> GPT-5 will have "enhanced agentic capabilities” and can handle “complex coding tasks with minimal prompting.”

this seems to be directly targeted at anthropic/claude, wonder if it leads anywhere or if claude keeps it's mystical advantage (especially with new claude models coming out this week as well).

> GPT-5 will have four model variants, according to GitHub...

i also find it interesting that the primary model is the logic-focused one (likely very long and deep reasoning), whereas the conversational mainstream model is now a variant. seems like a fundamental shift in how they want these tools to be used, as opposed to today's primary 4o and the more logical GPT-4.1, o4-mini, and o3.

> the people who gain the most from all these tools are not the developers—it’s all the people around who don’t write code

this insight stood out the most to me. i def agree, but what's interesting is the disconnect with the industry--it seems to be accepted rn that if coding is what ai is best at, developers must be the only ones that care, and that seems to have shown up in usage as well (i don't think i've seen much use of ai outside of personal use other than by developers, maybe i'm wrong?)

I’ve been giving Cursor to non-developers and watching their eyes light up with its “magic”. Giving non-developers easy access to simple python/powershell/bash/etc scripting for business tasks is a huge area for low hanging fruit that AI is extremely good at.

interesting idea, kind of like the y-combinator of blogging except with upfront tuition being paid instead of a longer-term investment by the 'provider'--i wonder if that business model could work as well?

We were thinking about whether there is any way to do some kind of income sharing agreement, but given how messy those tend to be (see all the Lambda school stuff as an example) we couldn't figure out a way to make it work.

Maybe if everyone was definitely starting a Substack we could take a small cut of Substack revenue for the next year or two, which would be straightforward enough.

If anyone has ideas, I would definitely be curious to hear them.

Maybe an Inkhaven substack that the writers agree to crosspost to for some length of time?

Interesting idea. Some thoughts:

I think the volume would really be a lot. For the program we'll be dealing with 900 (!) blogposts (30 residents times 30 blogposts). I doubt something with that volume would actually end up with many subscribers

Also, I would feel bad about splitting the audience of the authors. I feel like you really want to build your own audience early on.

And last, I am worried it would push people towards homogeneity. My ideal outcome from the whole project is that we will have a bunch of really very different blogs and essay writers find traction who share little of an audience, but add some important perspective to the world.

Do you envision a single writer writing largely on the same subject during the course of that month, or not?

Definitely not "same subject" if we are thinking of something as narrow as "Frontend development" but I would like many people to find a niche/style/perspective they feel at home in. Something as consistent as simonwillison.net seems good for many.

Also, my guess finding such a style/niche will take a bunch of exploration, so I think most people should probably write in a bunch of different styles and on a bunch of different things during Inkhaven to get more evidence about what they enjoy writing about the most (and which of their writing people want to read).

a number of these sync engines have been growing popular, most notably convex and zero (altho both of course are very different from automerge)--this one's rust/c api makes it more interesting, i wonder if an implementation for terminals uis could be possible?