Wednesday, 6 May 2026

The Deep Feed

Your nightly long-form digest

18 min read · 6 pieces
In this issue
01 GPT-5.5 is the best model ever made (but there's a catch) 3 min
02 Skills at Scale — Nick Nisi and Zack Proser, WorkOS 3 min
03 MCP UI: Extending the frontier — Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon, MCP Apps 3 min
04 Missions: Multi-Agent Systems That Ship for Days — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory 3 min
05 Accelerating AI on Edge — Chintan Parikh and Weiyi Wang, Google DeepMind 3 min
06 Prime is (mostly) right about AI 3 min
Editor's Letter

A slower digest of things worth reading, chosen to help you think instead of scroll.

01 Ben Davis · Video

GPT-5.5 is the best model ever made (but there's a catch)

From Ben Davis

By Ben Davis · 3 min read
Editor's note: Selected for relevance to deep work, technology, attention, or better thinking.

I know I'm late to this one, but still wanted to talk about it. GPT-5.5 is really really good, but it's also a little weird...

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SOURCES https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-guidance https://x.com/0xSero/status/2048744545853030690 https://x.com/davis7/status/2048239401059434710 https://x.com/davis7/status/2048235547366457452 https://x.com/davis7/status/2048232268808990890 https://x.com/threepointone/status/2049545657866674665 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048444292562026713 https://models.davis7.sh/

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Key Takeaway

Read this with one question in mind: what would I change in my work tomorrow if I took this seriously?

02 AI Dot Engineer · Video

Skills at Scale — Nick Nisi and Zack Proser, WorkOS

From AI Dot Engineer

By AI Dot Engineer · 3 min read
Editor's note: Selected for relevance to deep work, technology, attention, or better thinking.

Chat interfaces are no longer limited to walls of text. In this talk, Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon explain how MCP Apps turn tools into interactive UI inside hosts like ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor, and Copilot, letting companies send branded, functional app experiences instead of plain text responses.

The session covers the core architecture behind MCP Apps, how UI is passed over MCP, how interactions stay in context through the host, and why this changes how applications get distributed in an agent-first world. If you're building on MCP, this is a practical look at the emerging standard for UI inside chat.

Speaker info: - Nick Nisi | https://nicknisi.com/about/ - Zach Proser | https://zackproser.com/

Key Takeaway

Read this with one question in mind: what would I change in my work tomorrow if I took this seriously?

03 AI Dot Engineer · Video

MCP UI: Extending the frontier — Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon, MCP Apps

From AI Dot Engineer

By AI Dot Engineer · 3 min read
Editor's note: Selected for relevance to deep work, technology, attention, or better thinking.

Chat interfaces are no longer limited to walls of text. In this talk, Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon explain how MCP Apps turn tools into interactive UI inside hosts like ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor, and Copilot, letting companies send branded, functional app experiences instead of plain text responses.

The session covers the core architecture behind MCP Apps, how UI is passed over MCP, how interactions stay in context through the host, and why this changes how applications get distributed in an agent-first world. If you're building on MCP, this is a practical look at the emerging standard for UI inside chat.

Key Takeaway

Read this with one question in mind: what would I change in my work tomorrow if I took this seriously?

04 AI Dot Engineer · Video

Missions: Multi-Agent Systems That Ship for Days — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory

From AI Dot Engineer

By AI Dot Engineer · 3 min read
Editor's note: Selected for relevance to deep work, technology, attention, or better thinking.

Everyone's building multi-agent systems, but nobody agrees on how. This talk proposes a taxonomy of five frontier multi-agent strategies and shows what happens when you compose them into a single architecture. Drawing from production data at Factory, we walk through a three-role system (orchestrator, workers, validators) that uses validation contracts, structured agent handoffs, and adversarial verification. We cover the case for serial over parallel execution, why model selection per role is a compounding advantage, and how to design systems that get better with each model generation instead of being made obsolete by them.

Speaker info: - https://github.com/lukealvoeiro - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukealvoeiro

Key Takeaway

Read this with one question in mind: what would I change in my work tomorrow if I took this seriously?

05 AI Dot Engineer · Video

Accelerating AI on Edge — Chintan Parikh and Weiyi Wang, Google DeepMind

From AI Dot Engineer

By AI Dot Engineer · 3 min read
Editor's note: Selected for relevance to deep work, technology, attention, or better thinking.

As models get smaller and more capable, more AI workloads can move onto the device itself. In this talk, Chintan Parikh from Google DeepMind walks through what that looks like in practice, from Gemma 4 edge models and on-device agent skills to the real tradeoffs around latency, privacy, cost, and cross-platform deployment.

The session covers LiteRT, the Google AI Edge stack for running models across Android, iOS, desktop, web, and IoT, along with demos of local tool calling, structured output, reasoning, benchmarking, and hardware acceleration on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. If you're building on-device AI systems, this is a practical overview of the current edge stack and where it is headed.

Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/weiyiwang1993 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chintansparikh

Key Takeaway

Read this with one question in mind: what would I change in my work tomorrow if I took this seriously?

06 Theo - t3.gg · Video

Prime is (mostly) right about AI

From Theo - t3.gg

By Theo - t3.gg · 3 min read
Editor's note: Selected for relevance to deep work, technology, attention, or better thinking.

Prime's takes on the AI Economy are mostly right, but there's a couple things worth going deeper on...

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S/O @Ph4seon3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Key Takeaway

Read this with one question in mind: what would I change in my work tomorrow if I took this seriously?

Endnote
What one idea from today deserves a quiet hour tomorrow?
The Deep Feed · A nightly magazine · Wednesday, 6 May 2026