🍭 OpenAI Code Red, Meta Code Brown 🍄‍🟫

Good morning. The intern just got here real upset… Said he's contributed the whole year to an open-source project that just got private… 😮‍💨

But who cares about him.
Let’s dive in! 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Meta’s Avocado model is already browning

• OpenAI hits Code Red and Garlic becomes canon

• GPT-5.2 is fashionably late (again)

• Pixel-me workflow that turns your whole team into retro NPCs

• ToolBox™ helps you build apps, sell more and get insights…

Steal This Prompt
🎮 Turn Anyone Into a Game Pixel Character

Make any person look like it walked straight out of a retro JRPG — tiny body, giant head, crisp pixel edges, the cuty package.

Use it to:

• Profile pics

• Team avatars

• Founder trading cards

• Bullying your friends lol

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt)

2. Paste into GPT

3. Upload your photo

4. Replace the #’s with your details

5. Watch it cook (pixel squad right off)

_Meta
🥑 Avocado AI Plan Hits Rough Waters

The Bite: 
Meta is scrambling.

New next-gen model, Avocado was supposed to be the successor to the Llama series.

Instead, its delayed and underperforming.

Meta is ditching its open-source ethos in favor of a proprietary system:
Aimed at competing with AI giant ones efforts.

Snacks:

• New timeline: Avocado’s launch has slipped from late 2025 to early 2026.

• Strategy U-turn: Meta is abandoning open-source Llama roots;
  Avocado will likely be closed-source.

• Big bets, tighter control: After spending billions in AI veterans and infrastructure now it plans to lock down core tech.

• Internal shake-up: “open science” culture fades, now secrecy and speed are over transparency.

Why it bites:
It shows how high the stakes have gotten in the AI race:

If Avocado flops or arrives too late, Meta risks losing:

• Ground to rivals;

• Credibility with the developer community, which made Llama popular btw.

Dev reader:
Be mindful of who you support, it might bite you in the ass.

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES

🤖 Incredible
→ Deep-work AI agents that run your workflows end-to-end without babysitting.

📲 Yolk
→ An AI sales coach that reviews calls and builds realistic practice simulations.

⚡ Vybe 4
→ Build internal apps from natural language, fully connected to your data.

🔍 Clarify
→ An autonomous CRM that fills in your contacts, logs everything, and nudges you when deals need love.

📊 Basedash
→ Ask questions about your data in plain English and get instant charts, insights, and dashboards.

OpenAI
🧅 Garlic, Code Red, And The AI Vampire Wars

The Bite: OpenAI basically pulled the fire alarm on itself.

After Google and Anthropic started outscoring GPT-5.1 on reasoning and coding, Sam Altman declared “code red” and told everyone to fix core ChatGPT quality now.

GPT-5.2 was rumored for December 9 as the emergency patch…
It’s December 10, and still nothing.

Meanwhile, the real long-term bet is a new architecture called Garlic;
Smaller, cheaper, and aiming to keep big-model brains without big-model bills, likely landing sometime around 2026.

Snacks:

• Code Red Is Real: Altman: ‘drop side quests and fix core ChatGPT fast.’

• Patch: 5.2 is meant to stop benchmark bleeding, not reinvent ChatGPT.

• Garlic: New Model: Big-model brains in a smaller, cheaper system.

• Garlic = Anti-Vampire: Drop “Garlic” after rivals bite your lead and of course the vampire memes appear.

• User Reality: GPT-5.1 is fine for daily stuff; heavy coding and deep work drift to Gemini and Claude.

• Power Bill Pain: You get better tools; your electricity bill gets jump-scared.

Why it Bites: OpenAI acting scared is actually great for you:
It means the lazy era is over, and the next year will be nonstop upgrades as labs sprint to outdo each other.

Your only real job is to stay model-agnostic, use whatever works best this week, and pray your laptop…

And your power bill .

Good luck.
I hope you survive the garlic-powered arms race.

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🥑 Meta Faces Trouble With “Avocado” AI Plan
Meta’s model is missing deadlines and falling expectations.
Can it compete with rivals?

👋 OpenAI Economist Quits Over Research Direction
OpenAI’s team is being pushed toward advocacy rather than neutral analysis.

🏥 Teens Are Using AI Chatbots for Mental Health
25% of teenagers rely on AI chatbots for mental health support.

💥 AI Boom Differs From Dot-Com Era
It is driven by big-tech investments, but could still produce instability.

🤖 OpenAI Unveils “Agentic AI” Foundation
More autonomous AI systems: Reliability, safety, and agentic behavior.