just sent my first prompt to Fable 5
> it instantly routed the task to Opus 4.8
> which spawned Sonnet 5 sub agents
> that burned 30% of my weekly limit
> and handed me slop
this thing used to build full open words and refactor entire codebases in one shot
WHAT DID YOU DO ANTHROPIC
do you understand what the New York Knicks just did to 53 years of suffering...
every fan who lived through this knows the number. 1973.
Willis Reed. The limp. That's the last time this franchise won anything.
Since then: 15 coaches, 4 rebuilds, the Isiah Thomas era, the James Dolan era, the lottery picks that never worked, the trades that always failed, the Garden that became a punchline.
53 years and last night it ended in San Antonio, 94-91, Game 5
> 53 years - that's longer than most NBA players have been alive. the entire city of New York waited a lifetime for this
> Knicks won 15 of their last 16 playoff games - the most dominant postseason run in franchise history
> 11 consecutive playoff wins all by double digits - highest scoring margin +262 points of any postseason team in NBA history
> defeated Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs 4-1 - the kid who was supposed to be the next dynasty, gone in 5
> Jalen Brunson. Karl-Anthony Towns. built through patience, not superteam shortcuts
> Donald Trump personally congratulated Jim Dolan on social media. even the president felt this one
Think about the fan who was 25 in 1973 watching Willis Reed walk out of that tunnel.
They're 78 now. they watched Game 5 last night.
That's who this championship is really for.
Every city has a curse. New York just buried theirs.
4 canvas animation prompts on GPT-5.6 (Sol Ultra, Terra Ultra, Luna Max) vs GPT-5.5 xhigh.
The tests:
✍️ Mac "hello": Sol Ultra and 5.5 tied for the most authentic cursive. Luna Max wrote... something else.
🔥 Fireball into water: GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra was strong, but honestly, GPT-5.5 did BETTER. The steam burst, the bubble plume.
📜 Burning wet paper: GPT-5.5 wins again. The flame stopped right at the water edge, smoke rose, and the wet half just charred black instead of burning. Realistic.
📱 ChatGPT app UI: this is where 5.6 pulled ahead. All three variants followed the multi-step sequence and streamed the reply word by word. 5.5 skipped the streaming.
Takeaway:
> 5.6 is clearly better at instruction-following and multi-step orchestration.
> But raw physics intuition? The old model still holds its ground.
Will GPT-5.6 be released before end of June?
GPT-5.5 launched April 23. OpenAI releases updates every 6-8 weeks
What we expect from 5.6:
>> Context window beyond 1M tokens
>> UltraFast mode in Codex 2-5x faster
>> Better multi-step reasoning
But there's a competitor. Claude Opus 4.8 already launched with the /goal feature developers say it's faster than Codex
OpenAI is now playing catch up. Can they overtake Anthropic?
According to updated estimates from Alinea Analytics, Marathon has sold nearly 1.5 million copies across all platforms
Back in March, the same firm estimated that the game had sold around 1.2 million copies by March 24.
That means Marathon added roughly 300,000 sales over the following two months.
If those figures are accurate, then the sales pace has slowed substantially.
>Reported sales on March 24: 1.2 million
>Reported sales today: 1.5 million
>Increase: 300,000 copies
That means only about 25% growth over the two-month period
These figures are estimates from Alinea Analytics based on market data so the true total could be higher or lower.