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For the first time, the personalities and approaches of the leading models are diverging in significant ways, magnified by the fact that over longer task horizons these differences in judgement & appr

I also like the cyberpunk and totalitarian visualization modes. There is also an achievement-based unlock system in there, traffic & usage, day & night, and a bunch of other stuff. If it runs slow, yo

This repository contains code for a brutalist city builder game or simulation, made available for anyone who wants to edit or modify it themselves. The project appears to be shared by Ethan Mollick on

Incredibly annoying when Fable has a forbidden thought in the middle of a long-running project and kills it. Apparently this page of references in one of my papers makes Fable wonder about something t

I've been going on about how ChatGPT Work (and Cowork) are missed opportunities for knowledge workers, and to illustrate that take a look at Google's NotebookLM answering the same question as ChatGPT

See also this: https://x.com/emollick/status/2068729258176819253?s=20 A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very 'software-brained' where the

The Labs should launch some easy-to-view comparisons of their new models: show us what a piece of work looks like from Luna xHigh versus Terra Medium versus Sol Low (or similar for Haiku, Sonnet, Opus

Ethan Mollick recommends trying ChatGPT's new voice feature on mobile devices, noting it delivers an impressive user experience. He advises users to test the feature while remaining mindful of potenti

This time it is novel math proofs with a public model (most of the other big math breakthroughs have been with experimental LLMs). Yesterday, we made GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra generally available. Today, we'r

This was a critical early paper on AI & work, showing that entrepreneurs getting advice from GPT-4 had higher profit margins if they were high performing, but did worse if they were already in trouble

When GPT-5 came out, I created a procedural brutalist city builder as a demo (you can see it in the quoted tweet) I used GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex to do the same thing, touching no code. Less than a year..

You can no longer just drop in the smartest model into a harness and expect it to behave similarly to any other model of similar ability levels. This is starting to look a lot more like hiring for a r

Also this graph that shows what an 'AI-pilled' startup looks like, and how uncommon it is even among startups: the answer when founders are asked 'Without GenAI, how many additional employees would yo

create a really interesting game called 'Don't Discuss Goblins' that should have some story elements but mostly be fun and fast moving - the goal is to avoid mentioning goblins, and this should be cha

Ethan Mollick posted a question expressing confusion about AI bot behavior or comments on X/Twitter, questioning whether they had become incoherent or malfunctioning. The post likely discusses observa

Here is an example of a real work use case with Codex and 5.6 Sol I have a new book coming out in October, it has gone through rounds of editing and proofreading. I gave it the full PDF, the AI took 3

Hint for all AI Labs as they branch out from work for programming to general knowledge work: non-coders are not just dumber coders Taking away a bunch of options from your coding app does not make it

It seems like SpaceX/Grok and Meta/Muse have started to keep pace in the near-frontier category while also introducing a new category of cheap, fast & closed specialized coding models. Both were tied

Managers, and their belief in the value of AI & how to use it, determines the value they actually get from AI. Neat paper looking at startups. 🤖Excited to share a new working paper🤖 Firms aren't built

Now that GPT-5.6 is live I can share demos, so I am starting with the dumbest project I had it do during the preview: make a game called 'Don't Discuss Goblins.' From a prompt, it generated ideas and

One thing worth watching is if SpaceX/Tesla/etc will be able to pull off the organizational change needed to take advantage of also being an AI Lab. Anthropic & OpenAI are 'AI native,' but large exist

Pedantic! is a post by Ethan Mollick on X that likely discusses overly strict adherence to rules, technical correctness, or nitpicking in a specific context, possibly relating to AI, technology, or pr

Ethan Mollick suggests that pedantic or nitpicky responses, while sometimes annoying, are not inherently problematic because they can be easily filtered out to identify more substantive feedback. The

Since I am needling every model maker tonight about minor but important issues, one more: Grok 4.5 has no model card. Companies that are trying to compete near the frontier should be releasing model c

Ethan Mollick discusses how AI systems currently lag significantly behind frontier capabilities, with the relative strength index (RSI) as a key metric for determining whether this performance gap wil

The metrics discussion at OpenAI is a little confusing to me. I appreciate the clarification about bad benchmarks, but they spent a lot of money developing a very good benchmark of autonomous model ab

They are the only US manufacturer that is also an AI Lab, which creates a unique opportunity to actually model how you transform a firm with existing workflows, processes, interfaces, and complexity i

This is confusing... Claude Cowork was a purposefully more secure (& slightly weaker) alternative to Code designed so non-coders couldn't cause too much trouble. I got that. But I don't understand wha

This is lovely. I had a fun conversation about vastness with a virtual William Sieghart which led to a beautiful reading of Keat's Endymion, and one about landscapes of memory and led to a reading of

Yes, AI has definitely made the cheating problem (including getting 'help,' not cheating) worse but the problem was bad already Doing homework improved final test grades for 86% of college students st

Added Grok 4.5 to the Harbor Town Playable gallery. Here is it's 'build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 3000 AD, it should look beauti

This appears to be a humorous or satirical X post by Ethan Mollick that uses an extremely long, rambling list of disparate topics (signs, processions, animals, landscapes, disasters, political events,

Didn't even have time to write up thoughts on my early access to the new GPT voice, but it is really good & much closer to the science fiction experience of talking to AI (in part because it is much s

Fable feels very different than Opus. GPT-5.6 feels like a part of the GPT-5 family. I developed a very complex set of heuristics about when to use which. Fable was often “smarter” but was also too se

This entry references a GitHub repository called 'annals-kingdom' shared by Ethan Mollick, likely containing code for an interactive game or simulation project available for experimentation and modifi

Here is the same series of prompts in Grok 4.5 for a twigl shader of a neo-gothic city drowning in a stormy sea. (Had an interesting error initially where it made technically correct code that complet

I found myself switching between Fable and Sol depending on task. Sol for back-and-forth tasks, especially when I had not yet figured out what I needed exactly, Fable for very long tasks where I could

I had Fable build another thing I always wanted, a full procedural fantasy kingdom generator with economics, trade routes, population growth, wars, lineages, and occasional dragons. First, I worked wi

Ethan Mollick shared feedback that Fable (likely an AI tool or platform) had performance issues on mobile devices, and reports that this problem has been addressed and resolved. The post suggests that

I often use Pinokio to download and work with local open source AI tools/models, and one neat thing is that it exposes them seamlessly to Code and Codex. GPT-5.6 actually found my local video models a

I was an early tester of GPT-5.6 Sol. I was asked to not share demos until after launch but it is a very good model. It is of similar ability, but quite different feel, than Fable. Fable wants to go o

Ethan Mollick reports that Mac trackpad issues have been resolved and suggests implementing a system where Fable monitors discussion threads for bug reports to address issues proactively. This appears

My big takeaway is that both Sol & Fable represent jumps over previous models and have opened a large gap with the next-best AIs. People will have preferences for one or the other, but if you doing an

Opus 4.8 https://x.com/emollick/status/2060042738637148470?s=20 I had early access to Opus 4.8. Was impressed by it. Here is Opus 4.8's one shot of 'create a visually interesting shader that can run i

Prompt: ANNALS — a living kingdom in a single file Working title behavior: the app titles itself per seed — 'The Annals of Vaelmere', 'The Annals of Osterholt' — because the central conceit is that yo

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