I test AI tools so you don’t have to.

OpenAI in summer 2026: GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, Sora's end

What happened at OpenAI from May to September — GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, Codex, Atlas and Sora shut down, IPO, exec exits. Plus Google, Apple, EU AI Act.

New hero: a WebGL shader, an agent console and Opus 5

After four months off I pushed the homepage further: a living dot field in one fragment shader and a terminal whose output is real articles. How it works.

The Dorian Gray Listing and Schrödinger's Price: a night with an AI used-car investigator

I built two Claudes in a pair — one scrapes, the other tears it apart in a real Chrome via DevTools MCP. Self-hosted search engine in Docker instead of paid APIs. Here's what they found the first night.

Web scraping in 2026: a practical guide and where AI changes it

What scrapers and crawlers actually do, how to do it well in 2026, how to handle anti-bot defenses, legal questions — and how LLMs like Claude are changing data extraction.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's most widely used AI chatbot — GPT-6 Astra, unlimited free chats, ChatGPT Work and Codex. Where it excels and where it lags behind Claude.

Free / Go $8/month / Plus $20/month / Pro $100 or $200/month / API from $1/1M tokens (GPT-5.6 Luna)

Claude

The most accurate AI assistant on the market — Fable 5.1, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 with 1M context, adaptive thinking and Claude Code for developers.

Free (limited) / Pro $20/month / Max from $100/month / Team from $25/month / API from $1/1M tokens (Haiku 4.5)

Cursor

AI-first editor built on VS Code — integrated chat, inline edits and Composer for code generation. The best IDE for AI-assisted development.

Hobby free (2000 completions) / Pro $20/month / Business $40/month

DALL-E 3

OpenAI image generator integrated in ChatGPT — the easiest way to generate images, but behind Midjourney on quality.

Part of ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) / API $0.04-0.12 per image