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The past few months I have held full-day workshops in agentic engineering for hundreds of developers. And what strikes me every time is how little most people know about how AI models really work. And there’s a good reason for it. I still haven’t encountered any good management-level introduction videos that explain how these models […]

GPT-5.5 is different. GPT-5.5 is the first model trained at OpenAI’s flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas, one of the supercomputing facilities funded by the $500 billion partnership between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. The site runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is powered by NVIDIA’s GB200 Blackwell systems, and is purpose-built to train frontier AI at […]

Be prepared to forget everything you have learnt about how to maximize AI productivity by maximizing token usage. In the new token economy less is more, and the new top skill for AI engineers in 2026 will be how to optimize token usage to save cost. When OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 last Thursday they doubled the […]