Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 29/09/2026Not sure if anyone else feels this way, but Opus 5.5 feels like a massive massive leap to me. Much larger than any of the previous leaps. It's a wild experience. We spend a few months learning the edges of the best models, then all the sudden BAM - basically nothing seems impossible. 110
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 24/09/2026I find the Claude Code CLI just so much more delightful to use than the Codex CLI after all this time. Opus 5.5 being so good just feels like setting back into a comfy chair. Well done Anthropic. 070
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 24/09/2026I really wish the labs wouldn't rush out releases just to have something on the same day the other lab does. I'm not loving GPT-6 Sol right now honestly. Today it - ignored the workflow instructions and came up with its own (not useful) format for the feature scope discussion 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 15/09/2026Golfers. Hear me out. New competitive format (any skill level, although probably best in hcp flights) I personally think this would be super fun, and as a former Lacrosse player would really scratch my competitive team sport itch. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 14/09/2026Dark Matter S2 is some of the best TV I’ve ever watched. S1 was great but having read the book I already knew what was going to happen. Obviously with S2 I get to be surprised every episode and it’s fantastic. 200
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 13/09/2026Naming products has always been hard but it’s become basically a millennium prize level challenge now that software creation is so easy. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 10/09/2026i’ll be in SF tomorrow for @lennysan’s summit if any of my fellow product nerds are around to meet up and say hi! DM me! 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 08/09/2026My 9yo daughter just told me she wants to be the CEO of a space tech company when she grows up. The feels. 011
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 06/09/2026I know I’m late to the game but Grok Bot is really an incredible product. I never got into OpenClaw or Hermes just because of setup/maintenance overhead. I am already building my own agent products I don’t need to spelunk someone else’s. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 04/09/2026I've been working on making @spectrebuild's plan workflow a more obvious to "reach for" over Claude Code and Codex's native plan tool. Today finally got around to doing a bakeoff. 110
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 28/08/2026I think we are already at the point where self improving software is possible. All the pieces are there. Right now you just have to cleverly engineer your own system to make it possible. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 27/08/2026I've been golfing a lot less this year but having more fun than ever,. I just have to share the simple method/approach I've been using because I'm genuinely having a fun time playing. - My average score is 103ish according to 18 Birdies, l think like 21/22 hcp. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 27/08/2026I spent about zero cycles on optimizing these instructions, but they've made Opus 5.0 usable for me. Still too verbose and the claudisms are there just more subtle, but I personally feel no need to tweak this right now (and I'm not going to). gist.github.com/joenandez/4...gist.github.comSpeak like a normal human please robotSpeak like a normal human please robot. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 26/08/20260x Alpha was fantastic, but the best part is it took pressure off my Codex and Claude Code usage for a week. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 18/08/2026Wrote a little bit about my journey in product and how this era with AI feels like the universe served up catharsis on a silver platter. ansibleblog.substack.com/p/snap?r=2l...ansibleblog.substack.comSnapA little story about my journey to product builder. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 18/08/2026Make it work, make it right, make it fast. Front and center at my desk. Never fails. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 16/08/2026Grok Bot looks really impressive. They’ve exactly keyed off of all the things people gravitated to OpenClaw because of, with none of the complexity. Whoever builds the model/agent agnostic version of Grok Bot will kill. 010
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 14/08/2026Massive updates to my agentic engineering workflow Spectre (free, open source plugin for Claude Code & Codex). Github 🔗 below - your ⭐️ would be much appreciated! Here are the big updates: 120
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 11/08/2026Seems to be a rush to figure out multiplayer AI, so unpopular opinion: AI is single-player, not multiplayer. Tasks, notes/docs, chat, email became multiplayer because human coordination was what made the work … work. 110
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 08/08/2026What’s the over under on % on fantasy football teams this year whose owners just let their AI completely manage for them. I wouldn’t do that personally but also I guarantee any of these top models would be 1000x better than me at it. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 06/08/2026Dungeon Crawler Crawl would be absolutely next level with an interactive experience that showed Carls stats, a 3D map of the floor, ability to explore his inventory and that of his team, and his current quest and mission status. And boss stats. Driven completely by the story as you read/listen 120
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 04/08/2026I find Opus 5.0 so unbelievable cringe to work with. "The answer is not what you expect, and the why *matters*" I can't imagine the folks at Anthropic actually enjoy using this model. My Claude .md actively tries to get it to not use this kind of phrasing, but it just can't help itself. 101
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 04/08/2026Graph Engineering is just a just building workflows that run workflows. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 31/07/2026Quick update on @SubspaceHQ I've decided to switch to maintenance mode going forward. With the latest release, Subspace is now Free, and I've refunded our existing annual and monthly subs. I'm going to take a pause and start exploring what's next for me and the direction of my career. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 12/07/2026Blink 182’s California album with John Feldman and Matt Skiba (and not Tom DeLonge) was their best album since Enema of the State IMO. I love Feldman’s work. Goldfinger and his stuff with The Used was just genius. open.spotify.com/track/12YGK...open.spotify.comBored to Deathblink-182 · California (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 2016 010
