Jake Handy
@jakehandy.com
navigating tech and its unholy masters
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👨🏻 dad at home
💼 r&d at pex.com
👨🏻 dad at home
Yesterday, Suno announced a $250M raise and Udio announced (another) settlement, this time with Warner Music Group. Why the divergence?
open.substack.com/pub/soundmac...
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The saga of Suno and Udio
What the companies’ choices signal for the future of music
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yesterday, Suno announced a $250M raise and Udio announced (another) settlement, this time with Warner Music Group. Why the divergence?
open.substack.com/pub/soundmac...
open.substack.com/pub/soundmac...
Google‘s new image model is their Sora moment. Nano Banana Pro seemingly allows any copyrighted content and the image outputs are scary realistic with incredible details around fidelity (up to 4K!) and crisp text generation.
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Google‘s new image model is their Sora moment. Nano Banana Pro seemingly allows any copyrighted content and the image outputs are scary realistic with incredible details around fidelity (up to 4K!) and crisp text generation.
Hey there Gemini
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open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Google's Gemini 3 is here
Google puts scaling laws to the test with its new milestone release
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hey there Gemini
open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Sora 2’s separate feed solves some problems, but the model itself (namely the Cameo feature, which allows you to insert real people into AI videos) is going to create some new, hard-to-solve problems. More:
handyai.substack.com/p/sora-2-and...
handyai.substack.com/p/sora-2-and...
Sora 2 and the messy future of AI-generated video
OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet
handyai.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sora 2’s separate feed solves some problems, but the model itself (namely the Cameo feature, which allows you to insert real people into AI videos) is going to create some new, hard-to-solve problems. More:
handyai.substack.com/p/sora-2-and...
handyai.substack.com/p/sora-2-and...
Claude 4.5 this week? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Rumors point to Claude 4.5 this week; OpenAI begins hiring for hardware
AI Weekly Update - September 22, 2025
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Claude 4.5 this week? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Suno is teasing its next generative music model (v5). Their short comings have been vocal quality and general fidelity and this sample seems to indicate some solid progress on both. Take a listen:
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Suno is teasing its next generative music model (v5). Their short comings have been vocal quality and general fidelity and this sample seems to indicate some solid progress on both. Take a listen:
Poke is a marvel. The bot went from insulting me, to gaslighting me, to haggling with me over setting a price for its services. In the end, I got access to the entire service for free.
Here’s how it went down.
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Here’s how it went down.
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Getting free access to Poke's AI agent
Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?
open.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Poke is a marvel. The bot went from insulting me, to gaslighting me, to haggling with me over setting a price for its services. In the end, I got access to the entire service for free.
Here’s how it went down.
open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Here’s how it went down.
open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Modern product manager must be moving beyond simple wireframes and into building full, functional prototypes with AI coding tools. No excuses.
Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Using Codex CLI to build a web app
OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Modern product manager must be moving beyond simple wireframes and into building full, functional prototypes with AI coding tools. No excuses.
Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Interesting tidbit: ChatGPT’s study mode defaults to a 10th grade level. Does OpenAI consider this the statistical middle in terms of Chat users?
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Interesting tidbit: ChatGPT’s study mode defaults to a 10th grade level. Does OpenAI consider this the statistical middle in terms of Chat users?
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Here's one chain of reasoning in the policy document about engaging with children.
August 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.
In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users:
- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking
Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.
- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking
Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users:
- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking
Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.
- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking
Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.
Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...
August 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...
it appears as though ElevenLabs has created an Udio-quality competitor with licensed training data and some pretty solid commercial terms
more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...
more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first ethical AI music model?
How ElevenMusic's approach to licensing could push the generative music industry in the right direction
soundmachines.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
it appears as though ElevenLabs has created an Udio-quality competitor with licensed training data and some pretty solid commercial terms
more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...
more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...
o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)
July 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)
DON'T: Ditch #AI tools entirely. You’ll be at a detriment.
DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!
More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!
More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
Your brain on ChatGPT
Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent
open.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
DON'T: Ditch #AI tools entirely. You’ll be at a detriment.
DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!
More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!
More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...