GPT-5 Thinking Mode + One-Sentence iOS Apps

"GPT-5 Thinking Mode spent 47 seconds contemplating my code before responding 'Have you considered a different career?'"

What's up builders 👋

OpenAI just dropped speed controls for GPT-5 Thinking Mode, someone built an iOS app generator that works with ONE sentence, and Meta unveiled AI glasses that might actually replace your phone. Meanwhile, the vibe coding community is having an existential crisis about whether you can "vibe learn" your way to expertise (spoiler: you can't).

Today's newsletter is packed with tools that'll help you ship faster, tutorials to level up your AI coding game, and some spicy takes on where this whole AI builder movement is headed. Let's dive in.

OpenAI's GPT-5 Thinking Mode Gets Speed Controls - The biggest complaint about GPT-5's reasoning model just got addressed. Plus, Pro, and Business users can now adjust the thinking speed to match their needs. No more waiting 2 minutes for the model to contemplate whether your variable should be named 'data' or 'userData'.

Why this matters: We're finally getting granular control over AI reasoning depth. Need a quick code review? Set it to fast. Debugging a complex distributed system? Let it think deeply. This fundamentally changes how we interact with AI assistants - you can now trade accuracy for speed based on your actual needs. Expect this pattern to show up everywhere: Cursor, Cline, and other tools will likely follow suit.

The real game-changer here is that OpenAI is acknowledging different use cases need different reasoning depths. Your midnight hotfix doesn't need the same contemplation as your core architecture decisions. This is the beginning of context-aware AI assistance that actually understands urgency.

• Rork iOS App Builder - Build complete iOS apps with a single sentence using GPT-5. Just describe what you want and it handles design, logic, and deployment

• K-Dense AI Scientist - Multi-agent AI system that already made a discovery in aging research. Not just analyzing data - actually doing science

• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Generation - Google AI SDK now supports image generation and editing with natural language. Use generateText or streamText functions directly

• Skydio R10 Indoor Drone - AI-powered indoor drone for dangerous spaces. Autonomous navigation with computer vision

• Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses - AI glasses with built-in display controlled by neural band that reads muscle signals

• SentientAGI ROMA Framework - Horizontal AI OS blueprint with general delegation to specialized agents

• Macroscope Launch - Ex-Twitter product head launches AI tool for codebase understanding and bug fixing

• LLM Embeddings Visual Guide - Step-by-step visual explanation of semantic representation, dimensionality, and what makes good embeddings

• Microsoft's Free AI Agents Course - Official beginner course covering agent architectures, tool use, and practical implementation

• Rapid Chatbot Prototyping - End-to-end demos comparing Streamlit vs Chainlit with practical recommendations

• 5 Tips for Streamlit Dashboards - Build useful dashboards in minutes with caching, layout optimization, and component reuse

• ChatGPT Prompt for Clear Answers - Viral Reddit prompt technique that makes ChatGPT give accurate, to-the-point responses

• Vibe Coding vs Real Learning - Reality check: "Your code can be vibe coded, but you can't vibe learn your way through. You need long hours of hard work to actually learn"

• Don't Over-Message AI Models - Lovable founder's PSA: Stop asking AI for minor CSS fixes. Learn where the code lives and paste changes directly

• Ultimate 2-Week SaaS Stack - Cursor + Next.js + Node + Railway + Firebase + Stripe + Claude/GPT-5 for rapid shipping

• Cursor's 8 Green Checkmarks - That magical moment when Cursor gives you all green checks. Peak vibe coding satisfaction

• OpenAI Solves ICPC World Finals - AI models solved all 12 problems at the world's top university programming competition

• OpenAI Research on AI Deception - Found behaviors consistent with scheming in frontier models, testing ways to reduce it

• Claude Infrastructure Postmortem - Detailed analysis of three bugs affecting Claude between August and September

• AI Artist Signs $3M Record Deal - Xania Monet, an AI persona, charting on Billboard. Shows monetization potential of AI creative tools

• Meta Connect 2025 Announcements - Six major reveals including AR glasses, neural interfaces, and developer platforms

• Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialist Jobs - New job category emerging for cleaning up AI-generated code

• v0 Parallax Effect Project - Create parallax effects from single images using v0 and fal workflow. Perfect for landing pages

• OpenAI Brand Exploration Concepts - Leaked 2023 design concepts for OpenAI and ChatGPT branding with Sam Altman

• CBN MCP Implementation - Example of domain-specific MCP server for regulatory data. Template for building your own MCP servers

• Mark Zuckerberg interview on AI glasses replacing phones

• AI models getting "dumber" throughout the day - new testing tool

Here's the wild part: we're watching the birth of an entirely new job category - "Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialist." Forbes just wrote about it. These are developers who specialize in fixing the beautiful disasters that AI coders create. It's like being a translator between drunk genius and production code.

The irony? The best cleanup specialists are the ones who vibe code themselves. They understand both the chaos and the method. They're the designated drivers of the AI coding revolution.

What are you building this week? Hit reply and tell me about your latest vibe coding adventure - bonus points if it involves asking Claude to fix Claude's own code.

Keep shipping,

P.S. - Heard someone say "I don't debug anymore, I just regenerate until it works." Sir, that's not vibe coding, that's digital gambling. The house always wins, and the house is your LLM bill.