Richard Penny

Entrepreneur. Founder of Walking With Robots, an AI studio. Love craft beer, NFL & my Alfa Romeo.

[Richard Penny @HeraldIslander]

@thsottiaux my weekly Codex limit ran out 3d2h before my reset 🙏 any goodwill reset on the horizon?

tracking at https://t.co/gGd1gLAciP

[Richard Penny @HeraldIslander]

This

[Riley Brown @rileybrown]

@petergyang the software only apps yes.
network effects have value.

[dnap @dnapway]

Sam Altman reveals his favorite Naval quote:

"Naval Ravikant used to say this thing that I loved, which is, if you had a fast-forward button on a remote for your life, your life would be over."

"The boring parts, the bad parts, they're still much better than no experience. It’s all part of the interestingness and the kind of emotional depth and range. And I don’t know, I find it fairly easy to be grateful for the bad days."

[Victor E. Nunez @victornunez]

today we launch the product i’ve been most excited about since joining @OpenAI.

tony stark isn’t texting jarvis.

talk to ChatGPT. steer Codex. stay in flow.

welcome to the world of speaking things into existence.

[Richard Penny @HeraldIslander]

We run a team of specialist AI "agents" in Codex. Has completely changed how we work.

Then their long-running threads became huge (40+GB!). The Mac got slow, then everything broke.

Fix was obvious but a good reminder that there's still a limit to the "never-ending thread"

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

So let me get this straight....

1. Agents are about to outnumber humans on the internet, so most of the traffic, transactions, and conversations online will soon be machines talking to other machines while we sleep.

2. Superintelligence exists now, and for $20/mo you pretty much get it all.

3. Cloud agents allow you to run a business 24/7 and from literally a phone while you're waiting to order a latte.

4. Voice AI is wide open. This industry has barely changed since the 90s. Infinite opportunities. Voice AI is finally getting good enough.

5. Mobile apps are interesting again for the first time in 10 years, because an AI-first app that thinks and acts on its own is a different species than the passive ones in the store today. There are kids doing $100k/MRR.

6. It's the golden age of open source. The models you download off Hugging Face for free and own forever are landing within months of the ones behind paywalls, so the smartest thing on earth can't be throttled, priced up, or shut off by a company having a bad quarter.

7. The keyboard is on its way out. We spent 40 years learning to type fast, and it's about to feel like handwriting, because soon you just talk and the computer goes and does it.

8. Every company is about to hire agents with their own logins, their own inboxes, their own track records, and a shadow economy is forming where agents pay, hire, and vouch for other agents.

9. Software stopped being something you buy and became something you rent by the hour. The whole industry is repricing from $50 a seat to thousands per outcome. Tons of opportunity.

10. Robots are about to have the moment software agents just had. The intelligence got solved. Now it's dropping into machines with arms and legs, and the people who can wire AI into hardware are about to be the most fought-over hires on earth.

11. The 10-person startup can now out-ship the 500-person company, and everyone can feel it happening.

12. Every white-collar task is getting a "do it for me" button, and most people haven't pressed it yet.

13. Data you've been sitting on for years is suddenly worth something, because now an agent can actually use it.

14. Language stopped being a barrier. Real-time translation that actually works means the next huge consumer app might get built for a market you can't even read, by someone you'll never meet.

15. Every SOP is turning into a product. The way a business does one thing, written down as a markdown file an agent can run, is now something you can sell. Knowledge that used to live in someone's head became downloadable.

16. The moat moved from what you know to how well your business is written down. The company an agent can actually run wins, so being legible beats being big.

17. Since agents will get scammed by other agents, a whole trust layer has to get built. The Yelp for agents. The escrow for machines. Wide open.

18. You keep the whole thing now. A business that needed 50 people to hit $10M needs 3 and some agents, so instead of splitting it 200 ways with investors, it's just yours.

19. Search engines minted a generation of millionaires and billionaires. LLM search is about to do it all over again. Billions of eyeballs are moving off Google and onto ChatGPT, so being the answer inside the models is the new front page.

20. The margins are stupid. You charge someone what they'd pay a human, and it costs you a few bucks in tokens. That gap used to go to payroll. Now it goes to you.

Any one of these would DEFINE a decade on its own.

We got ALL of them at once, stacked on top of each other in the same 18 months.

It's a magical time to be building.

You don't need to overthink it.

Build.

[edwin @edwin1]

@Flo_oskar codex slapping right now for me, no complaints at all

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

The most dangerous thing you can do right now is NOT use the latest AI tools. Period.

Every day a new company is laying off thousands of people who don't know how to use the most modern AI tools

If I were in the 9-5 world right now, this is every step I'd take:

1. Download Codex and build your first app. Learn how to implement a front end and database (I’d use nextJS and Convex). AI can teach you all of this

2. Download Hermes agent. Tell the agent about your entire life. Career, goals, and ambitions. Ask it what workflows it can implement to get you closer to those goals. This is called reverse prompting.

