Internet speedtest yesterday vs today. The upgrade of a lifetime.

Any Codex users on the macOS Golden Gate beta? I’m thinking of upgrading early for the performance improvements, but if Codex breaks, I’m stuck. 😅

I left Zoho Mail for Google Workspace for one primary reason (and many smaller ones). Google Workspace can be accessed by AI agents. Zoho Mail doesn’t have first-class support. This is a strong trend lately. If my agent can’t easily use your service, I’ll move to one it can.

Talking to Claude is so pleasant. It doesn’t spit out a mountain of text like ChatGPT that I just skim. That said, the output quality is mixed. Both have strengths. Use both. There’s still no winner.

This is wild. I’m going to miss @thsottiaux’s big red button hmu if you want a referral, DMs are open

The connection between Codex iOS (in ChatGPT) and Codex Desktop is perhaps the most fragile service I’ve used in years. Even on LAN, this really sucks.

Codex is down @OpenAIDevs @thsottiaux

GPT 5.5 in Codex today feels INCREDIBLY slow. I’ve been using Extra High for a while and it thinks more, no doubt, but minor changes are taking an hour today.

macOS Golden Arches

This is especially true of AI-related features. Apple is already 1-2 years behind in AI, which is SEVERE and closer to a decade behind in the pre-AI world. YoY iteration will drastically slow them down.

With agentic coding, Apple should 100% be releasing new, significant features every 0.x update. There’s no excuse to move any slower. Continuing yearly release cycles when the everyone else is launching new features weekly/monthly will push them even further behind.

The iOS 27 beta 1 is actually very stable. No issues so far aside from minor UI stutter.

Siri AI is very welcome, but very basic. It’s an AI level from two years ago at least. Apple will still be playing catch-up for quite a while longer. It’s better by leaps and bounds but still feels dated compared to any modern AI service. It’s a big sigh of “finally” that should’ve shipped years ago.

Siri AI is okay. Initial impressions are that contextual awareness is pretty good. Follow-up questions still turn into "here's a web search" from time to time. This is beta 1, so not passing hard judgement yet. Siri appears to be somewhat useful now, and that's great.

Siri AI is locked behind a waitlist in iOS 27 beta 1. No idea how long approval will take.

macOS Golden Gate!

Here we go! #wwdc

The iOS vs Android battle is nearly as old as the smartphone itself. Tomorrow, Apple, who has appeared to run behind the entire tech industry in the AI race, introduces a feature that places them permanently ahead of not only Google, but every company building their own LLM, by becoming compatible with every LLM. It won’t matter if Gemini is the best, or if ChatGPT pulls ahead, or if Claude dominates long term. iPhone will support them all. Google will be forced to keep Gemini on par with the best AI in the space, or it will catastrophically lose the AI race to the one major tech company that doesn’t even have its own modern AI. By building its own LLM, Google has forced itself to subsidize Gemini indefinitely. By supporting all LLMs, Apple has put the financial and R&D burden on everyone else. It’s the ultimate reversal of policies. Apple went from a walled garden to wide open AI integration. Google went from the open platform to a locked down experience. What a timeline to be in.

I’m going to be experimenting with a new personal AI workflow in the coming weeks. It’s become apparent that I need exponentially more focus and clarity. I’m going to try to achieve that by: - writing at least one journal log on weekends or Mondays to organize my thoughts and reorient my goals for the week - have Codex read these and create tasks for actionable items - experiment with Codex time blocking my calendar for me to try to achieve deep work and not procrastinate on goals - give Codex access to email, analytics, meetings, along with journal logs so it can float important tasks and patterns to the top For too long I’ve been in the weeds of building and never shipping or marketing. That has to change, but that requires focus and higher level, bigger picture thinking with clarity. This is a hopeful step in that direction.

Excellent, my passkey is in @1Password but the 1P browser extension is broken half the time, so I can’t login to my Stripe dashboard. Crazy how 1Password went from the gold standard of password managers to a steaming pile that locks me out of accounts.