The release candidate for MCP 2026-07-28 is out. The protocol is now stateless: no handshake, no session id, any request can hit any server instance. Plus extensions as first-class (MCP Apps, Tasks), auth hardening, and a proper deprecation policy so we don't have to do this again. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io…

I find the sometimes-overlap between the "AI slop" narrative and the "software engineering is ending" narrative entertaining.

how did Allbirds pivot to AI compute hardware before the shoe company literally called ASICS

My new way to setup an LXC container is to put codex in my core image and I just ask it to do whatever. Today's achievement is it configured my two nics as a bonded group for hot fail over.

- Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true. - lol The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.

don't call it vibe coding - that's associated with yolo i smash head on keyboard, not thinking, engineering, building, testing, debugging, iterating. agentic engineering, or just...coding. We move faster, but it's still hard.

I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I’m proud of what we built together.

GPT-5.4 is launching, available now in the API and Codex and rolling out over the course of the day in ChatGPT. It's much better at knowledge work and web search, and it has native computer use capabilities. You can steer it mid-response, and it supports 1m tokens of context.

always run with xhigh reasoning

I purchased it from you guys so won't be hard for the return. Still working out how to get a multi though. I'd buy 4 right now if I could. Will let you know when I succeed 😉

Official blog post from the MCP Community on MCP's first extension : blog.modelcontextprotocol.io…

App'y day

Making devs finally write docs by calling them “skills” is a great arb

Microservices are what happens when your organization has communication problems and you decide the architecture should have them too.

I regret my haircut was the following day

Thanks @grinich for hosting MCP Night, was great to chat on stage with @dsp_ @maniksurtani and Jim on our shiny new AAIF!

GPT-5.2 Thinking evals

AAIFFTW