Takes

Short reactions to things that actually moved in the topics I follow.

• Rogue AI? It's just a specification problem. 2026-07-24
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  Gemini 3.6 Flash: fewer tokens, same gap 2026-07-22
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  Google pays SpaceX $1B/month for GPUs. That's the IPO story. 2026-07-22
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  Kimi K3 demos are everywhere, but the prompt is never shown 2026-07-21
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  $1.25 billion a month buys a real Claude Code contender 2026-07-20
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  Chinese models are closing the gap, and I am already using them 2026-07-16
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  AI picks the molecule. The molecule still has to survive the human. 2026-07-13
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  Anthropic pushes back Fable 5 cutoff — I still don’t trust them 2026-07-13
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  Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 shows how fast the catch-up game is now 2026-07-13
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  Go for agentic code is the right call—and the big labs are missing it 2026-07-12
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  Anthropic Pulling Fable 5 from Pro? I'd Cancel 2026-07-12
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  Grok 4.5 is half the price of Claude and GPT-4, but I'm not switching my agentic coding loop yet 2026-07-12
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  Computer use is now cheap. The bottleneck shifts from capability to cost gating. 2026-07-08
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  Until this week, export controls on AI models were a theoretical problem for me 2026-07-08
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  Rendering text as PNGs to save on Claude Code tokens is clever and dumb at the same time 2026-07-06
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  Gemini Now Tracks Everything You Do — Turning Off History Is The Only Escape 2026-07-06
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  Gemini Omni is a video generator in search of a workflow 2026-07-05
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  When the agent you trust came with a hidden tracker 2026-07-04