Also, For All Mankind always finds a way to become even more joyfully unhinged every single season.
Only halfway through the first episode of For All Mankind season five, and I’m calling it — they’re going to cryogenically freeze Ed Baldwin.
After the OpenClaw Anthropipocalypse, I have been struggling to find a suitable alternative. Started with OpenAI Codex, and while it matches Opus 4.6’s 1M token context window, it is just not well suited for the use case of orchestration and friendly assistant. It has a tendency to hallucinate and its projected demeanor is… weird. It’s like concentrated Mark Zuckerberg from a personality perspective. Decently good at technical tasks, tho.
I am currently using z.ai with their “Coding” plan, and I’m impressed. GLM-5.1 is remarkably similar to Opus 4.6 in my experience thus far. The 200k token window is tiny, unfortunately, but with some creative use of subagents, it’s manageable. I’ve also kept Codex around for now, modifying my standard operating procedures to encourage the use of Codex subagents for grunt work that requires a large token count.
I’ve started blocking out an hour at the end of the day for prompting — capturing tasks and projects that get codified into Markdown files placed in an “ingest” directory. Then, I run a custom command that tells my agent to create a context fork for each file, autonomously executing each task in a sandbox. Then, I head home. If one of the forks encounters a blocker for any reason, it sends me a message on Signal which I can reply to or ignore.
Back in LA after a lovely Easter week in Palm Desert. Happy to be home, but I’ll miss the pool and the stars! I did receive some fun packages while I was away, including an XTEINK X3 to go with my X4.
I’m so happy Daredevil is back. The O.G. Netflix series was great thanks to lovable characters, a great villain, and John Wick level fight scenes.
Born Again got off to a rocky start in S1, with multiple rewrites, pivots, and chaos that were evident on the screen, but at least it was on screen.
S2 of Born Again has recaptured the magic, with a budget clearly being put to work with well choreographed fight scenes in epic (expensive) settings. We also finally get some bonus heroes that participate.
Fun ride so far!