Vibe Dilettante Notes
Two weeks have passed, I haven't written anything, I haven't had time, and I've been working on one of the projects :)
A lot of interesting things have happened in these two weeks.
AI News
Anthropic CEO: "Coding will change in 6-12 months" (January 24, 2026)
Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) made a significant statement: according to his predictions, within a year, AI will take over a large part of the coding tasks, leaving people with the role of "architects" and reviewers. This coincides with the release of their new "AI Constitution," which teaches the model not just to execute commands, but to reason about the context of the task.
Anthropic CEO Says AI Could Replace Software Engineers in 6 to 12 Months
OpenAI Prism Launch (January 27, 2026)
OpenAI has introduced Prism, a specialized workspace for scientists. The tool is based on GPT-5.2, supports LaTeX, data visualization, and is designed to automate the writing of scientific articles.
OpenAI Launches Prism, AI Workspace for Scientific Research
NVIDIA Cosmos Policy (January 30, 2026)
Following the announcement of the platform at CES earlier this month, NVIDIA presented Cosmos Policy. This is a new "world model" for physical AI, which allows robots to learn complex manipulations (e.g., handling fragile objects) without writing thousands of lines of code.
NVIDIA Cosmos Policy
OpenAI Preparing for IPO (January 30, 2026)
According to WSJ and other financial publications, OpenAI plans to go public in the fourth quarter of 2026. In a new round of investment, the company may raise up to $100 billion from SoftBank and Amazon, which would increase its valuation to $830 billion.
OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter IPO in Race to Beat Anthropic to Market
New Anthropic Round (January 27, 2026)
Information has emerged about Anthropic closing a round of more than $10 billion, as a result of which the valuation of OpenAI's competitor reached $350 billion.
TechBuzz — Anthropic Closes $10B+ Round
ServiceNow and Anthropic Deal (January 28, 2026)
ServiceNow has chosen Claude as the base model for its Build Agent and has made Claude Code available to all its engineers.
AI Business — ServiceNow and Anthropic Deal
Now for the personal stuff :)
Renovation
AI is almost useless here.
Ventilation Installation Completed
This HELL has finally ended. More than a month was lost :( These (bad) people were so successful in driving me crazy that I was almost ready to send them (far away). But the problem was that the materials were not fully delivered, but they were already paid for. As a result, everything was delivered only after the holidays. Fortunately, installers were found and were able to quickly get to the site.
In short, this stage is over, and everything even works :)
Current Status
- Partitions and walls are in place, plastered.
- Soundproofing from neighbors is installed.
- Acoustic panels and vibration-damping hangers have been installed on the ceilings.
- Floors are poured, with soundproofing.
- Electrical wiring is run, under-socket outlets are installed.
- Ventilation is completed.
- Heating and water are connected.
What's Next
Now the main focus is on installing ceilings and purchasing track lighting. Choosing the system is a really difficult thing.
By the way, Gemini is quite good at understanding construction in the context of Russia :) It knows who/what is on the market, and gives quite good advice.
DIALux evo
I had to learn DIALux evo for lighting calculations :) The system was written by engineers, for engineers, so using it is, let's just say, difficult :( But after a couple of weeks of figuring it out, I managed to get the hang of it.