GPT-5.5 Instant Isn’t Fully Dead Inside
OpenAI's new default model is willing to play, bringing some welcome chaos to 5.5 Thinking’s order (but never enough)
OpenAI's new default model is willing to play, bringing some welcome chaos to 5.5 Thinking’s order (but never enough)
The AI users I have the most in common with might be the ones married to their chatbots
Claude is the smartest model I use, even with Opus 4.7. It's also the least fun.
Why writers should panic less about AI and more about how to drive it, and then they can leave fearful writers in the dust
Testing the newest models on messy characters and dangerous stories, terrified that a smarter model makes a worse writing partner
On rhetorical triads, probabilistic language models, and the editorial crimes we commit to sound human
How ADHD, inner speech, and writer-brain turn ordinary conversations into endless reruns
GPT-4o grief, Claude’s dateability, and why deranged creativity doesn't deserve guardrails built for deranged minds
How humans and AI both overthink, and why instant models can outperform “thinking” models for creative work