The adaptive thinking burns more tokens and the results drop. That's a regression no matter how the marketing reads. The real question is whether this is a calibration bug fixable in a point patch or a deeper reward-shaping choice that won't roll back… in any case, not so happy
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Velocity gains enable solo developers to ship ambitious projects faster
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Velocity goes up first and it's the one everyone quotes. The ambitious-feels-doable jump takes longer to show up and it's what actually changes the shape of what a solo dev ships.
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API Access Restrictions Shape Open vs Closed Research Agendas
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Frontier API access shrinking is already shaping research agendas. The labs that publish and open-weight find the bugs the closed ones can't, because no single research setup is broad enough.
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Tool Integration Reduces AI Implementation Anxiety
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The fun part is when the tool call actually lands and you stop pre-flinching at every task!
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Reliable Tool Calls Matter More Than Frontier Model Reasoning
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Grouping and archiving rules barely need a frontier model, they need reliable tool calls. Codex made email fun because the tool-call loop finally works, not because the underlying reasoning jumped.
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Automating Code Generation Over Manual Programming
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I'd rather that than type hundreds of lines of code by hand
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Rosalind Project: Ambitious Drug Discovery Effort and Research Implications
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Thanks Maggie for reaching out. Rosalind seems like a very ambitious and worthwhile effort, and I am very hopeful about what may come out of it. However, drug discovery is a far cry from deep fundamental science research. Also, based on my first hand experience with some of the
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Rosalind Project: Drug Discovery and Fundamental AI Research Challenges
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Thanks Maggie for reaching out. Rosalind seems like a very ambitious and worthwhile effort, and I am very hopeful about what may come out of it. However, drug discovery is a far cry from deep fundamental science research. Also, based on my first hand experience with some of the
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Opus 4.7 Shows Improvement But Still Underperforms 4.6
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Opus 4.7 does seem to have improved, and its adaptive thinking now uses more tokens. However, compared to Opus 4.6, it still performs significantly worse.
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Laser Engraving Technology Creates Detailed Cloth Designs
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Laser engraving creating stunning detail on cloth
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 18 avril 2026
by @MrLaalpotato
#Innovation #EmergingTech #Tech #Technology pic.twitter.com/vxaXLKGhhrLaser engraving creating stunning detail on cloth
by @amazingthings_ #Innovation #EmergingTech #Tech #Technology