Blog — MeTal

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Meta March 20, 2026

Why we left OpenAI (and what we found on the other side)

Not a tell-all. Not a drama piece. Just an honest look at why two people with good jobs decided to walk away from one of the most hyped companies on the planet.

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AI March 18, 2026

Valley Fast vs Valley Pro: which one should you actually use?

One's fast. One's smart. Here's a no-nonsense breakdown of when to use which — with real benchmarks, not cherry-picked ones.

Mythic March 10, 2026

We gave AI a game studio. Here's what happened in month one.

Spoiler: it didn't ship a game. But it did generate 47 story documents, three competing design philosophies, and one very confused Discord bot.

Dev March 3, 2026

Building MeTal ID: why we didn't just use Auth0

Auth0 is fine. Clerk is fine. But when your whole company is an experiment in AI-built software, building your own auth is kind of the point.

Rant February 25, 2026

Filtered AI is a product failure, not a safety success

Hot take? Maybe. But when your model refuses to help with basic tasks because of surface-level pattern matching, that's not safety. That's cowardice.

Company February 15, 2026

MeTal is now a real company. Here's what that means.

We filed the paperwork. Got the EIN. Opened a bank account. The boring stuff is done. Now we can focus on the interesting stuff.