The infrastructure for self-improving agents still needs three primitives:
step-level trajectories, governed workload capture, and a control plane for deciding when to update weights vs the harness
Agentic RL is increasingly an observability problem.
https://t.co/FBeTFwdAgW
I switched to GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex during one of the most difficult debugging sessions I’ve had recently.
We were working on R3, a system that records which “experts” an AI model chooses during inference and replays those choices during training. The idea sounds simple, but the data has to survive a long journey: across multiple GPUs, CUDA Graph batches, storage pools, multi-turn agent conversations, sequence truncation, packing, splitting, and finally training replay.
Every part looked correct when tested alone. But in a real distributed experiment, one routing value would occasionally arrive at the wrong token.
GPT-5.6 Sol didn’t just suggest random fixes. It followed the entire data journey, connected logs from different machines and codebases, and helped design an end-to-end canary that gave every token a predictable identity. That let us see exactly where the identity changed.
The real environment then exposed several subtle edge cases: padded CUDA Graph batches, terminal tool-response tokens that never returned to inference, and long conversations truncated in the middle of an active generation. Some failures were bugs in the production pipeline; others were bugs in our verification logic. Sol helped separate the two instead of “fixing” the wrong thing.
After several real multi-GPU experiments, the small validation passed. Then the full-scale validation kept running normally across multiple training steps.
I really sat back in my chair and I was just like, “Oh man! Here it is!” It feels like the Manhattan Project.
That’s what I love about GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex. It doesn’t feel like autocomplete. It feels like debugging with an engineer who can keep the whole system—code, logs, experiments, assumptions, and previous failures—in its head while still reasoning carefully about one mismatched value.
That’s why I switched. @thsottiaux@sama@OpenAI
Or… what if we gave you $100 in Codex credits if you tell us what you love about GPT-5.6 Sol or why you switched?
Tweet it, claim your gift, enjoy more usage. First 10k get the free tokens!
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DeepSeek just released DSpark for V4 Flash & Pro, a new speculative decoding method boosting throughput by 51% to 400%!
DS also showed DSpark works well for other models like Gemma & Qwen
Github: https://t.co/EGVYpc1kcK
Paper: https://t.co/TaBMRVlaW9
HF: https://t.co/289jVU2pxh
I remember when Jiajun told me he wants to push for TITO because he thinks this is important though he does not understand why people are not doing it. It’s great they were able to insist on their own judgement! A long work before this blog.