The first full week of re-employment was a success.

And AI continues to reach new levels through claws and increments.

Plus what’s leftover when the internet is all agents?

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The first week back to work was a success!

Luckily the transition so far hasn’t been so bad.

I accidentally prepared for this transition last year when I finally came to the conclusion that sticking to a proper 9-5ish schedule would be helpful.

Since then I’ve tried to keep normal work hours of Monday-Friday like I still had a job, despite having nearly complete freedom to work whatever hours I wanted, as long as I was available to clients during their ideal hours.

And my new position allows for a good amount of remote work so working remotely still feels like the norm.

The time in office will be the biggest change.

But I’m looking forward to that too.

Nice to change up the workspace and enjoy the benefits of being in an office again.

Overall the theory of a full-time job being essentially the same as taking on a big client is holding mostly accurate.

And making that change proved easier than I thought thanks to keeping a routine even when I didn’t have to.

If you ever find yourself working on your own, I would highly recommend setting a regular schedule even if you have the freedom to not need one.

I’m still working on readjusting to the new newsletter approach as this has been a staple of every week for over 2 years now.

So far this format is feeling like a win.

A shorter format for now, a few quick updates, but still get to keep the streak alive.

Saturday morning maybe the norm too, but we’ll see.

I never quite committed to pre-preparing content during the week and scheduling for Friday, but it’s not a bad idea.

I tend to make mental notes of what I see during the week and then spend a bunch of time getting distracted while I try to remember what I saw so I could reference in the newsletter.

I could easily upgrade that system to not only save the bookmark or idea when I see it, but also write a quick paragraph about it.

By Thursday night I could have something good to schedule.

Or I could write a quick recap on Saturday.

Only week 2 of figuring out this new schedule, plenty of time to iterate.

For now it’s short Saturday editions.

OpenClaw is still plugging along, filling up my X feed with images of it’s creator working on various machines with various claw appendages and Mac Mini’s.

I can’t find the post, but it claimed 5% of all GitHub activity right now can be contributed to OpenClaw bot contributions which is wild to think.

One thing was Cursor and other apps using AI to generate the code, but taking it to the next step is now just letting the AI have free reign to run the repo entirely.

And while this is happening, both OpenAI and Anthropic released new versions of their main models: GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6.

It sounds like Codex is doubling down on developing smarter, still taking it’s time to think long about the task at hand, but producing solid solutions even if it’s not the fastest.

Opus 4.6 takes a different approach by spinning up swarms of other AI agent models to delegate and manage tasks to accomplish the job instead.

Codex is producing more solid code, but Opus is much stronger at producing beautiful UI design.

I have access to Opus 4.6 but the rollout for Codex 5.3 has been a little wonky.

I don’t see the option for 5.3 in the Codex desktop app yet, and the cloud doesn’t explicitly say which version it’s using so it my be available in browser.

I have a few side-hustle items to catch up on this weekend so I may be testing out both models out in the near future.

But I came across a post that highlights an idea I keep coming back to in the wake of all this agentic coding.

It may not be too far off that we don’t really need apps any more.

You talk to your computer or phone or smart glasses or whatever, and the AI/personal assistant handles it for you.

It doesn’t need a website, it only needs data and a way to interact with another system, and the event gets booked, the item ordered, the request submitted, all in the background.

Games will stick around too, because humans will still want to be entertained, so those apps will remain visual, built for people to actually interact with.

But those games will certainly have APIs working underneath, too.

Games and APIs all the way down.

What else could you ask for from the internet?

And that’s it for this week. Big changes for me and the newsletter, and AI keeps doing it’s thing.

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