their latest models to the forefront of the Playground – and they reached out to me to tell all of you 🙂
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 22 avril 2026
For the next 7 days:
• MiniMax Music → Free access
• Text-to-Speech → 50% off
• Video… https://t.co/ZmyT4XJrSQAI/ML API is rolling out a major promotion in collaboration with MiniMax, bringing their latest models to the forefront of the Playground – and they reached out to me to tell all of you 🙂 For the next 7 days:
• MiniMax Music → Free access
• Text-to-Speech → 50% off
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AI Models Have Preferred Names: Marcus Chen, Aldric, Kira, Mara Vance
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All of the AI models have preferred names. If you asked Claude 4.5 for a software developer, you are going to get Marcus Chen. Wizards are mostly named Aldric. Space pilots are Kira from Claude, Mara Vance from GPT-5.2. I guess LinkedIn Bros are Kai now. https://
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OpenAI Image Generator Routing Issue Under Investigation
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Someone from OAI has reached out to me and it seems like this image was *NOT* generated with Image 2, but it was routed to a different image generator due to "decision boundary issue." They are looking into this now.
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Codex Automation Routing: Untapped Leverage in Scheduled Computer Use
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You are using Codex wrong.
— CHOI (@arrakis_ai) 22 avril 2026
Everyone is talking about its coding benchmarks. Nobody is talking about its automation routing. It is severely undervalued.
If you aren't using the scheduled "Computer Use" capability, you are leaving massive leverage on the table.
By tying Codex to… pic.twitter.com/RmovahiNljYou are using Codex wrong. Everyone is talking about its coding benchmarks. Nobody is talking about its automation routing. It is severely undervalued. If you aren't using the scheduled "Computer Use" capability, you are leaving massive leverage on the table. By tying Codex to