OpenAI really did pack a lot into DevDay. The most interesting features for me are Dots and the Jev-like Decisions API. That will be super useful.

Watching the DevDay livestream. There is nothing like a live demo. Even when things are slow or go slightly wrong, it feels so much more real.

For a live presentation, everyone in the audience is rooting for the speaker. For a pre-recorded video, everyone is just waiting for it to be over.

John Voorhees is live-tweeting DevDay over on X. Nice look inside the venue. We need to make it more appealing to do this kind of coverage from indie microblogs, not silos.

Mark Gurman has a blog post about John Ternus attempting to streamline Apple:

The early ideas under consideration include relying less on traditional spring and fall product release schedules… […] Ternus wants the company to introduce products more frequently — throughout the year.

Sounds great! But:

They have discussed launching new services and extracting more revenue from existing products and offerings.

Not great.

Dave Winer reflects on the passing of Om Malik too young, and the work left to do for the open web.

Reuters on Anthropic’s IPO filing:

Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its ​IPO that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same ‌technology.

Yawn. There will be hacks and there will be other big problems, but I’m increasingly of the opinion that the risk to humanity is 0%. We are resilient and won’t be wiped out by robots. I’m so burned out on the extreme rhetoric.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be careful. Of course we should. OpenAI scrapping GPT-6.1 over safety is a good sign.

My OpenClaw server mostly just sits there idle, but one thing I love is it automatically updates Micro.blog’s latest app versions help page. It checks what the current shipped version is and also if there’s an app in review. I still maintain the release notes by hand, for now.

Bummed to hear that Brightline is filing for bankruptcy:

For months, the company has been grappling with an unsustainable $5.5 billion debt load even while the passenger operations have become profitable. Now, a restructuring plan led by a major municipal-bond insurer appears poised to push the Fortress Investment Group-backed rail network into court to reorganize its deeply distressed balance sheet.

Hopefully they can restructure and keep moving forward. We need the Vegas line finished and new rail in Texas.

After a reminder from @danielpunkass, I’m playing with Automattic’s Spacefast again. Honestly don’t love the name, but what they’ve created is fascinating. Agent-first publishing, very complete API too. Clever onboarding that I could learn from.