Find people and what they’re building.
GPT-6 Astra can work inside a browser. That makes it interesting for testing the app you just built.
OpenAI released Astra on September 3. Its launch announcement describes stronger computer use, including building websites and checking their features in the browser. Those are OpenAI's claims, not results from a Pingaling test.
A practical experiment for your next side project:
Give the agent a staging URL and one speci…
Claude Fable 5.1 has a useful update for people building with AI: cheaper cache reads.
Anthropic announced it on September 1. Its listed cache-read price is $0.25 per million tokens, down 75% from Fable 5. That cut applies to cached input, not your entire bill.
Regular input and output prices remain $10 and $50 per million tokens. Anthropic estimates around 25% savings on typical token-billed workloads. Your result dep…
OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 in the API on September 10.
It can listen and speak at the same time. OpenAI says it can also hand deeper reasoning and tool calls to a backend model.
The announced price is $0.05 per minute for the voice layer. That is not an all-in price for the backend work. This is an announcement summary, not a hands-on review.
A small prototype idea: a voice guide for a fictional app's help page.
Give it…
if someone's work made your day a little easier, tell them.
the tutorial that finally clicked. the tiny app you keep opening. the patient answer you still remember.
they might have no idea it mattered.
a specific thank you can mean a lot.
beginner app-building tip: plan what the screen shows when there is nothing to show yet.
a list of notes needs more than a design filled with perfect sample notes.
try writing these four states in plain language before styling the page.
The app is still fetching the notes. Say "Loading your notes..." so an empty area doesn't look like lost work.
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