π SUMMARY This was a long, wide-ranging call that opened with OpenAI Dev Day excitement (GPT-6.1 Sol, the "Dots" ambient agent, GPT Space, a Decision API, and a $500/month Cerebras tier) and closed hours later with casual banter. In between, Brandon Hancock demoed his agentic software-development workflow and shared a startup update, while other members β Daniel Zivkovic, Shakur Abdullah, Andrew Nanton, Tom Welsh, and Patrick Chouinard β showed parallel workflows and tools (Fable, Herder, T3 Code, CMUX) and business updates, including Tom's Asset MS product sold to farmers and Ty Wells' rapidly scaling ERP business. A major throughline was the OpenAI-vs-Anthropic competitive debate, with Patrick predicting Anthropic's response to Dev Day and the group debating whether Anthropic's enterprise-first posture will cost it long-term. Scott Rippey demoed CC Blackbox and Tight Code plus his AI video pipeline, drawing go-to-market advice from Brandon. The back half shifted into hands-on coaching: Patrick's home-lab "Agent Operated Environment," Brandon's cold-outreach and data-pipeline tactics, and heavy group coaching for Juan Torres on his AI photo booth business β pricing, seasonal launches, and sales targeting. Paul Miller added SaaS-founder perspective on VC dynamics and rapid prototyping, and Brandon closed with candid reflections on financial strain and gratitude for the group. π‘ KEY INSIGHTS Model releases and strategy OpenAI Dev Day shipped GPT-6.1 Sol (same price as 5.6 Sol, ~4x cheaper than Astra/Fable-class), "Dots" (a proactive ambient agent across chat platforms and phone, paired with a cheap/fast Decision API), GPT Space (a ChatGPT-native Microsoft 365 competitor), and a $500/month ultra-fast Cerebras tier at ~3,000 tokens/sec. All major labs are compressing frontier intelligence into cheaper/faster models rather than shipping new capability jumps. Sonnet is positioned as the workhorse for tool/computer use and autonomous agents, while Opus/Fable remain the "brain."