GPT-6 Astra recreated the Palace of Fine arts in Blender.
This is favorite building in San Francisco because it was built for the World's Fair in 1914 where the steam locomotive and telephone were showed off. It was a time when technology gave us all a deep sense of optimism for the future.
I feel like some of that sense has been lost since, but I hope models like astra can help restore it, and push us towards a more hopeful future.
the most underappreciated second-order effect of software being commoditized is that the demand for hardware will skyrocket as software and hardware are classic complements.
the world is going to look very sci-fi very fast.
This works by letting Codex trigger a Shortcut via an iMessage automation. The Shortcuts app has a full HTTP client so my iPhone can POST data back to my Mac.
Codex can also take actions by calling iOS deep links. One pattern I've found useful is having Codex grep search through iMessages on my Mac then open that specific message on my iPhone via a deep link.
This plugin is fully open source:
Siri sucks. So I made a way for Codex to act as my iPhone's voice assistant.
Now Codex can read my screen, control apps, and take actions on my behalf – all in vanilla iOS 27.
this is insanely cool. engram is pretty much working on a model that can improve itself through every interaction across *all* users
which will likely be the single biggest capabilities jump since o1-style chain of thought reasoning