Show Notes
Google fires the engineer behind its Workspace CLI tool, OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 with three new model tiers, and Astro 7 lands with a full Rust rewrite. Plus: Coinbase cuts token costs with smarter routing, and more in this week’s Syntax Live
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:34 Welcome to Syntax!
01:46 Google fires Workspace CLI Creator
12:30 GPT 5.6 Is Coming
19:59 GLM 5.2 Released
23:23 Astro 7 Rust Re-write
32:46 Cursor Announces iOS App
35:08 Scott’s Workflow: Herdr + Mosh + Termius + Tailscale
40:33 Coinbase Reduces AI Cost with Model Routing
44:22 wayfinder-router - Local AI Routing CLI
48:16 Token efficiency in models and harnesses
Martin Woodward on X
52:34 performativeUI - react components for AI startups
54:31 Brought to you by Sentry.io
55:21 Reachy Mini Robot
01:02:21 FUTO Keyboard Swipe for Android
01:05:40 CSS Quake
01:07:35 HTML Invoker API is Baseline Available
01:13:17 Cloudflare Temporary Accounts for AI Agents
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