The last post about AI that I wrote was about GitHub Copilot moving to AI credits, rather than their prior model of something akin to per prompt billing. That was in May, and to be honest, through June, July and August, not much seemed to change for me in the landscape for my productive working hours. (Various things changed and happened in my periphery that I might be able to explore in my personal time).
However September and October really saw another wave of changes that actually lead to impact during my working hours. From the new wave of GPT 6 6.1 models, to the OpenAI dots, and our increasing internal usage of Notion AI for our new internal knowledge base and task tracking, I’m seeing myself rambling on to various LLMs day in day out, and leaving more and more for them to do in the background, vs following along closely with for all of the steps (being an avid GitHub Copilot user before this).
The tides have turned, and I primarily use Codex these days as part of VsCode. With Copilot, the only model that I seem to be able to gel with well and make productive for my usage right now is GPT 5.6 Terra, auto always selects something that seems to take too much time, or perform poorly, meanwhile Codex seems to generally just get shit done, without needing so much human interaction. I imagine I’ll continue using GitHub Copilot for more hand holdy type tasks, and also for “code review” and some basic coding tasks within GitHub Copilot Cloud.
Where the “power” is really coming from in my working day now is having an AI accessible and curatable knowledge base and task tracking system, IDE integration, and consistent chat and context experiences across devices. Along with my first dot, called Bob…
Bob (the Dot)
An OpenAI dot is an always-on, autonomous AI agent inside ChatGPT powered by GPT-6 Astra. I have no doubt that some folks home hosted LLM setups come close to this sort of thing (only with arguably less effective and likely slower models), however for a working setup having this as an off the shelf product is mighty powerful.