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AI Unplugged · by · sent September 4, 2026 · Issue 074

OpenAI Shoots For The Stars

OpenAI has unveiled Astra, its next-generation model line, calling it GPT-6 — a full generational jump the company calls its most intelligent and most aligned model yet.

🌲 Agent Evergreen Build Log — Week Two

This week, I connected the Agent Evergreen waitlist to Directus using n8n. I hit a couple of snags along the way, but the full workflow works now.

While documenting it, I realized something more important: most people joining Agent Evergreen probably don’t want to recreate my exact Directus and membership setup. They want help building useful AI agents for their own work.

That unlocked System 001: Build Your Own Content Agent Fleet, a practical way to turn an ordinary LLM into a small team using skills, relevant context, clear permissions, understandable handoffs, and human approval.

My own Agent Evergreen setup stays in as the real-life case study, but members will build an agent team around their own business, not copy mine.

🗞️ AI News of The Week: OpenAI Announces Astra (GPT-6)

OpenAI has unveiled Astra, its next-generation model line, calling it GPT-6.

Astra, according to OpenAI, is a full generational jump, not an incremental update — described as the most intelligent and most aligned model the company has shipped.

Note: Astra is kind of a big deal. The models are getting scary good, meaning they can do complex tasks without breaking a sweat.

👉 Read More About the OpenAI Astra

🧠 AI Term of The Week: WorkSlop

Definition: Workslop is a slang term for useless, sloppy, or annoying AI output that creates more work instead of less. It’s used in the workplace when a co-worker gives you a document that was clearly written by AI, and the only way to understand it is to give it to an AI to translate and simplify.

Explain Like I’m 5: Imagine asking a robot to clean your room, but instead of putting your toys away, it just dumps a giant pile of mismatched blocks and dirty socks in the middle of the floor and calls it done.

💬 Quote of the Week

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

🛠 AI Tutorial Of The Week: Claude Code: Easy Switch Between Work & Personal Accounts (Mac)

Description: This tutorial shows you how to switch between multiple Claude Code accounts on your Mac without logging out or resetting your context window every time you swap between work and personal logins.

🤖 What You’ll Learn

  • Checking your login: see which Claude Code account is currently active
  • Credential folders: set up separate config folders for each account
  • Editing .zshrc: add simple aliases to your shell config file
  • Building aliases: switch accounts instantly with one short command

📺 Watch Tutorial on YouTube

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