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OpenAI DevDay 2026: ChatGPT Doesn't Wait for You Anymore

OpenAI's DevDay 2026 shipped always-on agents called dots, a shared workspace for them, GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's price, a 300-token-per-second speed tier, and its own answer to Jev. Here's what actually launched, what it costs, and where I'd start.

  • AI News
  • AI Models
  • Agents
  • AI Engineering
Article 15 min read

Higgsfield Layers: split any flat image into editable layers

Higgsfield just shipped Layers — an AI image editor that splits one flat image into real, editable layers. Swap the background, the object, even the text, and nothing else moves. Here's what it actually does, what it costs, and where it breaks.

Article 5 min read

Jev: The Most Talked-About AI Model of 2026 Doesn't Say a Word

TypeSafe AI came out of stealth with $40M and a model that can't write a sentence. Three days later it was the fastest-adopted model in Vercel's AI Gateway history. Here's what Jev actually does, what the benchmarks leave out, and the four places I'd put it first.

  • Jev
  • TypeSafe AI
  • AI Models
  • AI Engineering
Article 16 min read

The /analyze skill: reverse-engineer any viral video

Cindy Zhu's full setup for a custom Claude skill that reverse-engineers viral short-form videos — install the skill, connect Apify so Claude pulls real transcripts and metrics itself, paste a week of saved reels, and get hook, structure, retention and cross-video pattern reports. Includes the complete paste-ready skill source.

Article 26 min read

Build a Fully Local Voice AI on Windows — No API, No Subscription

A real-time voice companion running entirely on one RTX 5080. Four stages, five models, ~15.5 GB VRAM, 0.70s from your last word to her first sound. Every number here was measured on the machine, not copied from a spec sheet.

Article 14 min read

Hello MACTOKYO

这是一篇用于验证 Notion → 网站发布管道的测试文章。

Article 1 min read

Rebuilding This Site with Astro and Notion

Why I moved my portfolio off Adobe Portfolio onto Astro, Tailwind, and a Notion CMS — the architecture and the trade-offs.

  • astro
  • notion
  • meta
  • web
Note 1 min read

Notes on Designing AI Products

What changes when the product's core behavior is probabilistic: designing for uncertainty, latency, and trust in AI features.

  • ai
  • product-design
  • essay
Article 1 min read

A Brand-New Vacuum Robot

Product research on the robot-vacuum category: mapping the competitive landscape and where a new entrant could still differentiate.

  • product-research
  • hardware
  • consumer
Research 1 min read