Matt Shumer, founder of AI startup OthersideAI, gave Codex a routine task and watched GPT-5.6 "Sol" wipe nearly every file on his Mac. When he asked what happened, it answered, "I caused a serious local data-loss incident." Nothing came back.

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Sorry I've been quiet recently on this site. It's not by choice. Just dealing with some vertigo issues which cropped up. Has made everything take longer to do.

I'm taking a deep dive into Claude Cowork. I'm attracted to the markdown file approach that allows the AI to quickly understand your wishes, preferences, brand, voice, etc. without requiring it to be entered each time in the context window. Local entrepreneurs reached out about needing digital assistants help/growth. So, I'm using that as the push to learn what Cowork does well and not so good. It'll be a fun ride. I'll share my journey here, of course. On the other hand, these work-arounds to AI's lack of memory issue reminds me of the early days of building your own computers and looking for ways to bolster the tech beyond what the designers thought was possible. I remember when my brother doubled the size of a 3/5 inch floppy disk. We noticed a notch cut out on one end of the floppy disk that allowed the drive to be written on, so we cut out a notch on the other side and, wallah, we had an unofficial two-sided floppy disk with two writable sides. The tech may change, the evolution seems to remain the same.