Alex Finn (@AlexFinn)

I don’t think you understand what ChatGPT Voice unlocks I went on a 4 hour hike yesterday. Through the northern California redwoods. Got more work done in those 4 hours talking to Voice through my AirPods then I do in 8 hours at my desk Work can be done ANYWHERE now 45 minute drive back using self driving? Now 45 minutes I can talk to Voice and work on side projects 20 minutes in the cafe? I can sit and talk to Voice and when I get home I have drafts on my computer for my newsletter for the next month Being able to just use your voice to talk to a super intelligence that controls your computer is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before I don’t even care that the voice sounds human like, or you can interrupt it, or any of the wild advancements they made to the tech It’s the fact that it can control my computer, meaning all I need to get incredible work done is talk through my AirPods anywhere in the world that is the major game changer for me I don’t think people truly understand the implications of this yet Why even have a desk or monitor anymore. Work can be done ANYWHERE now The key is your set up: 1. Choose one device (preferably an always on desktop) as your main “headquarters” device all your work gets done on 2. Get the ChatGPT app on all your other devices (iPhone, iPad, laptops, Mac Minis) 3. Set up ‘connections’ in your settings so that all your ‘node’ devices can control your ‘headquarters’ device 4. Go legit anywhere in the world. Turn on Voice. Ask it to brief you on your projects, give you a recommended next step, then spin up new threads to do work I really don’t think work looks the same moving forward.

I've completely soured on ChatGPT 5.6 sol ultra ChatGPT 5.6 sol medium is my new go-to Ultra consistently over the last few days overengineered everything I've given it. It's also painfully slow Medium is the sweet spot. Quick, while also narrow scoped My new stack: • Planning/complex tasks: Fable 5 high • Simple tasks: ChatGPT 5.6 sol medium • Hermes/OpenClaw ChatGPT 5.6 sol medium (even got great results on low tbh) • Testing: Codex (seems to be a bit better with browser/computer use) I liked Ultra at first, but lately for almost every task I give it it widens the scope to unreasonable levels, ignores my anti-goals, and will take tasks that should take no longer than 2 minutes and make them last literally 2 hours Efficiency is now the name of the game

I'm blown away. Ornith-1.0 35b is the best local model I've ever run that doesn't require 200GB+ of RAM Incredible at coding According to my tests it's both smarter and faster than Qwen 3.6 Plus it runs like a dream on a DGX Spark Here's how I'm using it: I have it running every hour and looping through different parts of my Henry Intelligent Machines codebase It looks for security vulnerabilities Any vulnerabilities it finds, it writes a report with the fix Then once a day another loop I have running in Codex reads the report with all the security bugs and verifies, then fixes I also have it once a day going through a reviewing all my open PRs Local models running on loops 24/7 is the future. I promise you What's becoming possible today with local models is truly mind blowing

I can't believe this is real I have GLM 5.2 running 100% locally on my Mac Studio. 2 bit quant. The results I'm getting are better than Opus 4.8 It's now powering my Hermes Agent and Codex. 100% free, local, private super intelligence on my desk I also have it in a loop coding for me 24/7 now I thought we were at least a year away from this type of event. It happened today. The model takes up about 250gb of memory. So you can technically run it on a Mac Studio with 256gb, but you probably want the 512gb memory version (please tell me you listened to me 5 months ago when these were sitting on store shelves) With Fable gone, I now have Opus 4.8 level intelligence on my desk for free. This is the future. Local, private, secure, personal super intelligence. If you're still writing off local AI as a fad or engagement bait, you are officially delusional

You need to set up this Codex system I have Been taking advantage of their new remote features and my productivity has 1000x'd I have one device (Mac Studio 1) as my main dev machine. That's where all code is written Then all my other devices (iPad, iPhone, Mac Studio 2, 2 Mac Minis) are nodes I send commands from No matter which device I'm on, no matter where I am in the world (could be at the grocery store, in bed, Japan, on the toilet, by the pool, on the road using FSD) I have code written in one place Made coding big projects SO much easier Here's what I'd do if I were you Choose one device you have (preferably a desktop device like Mac Mini or Mac Studio) Make this your main dev device. Make sure it never turns off and never goes to sleep Go into Codex app then settings on that device. Go to connections > control this Mac. Turn that on Then go into every other device you have, mobile, desktop, whatever, and go into Codex settings and enable control other devices Also download Tailscale on every device. This will allow you to create a private network that will allow your other agents (OpenClaw or Hermes) to jump between computers and make changes when necessary You now have a super powered AI private network where you can code or get work done from any device anywhere in the world Promise this 1000x's your productivity