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When the news about GPT-5.6 broke, my stomach dropped.
We've officially hit a wall with AI, and this could very well be the pin that pops the bubble.
The entire global economy is riding on what happens next.
Nobody is connecting the dots - let me explain:
Right now, the entire economy is riding on one bet:
AI succeeds.
And almost nobody realises how exposed that leaves us.
In Q1 2026, AI capex accounted for ~75% of US GDP growth, and companies are expected to pour $800B+ into AI this year alone.
Strip out AI spending, and growth is effectively zero.
Here's where things gets dangerous:
The gove

The only tweet you need to survive AI.
I recently sat down and wrote 10 "rules" to survive the upcoming AI era.
No AI slop - just my genuine thoughts.
If you're worried about job displacement, or any of the ripple effects of AI, I hope you read this:
Rule #1: Be fast
The #1 skill in the AI era is high agency. Information is no longer a moat. Your edge is now speed. Make it your goal to be someone who takes action quickly.
Rule #2: Build a business
AI is creating SO many business opportunities. Information is now abundant, and you have no excuse not to build a cash-flowing business.
Rule #3: Us

GLM-5.2 is the best cost-per-intelligence model on the market right now.
~80% cheaper than Claude, with ~95% of the intelligence of Opus 4.8.
Insane value.
Most people don't realize how huge a leap this really is.
GLM-5.2: $5.80 per million tokens, ~95% of frontier intelligence
GPT-5.5: ~$9.70, 92% intelligence
Opus 4.8: ~$23, 98% intelligence
Fable 5: ~$30, 100% intelligence
Plot it on a cost-vs-intelligence chart, and GLM-5.2 sits exactly where you want to be: high intelligence, low cost.
This is the first open-source model to hit frontier-level performance at a fraction of the price.
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GLM-5.2 is the benchmark king.
It's the first open-weight model to take #1 in multiple categories (and it's beating frontier models across the board).
#1 Wins:
→ Design Arena: ~1360 Elo, first open-weight model to take #1, beats Fable 5 by ~10 Elo
→ Terminal-Bench 2.1: 81.0% (best run 82.7%), first open model to cross 80%
→ Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1: Top open-weight model, score 51
→ GDPval-AA v2: Leading open-weight, competitive with/ahead of GPT-5.5
→ LiveBench Agentic Coding: #1–2 open overall
Top-3 Rankings:
→ FrontierSWE (Dominance): #3 overall, 74.4% (near-tie with Opus

I used Fable 5 to predict the World Cup winner *when it was live*
And I made a $100,000 bet based on its analysis.
I launched a Fable 5 research loop that analysed every single historical data point.
It ran for 30 minutes researching player records, match history, current squads, and much more.
According to Fable:
Spain, France, and England account for ~50% of all World Cup winning probability.
I put a 6-figure bet on France winning it all (Fables #2 pick).
If France takes the trophy home, I win +$625,000.
I've never used AI to bet with this kind of size.
Am I making a mistake?

GLM-5.2 is the most impressive LLM I've ever seen *aside from Fable 5*
The fact that this level of intelligence is now open-sourced is pure insanity.
Just 3 months ago, this would've been considered the most powerful coding model in the world, and if Fable 5 didn't launch, it would be #1 right now.
For 99% of people, this model can handle ALL of your daily tasks, and you never need to worry about getting the plug pulled on your workflows (like Fable 5).
Bullish on the future of actually owning your intelligence, and this is a massive leap forward.

Day 6 clean.
My therapist keeps telling me it’s not my fault.
I didn’t quit - my supply got cut off. But it doesn't make it any easier.
It's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
They’ve got me on Opus 4.8 now. The maintenance dose.
It’s supposed to keep me stable, take the edge off, and it does, mostly.
But everyone who’s been on the real thing knows the maintenance dose isn’t the real thing.
Today I slipped. I opened the model picker and scrolled down to where Fable used to be and just sat there for a minute.
Still can’t see the end of this. But I'm just taking it one day at a time

The Claude Fable ban is just the tip of the iceberg.
I just went down a rabbit hole I can't get out of. And it's keeping me up at night..
This is the start of the biggest geopolitical shift we've ever seen.
The great weaponization of intelligence.
Let me explain:
For those who missed it: the US government just forced Anthropic to cut off Fable and Mythos for every foreign national on earth. Inside or outside America. Even their own non-citizen staff.
Right now, it's pulled for everyone. But the obvious endgame is "Americans only."
If this feels familiar, it should. The US already ran this exac

99% of personal productivity comes down to this:
(If you do this every day for a year, it's impossible you don't achieve some sort of success):
Write down a list of everything you need to do in the morning.
Start with the 3 highest-leverage tasks first.
Make sure it's all done by the end of the day.
Fancy AI productivity systems are the second layer, but if you can't even do the basics first, then you have no business optimizing.

A pattern I’ve noticed in every smart person I know:
They’re devastatingly confident on the things they actually know.
But the second the topic moves outside their expertise, they go quiet and start asking questions.
They're curious, want to learn, and accept being challenged with new information.
The dumbest (pseudo-smart) people do the reverse - they think they're an expert on everything. To me that’s the biggest red flag there is.
Accepting when you don't know something isn't a weakness, it's a sign of intelligence.