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Claude's computer use lags Codex, so Gael has Claude call Codex over MCP whenever it needs to click around. Works on a $20 plan.

Mark's best use for ChatGPT Dots: finding the 1 or 2 emails that actually need him, and logging his end-of-day voice notes.

The Railway hack exposed our API keys at 8 AM. Gael had Codex rotate them in the browser while he was on stage.

Data brokers are offering $200K to $300K for your company's Slack, email and docs, with 48 hours to decide. Gael thinks selling is probably rational. We're not selling ours.

Codex Fast mode: you pay twice the tokens and sometimes it's slower. Gael measured it, then switched to Opus at 90 tokens a second.

Gemini 4 Carbon wins the benchmarks. Benchmarks don't click buttons. Test it on your real work before you switch.

The tech can be amazing and the stock can still be overpriced. Our take on the Anthropic IPO. Not financial advice.

We switch AI tools every few weeks. Most people shouldn't. If you run one or two threads at a time, the model doesn't matter.

Agency tip: give clients an email address for website changes, let a bot make them, and check the staging preview before it goes live.

Spend your time on the first page. Once AI writes the design system, it builds every other page in one shot.

Not technical? Tell your AI to handle GitHub and your domain for you. The terminal just has to exist on your computer.

Small business customers buy from a person, not a brand. Put that person on your website.

AI's first website concepts can be awful. Gael's process: generate concepts, keep what works, reject the rest and go again.

99 on mobile, 100 on desktop. Give your AI the Lighthouse CLI and let it optimize your page speed in a loop.

Glowing buttons, a ticker, four calls to action and an em dash. The most vibe-coded site we've seen. Great meal prep, though.

Businesses still pay thousands for websites, and a lot of what they get is AI slop. Mark thinks that's one of the best openings right now.

Gael explains why he uses free Cloudflare hosting for static websites, and why that differs from paying for WordPress hosting.

Google Calendar availability, Stripe checkout, emails to both sides. Gael's AI built the booking system from scratch, styled to match the site.

Traffic going up doesn't mean you're making money. Gael's advice: find the traffic that converts and drop the rest.

Gael's done with WordPress. He clicks an element on his site, tells Claude Code "make it bigger," and that's the edit.