Next Token podcast: after Opus 5.5, will games, software and hardware all go open source?
oran_ge · x · 2026-10-09
The fifth episode of the Next Token podcast argues that frontier-model capability leaps (citing a hypothetical Opus 5.5 and RSI) are upending software, hardware and games faster than law and ecosystems can adapt.
- Coding leap: Yang Pan fed an old game script to Opus 5.5 and got a playable build immediately — likened to a multi-million-yuan CTO doing months of work in minutes; commenters say its code quality surpasses 99% of programmers, with better token efficiency.
- New engineering norms: language/kernel swaps become one-line tasks when unit tests lock in logic.
- Gaming: projects rewriting PS5 software for x86 raise open-source and copyright boundary questions.
Transcribed via a podcast-to-article skill; audio on Xiaoyuzhou, video on Bilibili.
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