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 25/06/2026I used GLM 5.2 all day (~$100 via openrouter) - very impressed. ++ great root causing some hard perf issues + clear comms, straight to the point (vs Opus verbosity) + good UX/UI < Opus, > Codex +/- very thorough (sometimes too? burned tokens trying to fix a flaky test) 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 24/06/2026I listen to/watch all of @clairevo’s How I AI podcasts but this one on using GLM 5.2 is a must watch if you are using Claude Code/Codex/Cursor and are battling with rate limits and costs (🙋♂️) 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 24/06/2026We've been through enough of these cycles to know now when people start getting excited about an open source coding model (deepseek, kimi, now glm 5.2) you know we're about to get some major upgrades on the frontier model side. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 23/06/2026Hit Codex weekly rate limit yesterday AM. Man am I feeling it. IMO, Opus 4.8 is just not even in the same ballpark. Hoping Anthropic's rumored Sonnet 5 release is really strong. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 21/06/2026Any AI obsessed PMs or any of my friends/former colleagues down for a nerdy chat about AI/Agents and how PM is evolving? Looking to chat with a bunch of folks this week - for fun, to reconnect, to vent, to get feedback on something you’re tinkering with - anything! DMs/email open! 010
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 21/06/2026Super interesting episode on “Free Range AI Consultant”. As I mentioned in my recent posts seems like the gap between what the most AI pilled know and can do and what normal humans know and can do with AI is massive. I imagine that will be a big problem worth building a biz around for 5-10 yrs 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 19/06/2026Life is just a lot more interesting if you look at any seemingly dumb thing in the world and ask yourself "if the person who made this decision was actually very smart, why would they have made this decision?". 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 19/06/2026I honestly didn't believe hardware + local AI was going to be THAT big of a deal but now I get it. You can only get that much better for most tasks from Fable, so local model on your own hardware -- will be massive. Very bullish now. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 19/06/2026My other key takeaway from Fable. If I (as AI pilled as one can get) am getting as much value from the previous gen models to the point that using the upgrade for most normal work doesn’t make that much sense ... Hard to imagine what even better models will be used for by normal humans. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 19/06/2026I feel like there is a really big gap in the market for a product that can tell you if any of the cool skills that keep coming out actually improve the speed + quality + token-efficiency of your results. github.com/DietrichGeb...github.comGitHub - DietrichGebert/ponytail: Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. - DietrichGebert/ponytail 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 18/06/2026It really is funny how much better Claude Code is at design than Codex. I've tried enough times to know it is definitely not a fluke thing. Add it to the pile of reasons you should really be using both these agents not silo'ing yourself in one. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 17/06/2026I’m really glad Anthropic seems to be revisiting their stance on SDK and Claude -p usage. Cautiously optimistic they realized they should be encouraging such such use. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 16/06/2026Being in my bubble it's pretty wild chatting with friends/colleagues/neighbors about how slow AI adoption is even at companies you'd think would be packed with AI pilled engineers. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 16/06/2026This is what has been really hard about Subspace lately. Retention & conversion are good/great. Early paid growth experiments were promising, but not worth it yet. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 15/06/2026One of the most annoying Opus 4.8 things Me: "we need to do X, let's play on using Y following the same approach as Z" 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 15/06/2026Custom Autocomplete UI for files, skills, mcps, shell commands, etc. was one of the first features I built into Subspace from the earliest days. I improve it constantly. It has gotten really really good, and fast. Here's one very obvious example (video) of how much better it is 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 14/06/2026Idk maybe just me but between the World Cup and the Knicks and the beautiful PNW weather lately just feels like everyone wants to be out, be seen, be in community lately. Feels like we may finally be healing post pandemic. 010
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 14/06/2026Loved this episode with Mark Pincus founder of Zynga. Really resonated with the challenge that “better” for founders/product folks is often actually “new”, which requires way more thought and experimentation. Have a feeling I will absolutely devour this book. open.spotify.com/episode/27A...open.spotify.comThe hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (Founder of Zynga)Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Episode 110
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 13/06/2026Proactive Agents are how products start to build themselves. The mistake is thinking it’s one agent. It’s not - it’s dozens, each with narrow responsibilities, each with a system designed to enforce quality and human-in-the-loop in the right spots. 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 13/06/2026My takeaway from the craziness with Anthropic and the US Govt right now. We need better Open Source models in the US. Meta and increasingly xAI/Cursor generate significant revenue from adjacent businesses, would love to see them take on this important role. 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 12/06/2026One of those 'living in the future moments' - Had a question about Subspace I couldn't answer - Had an agent add the necessary instrumentation - Scheduled that same agent to review the data starting 7 days from then - 7 days later got an email with the complete analysis 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 12/06/2026Fable is a pretty amazing model. Its expensive, chews through usage, and soon will be at API prices only. I think as models become smarter and the old models become "good enough" for the vast majority of daily tasks, it will finally become much much more obvious when to use certain agents/models 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 10/06/2026The biggest story of the new Siri is the impact it will have on ChatGPT and Claude consumer subs. Why would anyone pay $240 per year min, or $0 w/ads for something not integrated with their phone/apps when they get all of that and more for free with an iPhone. No wonder OpenAI is all in on Codex 000
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 24/05/2026Shipped a few quick QoL updates to SPECTRE - light mode plan so you can use /spectre-plan for any task - /spectre:plan now 2 gates (high level design + final) instead of 4. Less friction, better results. 🚀 repo 🔗 below 100
Joe Fernandez @joenandez.com · 24/05/2026You give an agent a goal. It pursues the goal proactively, brings you the decisions that you and the agent decide are worth your judgment, and competes for your attention. You own the gates, it owns the motion. Agent pursues, Human approves. 000