3. Build your own Mission Control with Hermes agent. This is your own custom software that automates every part of your life. Anytime you do a task on your todo list manually, give it to Hermes and figure out how you can automate it in your Mission Control

4. Get the Claude Max plan. Feed Fable 5 Max your hardest problems. Make sure you hit the rate limit on it EVERY single week

5. Constantly look at your limits in all your AI plans. If you're ever not above 50% on your limits, get angry that you're not burning enough tokens.

6. Learn how to use Claude Code side by side with Codex. Learn both their strengths. Fable 5 for planning, ChatGPT 5.6 sol medium for execution. These are the only 2 coding tools that matter. Master these and you're golden

7. Start creating content and building a platform. Resumes no longer matter. Companies dont look at them anymore. They check your platform. What you talk about, what you’re passionate about, how you educate others, who follows you. This matters 100x more than anything else when getting hired right now.

If you do these 7 things you are in excellent position to not only be safe in your career, but also dominate those that don't pick up these skills.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

not surprising that @OpenAI is firing on all cylinders right now, and it’s an unbelievably interesting story

- they launched GPT-5 summer of 2025 and positioned it as a pair programmer. we wrote at the time @every that they completely missed the new agentic coding that was starting to happen inside of Claude Code. they bet on agentic coding in the browser / vms and vibe coding in ChatGPT but it was too early

- a small team broke off and began working on a separate Codex model line and product. didn’t have to serve the gigantic customer base of ChatGPT, and by November / December of 2025 with 5.3 it was clear they were starting to make something good and the progress was fast

- Codex Desktop app launched in Feb and was just clearly superior. there’s a weird late comer advantage sometimes in AI because you get to skip to what works instead of your product having the scars of new capability improvements being bolted on every 3 months

- Codex started getting popular it was clear it was a thing, and needed to get merged back in. Which they did, imo quite well—a super complicated thing that would’ve been very easy to screw up.

most companies try to disrupt themselves and fail. OpenAI somehow figured out how to disrupt their main product, and then merge it back in seamlessly. incredible aura

[Meng To @MengTo]

GPT 5.6 Sol is incredible at design. Even with minimal prompting, it creates polished landing pages in record time.

But the real superpower is one-shot video-to-HTML.

Here's a 10-minute walkthrough showing exactly how to do it.

I also open-sourced the skills behind the workflow: https://t.co/gMuw2gt9FJ

[Richard Penny @HeraldIslander]

Thanks 🙏

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Added a banked reset to 500k users of ChatGPT Work and Codex.

What’s been happening:
- Just released the ability to use a banked reset from web and mobile. Before today you could only do it in the desktop app
- Had an issue where less than 10% of users who used a banked reset and it didn’t actually reset. This was during a 2 hour window.
- It was hard to find all the exact users where it didn’t apply, so instead granted a banked reset to everyone who pressed the reset button in that 2 hour window. This also gives us the opportunity to validate the new infra ahead of tomorrow

Tomorrow we will celebrate our 7M active users milestone and grant the first banked reset across all of our ChatGPT Work and Codex users.

We will also release a bunch of updates to the desktop app, addressing a ton of your feedback.

Talk soon

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

If you were using Codex before, two things to do

1. Keep using Codex. It is for you
2. Tell your friends and family about ChatGPT Work who you always wanted to show Codex but they’re not as technical and don’t work with code every day

and tell me how it goes

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

GPT-5.6 Sol on 750 Token/s in Blender.

Not sped up. Holy moly. That’s so much more impressive than looking at benchmarks

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Claude Code on desktop now has an in-app browser.

Claude can pull up docs, designs, or any other site. It can read, click through, and interact the same way it does with your local dev servers.

It's sandboxed and configurable: you choose whether sessions persist.

[Sam Altman @sama]

5.6 livestream going now.

in addition to the model, 3 major product things.

1. ChatGPT Work--really big deal!
2. new ChatGPT desktop app
3. hosted sites

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

GPT-5.6 comes in three model tiers.

→ Sol handles long-horizon coding and agentic work that demands planning, tool use, and follow-through.
→ Terra balances performance and cost for everyday work.
→ Luna brings speed to well-defined, high-volume work.

Across knowledge-work evaluations, GPT-5.6 Terra surpasses GPT-5.5 at lower cost, while GPT-5.6 Luna nearly matches GPT-5.5’s peak performance at well under half the estimated API cost.

https://t.co/XLGYkgiOlE

[Claude @claudeai]

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks.

It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk.

Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.

[Manuel Sainsily @ManuVision]

Today, @nvidia revealed some really interesting tech at #CES2023 related to #avatars, #AI & #XR.

[Richard Penny @HeraldIslander]

Seems #Uber drivers in Silicon Valley really don’t want to chat… I’m not looking for a romance but a simple “I’m good thanks, how are you?” shouldn’t be too much to ask should it?

[Richard Penny @HeraldIslander]

#Unity CEO John Riccitello gives his definition of metaverse

#awe2022