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EP. 008

Three big releases in seven days, and I put two of them against each other.

GPT-6 Astra came out Thursday. OpenAI's president called it a generational leap and said it might end up being what people point at as AGI. Big words. So I gave it the same brief I gave Fable 5.1 last week. Rebuild Loom for me. I recorded the whole thing.

Then ChatGPT Images 2.5 landed yesterday. You can draw in it now. You can leave a comment on one part of an image and it edits only that part.

I also rebuilt MSN Messenger, and you can go use it in about four seconds.

Lots to get into. Let's go.

Video Walkthrough

THIS WEEK IN AI

THE SKETCH FEATURE

Worth ten seconds of your time. This is OpenAI's own demo of it. You type @sketch, then you draw.

And that is what comes back. Same pose, same ketchup, same little green legs, and nobody described a word of it.

THE TEST

I gave Astra and Fable 5.1 the same job: rebuild Loom

Same brief, same day, two models. They did not land anywhere near each other.

Loom is not a small thing to rebuild. Screen capture, camera, upload, a share link, a viewer page that works for someone who has never heard of you. That used to be a team and a quarter.

One of them took five and a half hours. The other one took thirty five minutes.

Have a guess at which one you think won, then go watch it below.

One of the two builds, running. Editor, timeline, camera track, export, all of it. Click through to watch.

GO PLAY WITH THIS

I rebuilt MSN Messenger in GPT-6 Astra

The sounds, the functionality, everything rebuilt.

This is a straight hit of nostalgia. I might be dating myself and exposing that I am a millennial here, but if you remember the MSN Messenger era, this is going to bring all of it back.

I built it to see how far Astra would go on one idea, and it went further than I expected. It is live, it works, and it costs you nothing.

Go send someone a nudge.

Contact list, conversation window, and yes, the nudge still works.

THIS WEEKEND

Three things you could build in one weekend

Not theory. Three things I have built and use, and any one of them fits in a Saturday.

The self improving brain. A set of files that hold your voice, your audience and your business, and get sharper every single time you use them. Everything else you build sits on top of this one.

The Instagram saves engine. You already save reels you never look at again. This turns them into content ideas written in your voice.

The newsletter kit. This exact newsletter. One file in, an email and a web page out, no dependencies. I released it this week and it is in the Dojo with everything else.

Do all three. One on day one, one on day two, one on day three. By day four you have a brain that knows your voice, something feeding it ideas, and a way to get the result in front of people.

THE TREND

The image shortcuts blowing up right now actually work

I did not think these would do anything. They do.

This is the trend all over social at the moment. Slash commands for image generation.

You give it a slash command and an image. That is the whole thing. The image model takes care of the rest.

I did not believe it held up, so I sat down and ran them. They do exactly what they say they do.

I put 100 of them into one document, sorted by what you are actually trying to fix.

Four different creators, same week, same trend. This is everywhere right now.

One last thing.

Astra rebuilt MSN Messenger in an afternoon. Both models had a real go at Loom. Everyone is going to spend this week arguing about which one is ahead.

None of that matters if you do not go and build something with it. The models keep getting better whether you use them or not.

Crafted with by Justyn. Shipped with by AI.

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