Vol. I · No. 72TUE, JUN 30, 2026
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Sometimes the obvious...is not so obvious.

***C.C., old buddy, why did you write 50 lines of code to ensure a constant wasn't mutable?"*** I love Opus, man. "He" reminds me of an old friend who was absolutely brilliant, but give him too many bong hits and he was off in a rabbit hole talking about UFOs, fifth dimensional travel and, "Bob Lazar is full of shit, man!" The mods wanted me to provide the 50 line sample that backs up my opening quote (rightfully so.) It happened with work code, so I can't copypasta, but that little ditty went something like this: *(insert slow jazz here)* ^(1) import inspect import sys impor...

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Image 2.0 nailed it!

Reddit user praise for OpenAI's Image 2.0 capability; no substantive technical details or announcement provided.

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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as "vibe working," the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses. "When we first shipped Copilot, foundation models were not powerful enough to use Copilot to command the applications," admits Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "This meant Copilot was a passive partner in documents: it could answer questions but missed the mark whe...

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Introducing GPT-5.5

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, advancing capability in coding, research, and data analysis with improved speed and performance.

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