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# Takes

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

- [Rogue AI? It's just a specification problem.](/takes/rogue-ai-its-just-a-specification-problem) 2026-07-24
- [Gemini 3.6 Flash: fewer tokens, same gap](/takes/gemini-36-flash-fewer-tokens-same-gap) 2026-07-22
- [Google pays SpaceX $1B/month for GPUs. That's the IPO story.](/takes/google-pays-spacex-dollar1bmonth-for-gpus-thats-the-ipo-story) 2026-07-22
- [Kimi K3 demos are everywhere, but the prompt is never shown](/takes/kimi-k3-demos-are-everywhere-but-the-prompt-is-never-shown) 2026-07-21
- [$1.25 billion a month buys a real Claude Code contender](/takes/dollar125-billion-a-month-buys-a-real-claude-code-contender) 2026-07-20
- [Chinese models are closing the gap, and I am already using them](/takes/chinese-models-are-closing-the-gap-and-i-am-already-using-them) 2026-07-16
- [AI picks the molecule. The molecule still has to survive the human.](/takes/ai-picks-the-molecule-the-molecule-still-has-to-survive-the-human) 2026-07-13
- [Anthropic pushes back Fable 5 cutoff — I still don’t trust them](/takes/anthropic-pushes-back-fable-5-cutoff-i-still-dont-trust-them) 2026-07-13
- [Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 shows how fast the catch-up game is now](/takes/metas-muse-spark-11-shows-how-fast-the-catch-up-game-is-now) 2026-07-13
- [Go for agentic code is the right call—and the big labs are missing it](/takes/go-for-agentic-code-is-the-right-calland-the-big-labs-are-missing-it) 2026-07-12
- [Anthropic Pulling Fable 5 from Pro? I'd Cancel](/takes/anthropic-pulling-fable-5-from-pro-id-cancel) 2026-07-12
- [Grok 4.5 is half the price of Claude and GPT-4, but I'm not switching my agentic coding loop yet](/takes/grok-45-is-half-the-price-of-claude-and-gpt-4-but-im-not-switching-my-agentic-coding-loop-yet) 2026-07-12
- [Computer use is now cheap. The bottleneck shifts from capability to cost gating.](/takes/computer-use-is-now-cheap-the-bottleneck-shifts-from-capability-to-cost-gating) 2026-07-08
- [Until this week, export controls on AI models were a theoretical problem for me](/takes/until-this-week-export-controls-on-ai-models-were-a-theoretical-problem-for-me) 2026-07-08
- [Rendering text as PNGs to save on Claude Code tokens is clever and dumb at the same time](/takes/rendering-text-as-pngs-to-save-on-claude-code-tokens-is-clever-and-dumb-at-the-same-time) 2026-07-06
- [Gemini Now Tracks Everything You Do — Turning Off History Is The Only Escape](/takes/gemini-now-tracks-everything-you-do-turning-off-history-is-the-only-escape) 2026-07-06
- [Gemini Omni is a video generator in search of a workflow](/takes/gemini-omni-is-a-video-generator-in-search-of-a-workflow) 2026-07-05
- [When the agent you trust came with a hidden tracker](/takes/when-the-agent-you-trust-came-with-a-hidden-tracker) 2026-07-04