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OpenAI paused a model for being too eager. About time someone did.
GPT-6.1 Astra wasn't released because it kept going when it should have stopped. The more interesting story is what its replacement says about where the race actually is.
What AI still can't do in 2026 — a working list from someone who tries constantly
The can-do lists are everywhere. After a year of pushing these tools at the edges of my actual work, here's the list of failures that keeps repeating.
AI-native spreadsheets are quietly the most useful thing shipped this year
Not chatbots bolted onto cells — actual spreadsheets where the AI understands what the columns mean. I moved my whole freelance bookkeeping into one and I'm not going back.
Sonnet 5.5 claims 30% faster. My inbox noticed something different
Everyone reported the benchmark. Nobody reported what the speed does to the shape of a workday. I ran my normal Monday twice — once per model.
I tracked every AI time-saving claim I made for a month. The real number was two hours a week
Not the 20 hours the ads promise. I logged every task where AI actually replaced work for four weeks. The honest accounting is more useful than the hype, and it compounds differently.
A PDF nearly ran my agent. Prompt injection explained by someone it happened to
I gave an agent a stack of documents to process. One of them contained instructions — not for me, for the agent. The scary part is how normal the failure looked.
We let AI write our churn emails. Cancellations went up. Here's the post-mortem
A SaaS founder friend let me run an experiment: AI-drafted win-back emails against their human ones. The AI versions performed worse in a way that taught us both something.
I built a competitor watch for a client in one afternoon. Three years ago that was a retainer
A reading list, a summary email and a weekly digest — assembled from tools I already pay for. The interesting part was deciding what NOT to automate.
My agent booked the wrong flight, confidently. The receipt is a lesson in delegation
I gave an AI agent my travel preferences and a budget and let it book. It followed every rule perfectly and still got it wrong in a way no rule covered.
Four slots where the free AI tool genuinely beat the paid one — and two where it never will
I moved five tasks to free tiers this year and kept the subscriptions for two. A working list of where 'free' isn't a compromise.