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Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · October 2026
Wes Bos on why early-access reviews of new AI models tend to be glowing, during a discussion of a new model the hosts had tried. He called it "a little bit of insider baseball."
…are all the places where it introduced bugs. So I think it's fine. It kind of felt like using Claude a year ago. I've seen people mentioning that it's like astra level. Like I do not have that experience, at least on the test that I tried it with. I don't see it either. I think it's just the domain
too that I was using it in. But I think that a lot of people are
afraid to get their early access revoked. Because what happens with a little bit of insider baseball is a lot of these companies will approach you and say, hey, can we give you, you want early access? And we're like, yes, please. Free tokens and early access. I'm all over that. And people are afraid to soil that relationship by actually saying like what it really is because then they don't get access next time. You know, same thing happens with iPhone as well, right? There's all these iPhone reviewers that only say good stuff and kiss Apple's butt all day long because they're afraid of getting their access revoked.
Shout out to Rody Davis. He's the one that gave me access. Yeah, like I'm happy I got early access, but I'm going to be honest because like it was like if it was good, I would tell you it was good. I don't know if things have changed because we did technically have early access and like the point…
Yeah, I tried it on a completely different thing. I tried it on a Godot game. One thing, I had the game kind of some bones for it already. So we had a strong kind of setup. The one thing I did really like about it is that I wanted to mess around with some actual pixel graphics for this thing…
Scott said like one thing when we were talking about it. He says it's good enough. Like it thinks what it's building is good enough. And I think that's a really great way to put it because I was tasking it to recreate my invoicing software absolutely from scratch. And And what that was, is it had…