Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

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We Tested GPT 5.6 Sol Early

Explore episode Jul 9, 2026
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How to Really Use These Models: Go Wider, Not Just Harder

We Tested GPT 5.6 Sol Early · Jul 9, 2026 Technology

To unlock 5.6's full potential, stop handing it tasks at the midpoint. Go two steps earlier in your workflow — let it think about the problem — and two steps later — have it spin up the app, adversarially review its own work, respond to PR comments, and merge itself. The model does all of it.

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Giving the Model Your Psychosis: agents.md Experiments

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The episode takes its most memorable turn here as Ben confesses to a late-night experiment: he copy-pasted chunks of the Destiny universe's lore into a project's agents.md, ran the model with Groq subagents fighting each other alongside the main 5.6 instance, and got surprisingly good results. The UI outputs had genuine personality — custom SVG diagrams, interesting animations, and non-generic flow — precisely because the prompt was so far out of distribution. He then took the concept seriously, spending an entire night in deep dialogue with Claude Code, sending five paragraphs back and forth until 9am, building a coherent internal tooling aesthetic he describes as 'cursed but functional.' Theo summarizes the philosophy: to escape generic LLM outputs, you need to give the model your psychosis. He closes the segment by joking that this is exactly how humanity gets wiped out — by showing the models Terminator to see how they behave.

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