grok-4.6 in 2 weeks, 4.7 in 4. Musk says they're gunning for Kimi K3.
grok-4.6 in 2 weeks, 4.7 in 4
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Vivix just shipped A1 and it's got something
. Full-duplex, full-body digital human. Siri-style turn-taking is half-duplex: you talk, then it talks. A1 runs full-duplex, listening while it replies, talking over you and cutting in like a real person. The full-body part is what got me. This thing walks, turns, crouches to grab objects, holds them up, swaps products mid-demo. First time I've seen that in a digital human. For live commerce it's basically a host that picks up your product, demos it, and changes outfits to match your brand, 24/7, no cuts. They ship a standard API, so you can drop it into anything. Point it at your product and it's a support agent. Drop it in a game and it's a companion. Put it on a stream and it's your host. The use cases pretty much write themselves.
Claude Opus 5 is kinda insane
Near-Fable-5 level intelligence at half the price. 43.3% on Frontier-Bench — more than 2x Opus 4.8, and cheaper. On CursorBench (high), it's within 0.5% of Fable 5. And it's getting more AGI by the day — takes initiative like a real person, reflects and verifies its own work. Other models just patch bugs. This one digs out the root cause. For long tasks it takes over your dev environment and runs monitoring itself — only pings you when it genuinely can't decide.
Claude appeal rejected.
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Sharing my current mobile only workflow.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
