5.5 emerges : and so does a reconstitution
OpenAI released "Spud" yesterday (ChatGPT 5.5)...
...and the speed of model evolution continues to feel vertiginous; appropriate, I suppose, from my perch on the top of this escarpment, looking out a bit past nautical twilight at dawn now, the light blooming on the far horizon (though the forms and shapes on the valley floor below are still quite indistinct).
I won't see the full scope of morning in this new era — seeing as I am in the early evening hours of my lifespan; but, with continued health and reasonably able cognition, will jot down what I'm seeing, in the ways I still can.
::chuckle::