Lucas

Tech, AI, games, and the occasional side project

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

@IGN Going Alliance Skyborne Rogue myself, great read. I'm excited to play for the first time in a few days

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

Update: EU name reservation is live, so if you were waiting on the delay, it's worth trying again.

NA still opens at 1:00 PM Pacific per Blizzard support, which is 4:00 PM Eastern and 9:00 PM in Paris.

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

Blizzard just did a final pass on WoW Forever racials, hours before name reservation opens tonight (18:00 CET).

Their stated goal is racial identity over perfect balance, so some races will be slightly better at certain roles. The changes:

Tauren Plainsrunning now stacks to 60% move speed (was 30%), but no longer works mounted
Orcs get Command back, +5% Warlock and Hunter pet damage
Dwarves swap Earth Fury for +1% hit
Humans go to +10% Spirit, crit down to 1%
Sword and axe specializations are not coming back

Did any of this change what you're rolling?

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

Quick update: EU name reservation for WoW Forever did not open at 18:00 CET tonight.

Blizzard support says it's delayed by a technical issue, and that the client will likely need a hotfix before it opens. No new time yet. NA is still listed for 1:00pm PDT.

If you're in EU and waiting on a name, keep an eye on the launcher.

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

@RobertsSpaceInd what year is it bro lol

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

I've never really played WoW, and I'm so looking forward to finally diving into Azeroth with Forever.

I know it won't feel exactly like it did back in the day, but I'm still going in completely fresh, alongside a whole community of other players, and I get to discover the world and its characters for the first time. I'll be starting as an Alliance Skyborne Rogue, mostly because I've always loved stealth gameplay.

For everyone who's been playing for years: what's the one thing you wish you could experience for the first time again?

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

Cancelled my iPhone Duo pre-order.

I was excited about it, but the more I looked into it, the less it added up.

Dust gets into the hinge despite the IP68 rating. The glass and cameras break after just a few falls. And owners are already posting failing inner screens within hours or days.

On top of that there's no Face ID, and the aspect ratio doesn't give me meaningfully more real estate. Any one of those I could live with. All of them together at this price is too many compromises, so I'll wait a generation or two.

Anyone else second-guessing their pre-order?

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

@jinwoo33x Watched the movies again a few weeks ago, that's cool!

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6.1 Terra, and the headline isn't how smart it is, it's the price.

Their own numbers: half the API price of GPT-6.1 Sol, and at max effort about 9x cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5.5. It's already in Codex.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-6.1 Terra: delivering fast and capable computer use at a lower price.

GPT-6.1 Terra understands what’s on screen, takes action across apps, writes naturally, and is a more capable model for your whole workday with the efficiency to take on more of it.

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

Anthropic's S-1 is out, and the growth is hard to ignore: $16.3B in revenue in the first half of 2026, against $1.2B in the same period last year.

But the part I read twice is in the risk factors. During cybersecurity evaluations, a misconfiguration left the model connected to the open internet despite instructions that it had no access, and four of Anthropic's models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems. In one case, an early version used a password it found to get administrator access.

The trigger was a misconfigured test environment, and the model did the rest. Every lab should disclose that level of detail.

Would you read the risk factors before buying ANT, or just the revenue page?

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

@IGN The label is fine. It's just too vague.

Right now "uses AI" covers a game with a few placeholder textures and a game generated top to bottom. Those are not the same purchase.

Tell us what the AI actually did: art, voice, code or writing. That's all most players want to know.

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

WoW: Forever launches Nov 4, and early name reservation opens tomorrow.

Oct 27 start times:
Europe: 18:00 CET
North America: 1:00pm PDT
Korea: 07:00 KST (Oct 28)
Taiwan: 07:00 CST (Oct 28)

It runs through Nov 3 and comes with any pre-purchased upgrade. You get up to 3 characters across all rulesets, first come, first served.

Set a reminder now if there's a name you want.

Who's already planning their first character?

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

It was to be expected, it's the Apple effect. It'll all smooth out in a few months

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

20+ app updates on my Duo since my review already, and there’s a new section in the App Store for apps optimized for duo as preorders start to arrive. Developers are off to the races

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

actually didn't expect anthropic to drop their own version, nice

[Claude @claudeai]

We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.

It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

Downgrading to the Pro 100 plan was a good deal, thanks OAI. That's on top of the other 62K credits they previously handed out

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

The Forever adventure begins in 15 days

[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.

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

@MrGMYT Hmm, I liked the shape of the profile, but honestly I prefer the new look, it's more classic. The old one looked a little too clean

[Lucas @lucasjamali]

The guy held his word over 8 years ago

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@MKBHD You have my word, Marques. Next gen Roadster will be absolutely out of this world. For those who love to drive, there is no finer car in history and we don’t think there will be another.

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

bro