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Do you have to be a US citizen to create great software now?

Do you have to be a US citizen to create great software now?

I know I maxed out every Fable account I had before dinner last night. This morning that looks like good timing, because Fable is switched off, for everyone,…

Fable Orchestrating ChatGPT 5.5

Fable Orchestrating ChatGPT 5.5

New pattern this week: Fable at full force, maxed out, orchestrating ChatGPT 5.5. The logic is tokens. The ChatGPT subscription offers vast quantities of them.…

Get Fable to Do the Big Stuff

Get Fable to Do the Big Stuff

The way I figure it, a Claude subscription today at $200 buys about $2,000 worth of Fable before the promo window closes. If you're building, it's absolutely…

Fable Broke Through a Bottleneck

Fable Broke Through a Bottleneck

I'm a bit giddy about Fable, and I may be recanting my statements from this morning. It just managed to break through a bottleneck that neither Opus 4.8 nor…

What it costs to run 20 agents at once

What it costs to run 20 agents at once

Fable is a beast. One-million to two-million-token runs in just 30 minutes. That'll eat up 7 to 10 percent of your weekly allotment on a $200 subscription, in…

GPT 5.5 Is a Real Beast

GPT 5.5 Is a Real Beast

I'm not impressed. I just dropped one of my Claude subscriptions and I'm transferring it to another ChatGPT one. That's a money decision, so it deserves a…

Building Across Three Computers at Once

Building Across Three Computers at Once

Dang... Your apps, your stores, whatever you're building — your interface is now Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or OpenClaw. And I guess you'll soon be able to farm…

Every Business Will Have Its Own AI Operating System

Every Business Will Have Its Own AI Operating System

I suspect every business, and most personal lives, will have their own operating systems — custom built by their owners and constantly evolving with time.…

From 180 Agents Down to One

From 180 Agents Down to One

I'm curious how other people are finding multiple agents, because I've gone all the way around the loop and come back to one. At one point I had as many as 180…

ChatGPT 5.5 just ran for 13.4 hours flat

ChatGPT 5.5 just ran for 13.4 hours flat

Just a note that ChatGPT 5.5 just ran for 13.4 hours flat — invoking Claude and Gemini when I'd asked, to review Codex's own work — without stopping. That's an…

Reversing the Claude and Codex Flow

Reversing the Claude and Codex Flow

Claude used to lay code and Codex would fix it, in a pretty fair 1:1 time split. Today it's taking Codex four times longer to fix Claude's code. 1:4. That's…

It's Hard to Go Backwards

It's Hard to Go Backwards

This has me very rattled. Just back from a very busy week in London, so my time with Claude has been light. Now I'm back, and very concerned that we aren't…