"Squat rack (999b7e2): the option sent SQUAT_RACK to amenities_json where no such code exists. Added a dedicated squat_rack AI amenity in workers/findAmenitiesInAIPhotoDescriptions.php (subset of weightlifting, %squat rack% + %power rack%), ran the
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Fixing map visualization issue in software development
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Oops, yes it kinda zooms in to the country and then uses map to show places but that also includes other ones, will fix
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GPT-5.5 Improves Codex Efficiency With Fewer Tokens
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GPT-5.5 uses significantly fewer tokens for the same Codex tasks. In general, you should expect better capability with fewer tokens vs GPT-5.4, not an increase!
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Trustworthy AI software built through incremental development and careful review
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The people actually building software users trust with AI are doing it incrementally with heavy review at every step. That's not the story that gets posted because it sounds like normal engineering with a faster autocomplete.
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DeepSeek Flash vs Pro Pelican Image Generation via OpenRouter
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These pelicans are kind of angry looking! Left is deepseek-v4-flash, right is deepseek-v4-pro – both generated using OpenRouter via my LLM tool
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Newsletter Covers GPT-4.5, ChatGPT Images, Qwen3 and Agentic Patterns
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This week's edition of my email newsletter features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding in crowds, 5 blog posts, 8 links, 3 quotes and a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide https://
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AI Model Upgrade Expected to Improve Bot Comments
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I hope the upgrade to DeepSeek v4 will make the bot comments on here more bearable.
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AI Models Generate Procedural 3D Simulation of Harbor Town Evolution
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I had a range of models "build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 3000 AD" in one prompt.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 24 avril 2026
You can play the full gallery here: https://t.co/FEfKL7uKHV
Or read my write up about GPT-5.5 here: https://t.co/Pn3CCsnlDw pic.twitter.com/r9sTcxfqodI had a range of models "build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 3000 AD" in one prompt. You can play the full gallery here: https://
hg-20f7d1a3ce.netlify.app Or read my write up about GPT-5.5 here: https://
oneusefulthing.org/p/sign-of-the-
future-gpt-55?r=i5f7&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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OpenAI and NVIDIA Partner to Roll Out Codex and GPT-5.5 at Scale
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Amazing to see @nvidia go all-in on Codex! We’ve started going deep with a few companies to roll out Codex and GPT-5.5. Seeing it work this quickly at this scale is exciting. Let’s fire up those Blackwells!