Vol. I · No. 25THU, MAY 14, 2026
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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as "vibe working," the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses. "When we first shipped Copilot, foundation models were not powerful enough to use Copilot to command the applications," admits Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "This meant Copilot was a passive partner in documents: it could answer questions but missed the mark whe...

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Introducing GPT-5.5

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, advancing capability in coding, research, and data analysis with improved speed and performance.

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one week in: opus 4.7 vs 4.6 - worse one shot rate, double the retries

I spent some time few days back comparing Opus 4.6 and 4.7 using my own usage data - just to see how they actually behave side by side. [https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn](https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn) it’s still pretty early for 4.7, but a few things surprised me. In my sessions, 4.7 gets things right on the first try less often than 4.6. One-shot rate sits around 74.5% vs 83.8%, and I’m seeing roughly double the retries per edit (0.46 vs 0.22). It also produces a lot more output per call - about 800 tokens vs 372 on 4.6 - which makes it noticeably more expensive. ...

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Qwen 3.6 27B is a BEAST

User reports Qwen 3.6 27B practical performance on data science and Python debugging tasks with 24GB VRAM.

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HY-3 PREVIEW

Brief mention of HY-3 preview with no details or link context provided.

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Codex settings

OpenAI Codex configuration guide covering personalization, detail levels, and permissions settings.

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Working with Codex

Tutorial on setting up Codex workspace, threads, projects, and file management for task completion.

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What is Codex?

Overview of OpenAI Codex as task automation platform enabling tool integration and document/dashboard generation.

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Automations

Guide to Codex automation features using schedules and triggers for recurring reports and workflows.

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Plugins and skills

Documentation on Codex plugins and skills for tool integration and workflow automation.

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That extra credit usage - it's not what I thought it was.

So we all got that extra credit a few weeks back, right? $150 in my case. I turned off extra usage until I needed it, which is today. Tried to call the API - no balance. So the extra usage is only via claude code. Thanks for that, Anthropic. EDIT: So I added $25 in API usage, and the text against that balance says: "Your credit balance will be consumed with **API, Claude Code** and Workbench usage. " Jesus wept, Anthropic. Do you seriously ever get someone to sit and think about what you're doing?

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New model seems imminent

OpenAI codex repo models.json updated removing 'latest frontier model' designation from version 5.4, suggesting imminent new model release.

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Qwen3.6 can code

User reports Qwen3.6-27B performs well on Svelte code generation, suggesting viability of open-weights models vs. paid APIs.

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