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GPT-5.6 joins Kiro for spec-driven coding work
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models are now available in AWS's Kiro coding agent, pairing the model family with requirements, design documents, task plans and review checkpoints.
· Ethan Brooks · 8 min readMeasure coding-agent cost by the accepted change—not the token
OpenAI's Kiro announcement makes a large cost claim for one benchmark. Teams need a reproducible method that includes retries, tests and human review before choosing an agent.
· Ethan Brooks · 10 min readGPT-5.6 arrives across ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API
OpenAI's July flagship release brings one model family to consumer chat, coding agents and the API, followed by substantial price cuts for its Luna and Terra variants.
· Ravi Kapoor · 7 min readChatGPT Work turns OpenAI's chatbot into a long-running work agent
ChatGPT Work can act across apps and files, break goals into steps and stay with a project for hours, pushing ChatGPT further from answer engine to execution layer.
· Linh Nguyen · 7 min readCoding agents just crossed into the design canvas
Figma’s new agent workflow lets tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor work with native canvas objects and design-system rules. The handoff between design and code is becoming a shared workspace.
· Ethan Brooks · 7 min read