A Middle Class Dude™

🤖 All about AI | ⚙️ Exploring how automation and AI tools are changing the way we work | 💡 Sharing what I learn along the way

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America.

This will be the first of many.

[A Middle Class Dude™ @DudeClassMiddle]

Not a fan of OpenAI's Dots. I want an AI that does the work and gets out of the way, not a bubbly avatar running in the background all the time. And $500 a month for the top tier is hard to justify for most of us.

#OpenAI #AI #Dots #AIAgents

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate (for now)

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Sorry for any confusion! Cloud sessions run on your Pro or Max plan, like the rest of Claude Code. This promo is an optional one-time credit that your cloud sessions spend first, before falling back onto your normal plan usage.

We hope you enjoy the credits!

[BridgeMind @bridgemindai]

OPUS 5.5 BENCHMARKS JUST DROPPED.

It beats Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra across the board.

Agentic coding, knowledge work, reasoning, computer use, visual recognition. Opus 5.5 leads every single one.

At half the price of Fable 5.1.

Anthropic finally shipped the model we have been begging for. Smart enough to lead the frontier and affordable enough to actually use.

Testing it now.

[Ishu Agrawal @ishuagra02]

Anthropic is once again timing its next release to be on the same day as OpenAI’s.

We’ll be getting both Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on Tuesday. It’s going to be a big week.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

52% chance Astra 6.1+ is released by the end of October.

https://t.co/Z6v610IHiC

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

Big things are coming👀

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Hi Astra users. A reset and a quick update on quality issues that have been posted around.

Working with some of you, we have found and fixed the following issues:
- Some skills written for previous models were triggering too often or preventing the model from checking its work.
- An opt-in context management experiment that could cause early stops or replies to older messages. We've disabled it. Our rough estimate is that 4-5k users were affected by this experiment.
- We've also removed some badly configured engines that resulted in a measured quality degradation for a long tail of traffic flowing through them.

We’ve also made some more minor improvements and things should feel significantly better across the board. More consistent follow-through, better tracking of your latest message, and better checks on the work as it’s going through the motions.

The examples posted and all the users who worked directly with us were incredibly useful in helping fix things quickly. Always grateful for this incredible community.

And of course, a reset is also landing by midnight today.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

GPT-Live-1 is now available in the API.

Bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

AI isn’t going to wipe out humans. But AI doomers have a shot at hamstringing the most incredible advancement for humanity since the steam engine. We can’t let that happen.

[A Middle Class Dude™ @DudeClassMiddle]

@AlexFinn One task → one PR makes this manageable. I’d have the PM define acceptance criteria before coding starts, then check the result against them. Otherwise you risk a very organized backlog of almost-done work.

[A Middle Class Dude™ @DudeClassMiddle]

@AlexFinn The possibility of small teams taking chances on weird, niche games is what excites me here. Give me one brilliant mechanic that makes me lose track of time. Would love to see your studio build in public.

[A Middle Class Dude™ @DudeClassMiddle]

@AlexFinn Somewhere an AI agent is waiting for approval while its boss finishes a dungeon. We’ve recreated middle management in Azeroth 😂

[A Middle Class Dude™ @DudeClassMiddle]

@AlexFinn The custom shortcuts caught my attention. Removing one small annoyance you hit dozens of times a day is a pretty compelling reason to make your computer your own.

[A Middle Class Dude™ @DudeClassMiddle]

@AlexFinn Would love a side-by-side of the same task with your old approach versus these changes. Which adjustment made the biggest difference in how much work you had to redo?

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

ChatGPT 6 Astra is AGI, but only if you use it the right way

I've used Astra for dozens of hours now. To get the most out of it, you need to master these things:

• Computer Use
• Thinking levels
• Prompting techniques

In this video I cover them all plus 4 more hacks:

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 $xrp

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Because we are beyond happy to have Astra rolled out today ahead of schedule and you have been super patient with us (not really, but it’s ok!)… we will do the full banked reset today too for all Plus, Pro and Business users. Lands end of day.

Happy Astra day and enjoy a phenomenal weekend.

PS: If you create the account or upgrade before 8pm PT you will get it too. Still time!

[Sam Altman @sama]

first, sorry for the messy rollout.

second, when we screw up, we try to make it right.

third, we should be able to begin broad rollout to API customers and chatgpt subscribers in the near future. as usual we will start with pro subscribers.