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[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

🚨 OpenAI drops ChatGPT 5.2. 🚨

And if 5.1 already rewired the game… 5.2 is going to punch a hole straight through it.

Here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud:
When breakthrough tech drops, there’s a tiny window where early adopters get an UNFAIR advantage.
Most people sit back and “wait to see what happens.”
The ones who move end up owning the opportunities everyone else wishes they took.

If 5.2 launches tomorrow, here’s exactly how to capitalize on it:

1. Upgrade immediately.
Make sure you’re on Pro and using the highest-thinking model. Don’t handicap yourself out of the gate.

2. Run your entire day through it.
Every task. Every workflow. Every question.
Ask it: “How would you do this faster, better, or differently than me?”

3. Give it your full career context.
Create a “career brief” prompt—your background, goals, strengths, weaknesses, ambitions.
Then ask: “How do I level up 10x with this new model?”

4. Build something. Anything.
Open your AI coding tool (Codex, Cursor, whatever supports the model)
→ try building an app
→ try generating a product
→ try automating a workflow
You might stumble into something you can literally sell.

5. Integrate it into EVERYTHING.
Your writing. Your job. Your learning. Your systems.
If you discover one use case per hour, your life compounds FAST.

6. Consume the firehose.
Breakdowns. Demos. X threads. YouTube explainers.
The people who understand the tech earliest always extract the most value.

Every time a jump like this happens, new doors open that didn’t exist 24 hours earlier.

The people who treat these moments like a gold rush win.
The people who watch from the sidelines wonder how everyone else “got ahead.”

🚨 Do NOT be a passive observer this time.
This is your chance to get in early—again.

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

OpenAI GPT 5.2 has surfaced in cursor

New launch coming soon

Hope it’s better than Opus for coding

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

ChatGPT launched 3 years ago today

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

Customers don’t want a product, they want a solution.

Sell the hole, not the shovel.

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

Don’t mind me casually scraping every LinkedIn post of @im_roy_lee

Going to create the ultimate shitposter machine

[Influence @tryinfluence]

New Claude model!

This is gonna send startups to the moon!

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

🚨 New Claude Model Released 🚨

This is absolutely insane, only competition this model has for coding is its previous ones

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

🚨 New Claude Model Released 🚨

This is absolutely insane, only competition this model has for coding is its previous ones

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

There’s already a website for TOON!

[Influence @tryinfluence]

@LuisAndLearn Damn right

[Influence @tryinfluence]

If you’re into startup content you should check him out

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

We crossed 600 followers!!!!

Up next, big 1k😎

[Influence @tryinfluence]

RT @LuisAndLearn: Someone that lives like they’re broke will beat someone that lives below their means

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

🚨 BREAKING: Senators have struck a deal to end the federal government shutdown.

- Government funding extended through January 30.

- December vote set on the Affordable Care Act bill.

- The deal reverses President Trump’s federal employee firings.

- Food stamps will remain funded through 2026

Kalshi millionaire was just made

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

Vibe coders are modern slave owners

[Influence @tryinfluence]

Focus on customer problems, not their proposed solutions

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

If you split test everything you end up with a porn site

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

No matter what your goal is, you will suffer to achieve it.

So pick a goal big enough it’s worth suffering for.

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

Who else just realized the heart shows a pumpkin!

Can’t believe this app is free.

[Influence @tryinfluence]

This is PMF

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

Can’t believe this app is free

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

Duolingo is the UI goat

What kind of language app would think a leaderboard makes sense?

Yet, it keeps me motivated to want to read the top even tho it doesn’t matter

[Luis Vale @LuisAndLearn]

New Apple release is looking amazing

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Forget FAANG, we’re now in a MANGO world 🥭