TESLA ADDS A NEW CYBERCAB TO AUSTIN STREETS EVERY 3 HOURS.
On September 4 there were 38, and yesterday the official count passed 300.
Keep that pace and Austin has about 1,000 by New Year.
And it's speeding up. Texas approvals jumped from 169 to 319 in early October alone.
Dallas, your city is next.
Ashok Elluswamy, who runs AI software at Tesla, already said it in two words, "Dallas soon."
Opus 5.5 being “2x more expensive” is one of those facts that dies the second you run a long agent loop
[the loop changes the math]
1. at 20K context, Opus is still 1.88x Sonnet per turn
2. at 150K, that falls to 1.49x. by 400K, it is only 1.26x
3. the reason is cache. both models pay the same $0.20 / 1M for cache reads, so old context stops widening the bill
4. the ugly part is switching late. drag 300K of failed context into Opus and you spend $1.50 just rebuilding cache
5. catch the failure around turn 6 and hand off 20K instead. that costs about $0.10
at 150K, 30 Sonnet turns cost $1.76
20 Opus turns cost $1.75
the real optimization is not “use the cheaper model”
it is knowing when to stop paying for the wrong one ↓
🚨 MW4 DMZ EARLY LAUNCH 🚨
DMZ early access begins October 20th, 3 days before multiplayer / full launch on October 23rd, and just 4 days after campaign early access on the 16th.
DMZ and Campaign early access only available to those who digitally preorder.
Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.
He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.
His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.
Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."
His entire framework fits on a napkin.
Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."
That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.
"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.
Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.
The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.
Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.
The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.
@TechByNagma