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On METR's AI Coding RCT
METR ran a proper RCT experiment seeing how much access to Cursor (using Sonnet 3.7) would accelerate coders working on their own open source repos.
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AI #125: Smooth Criminal
One story has towered over things this week.
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Kimi K2
While most people focused on Grok, there was another model release that got uniformly high praise: Kimi K2 from Moonshot.ai.
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Grok 4 Various Things
Yesterday I covered a few rather important Grok incidents.
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Worse Than MechaHitler
Grok 4, which has excellent benchmarks and which xAI claims is ‘the world’s smartest artificial intelligence,’ is the big news.
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OpenAI Model Differentiation 101
LLMs can be deeply confusing.
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AI #124: Grokless Interlude
Last night, on the heels of some rather unfortunate incidents involving the Twitter version of Grok 3, xAI released Grok 4.
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No, Grok, No
It was the July 4 weekend.
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Balsa Update: Springtime in DC
What Balsa has been up to in the first half of 2025
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On Alpha School
The epic 18k word writeup on Austin’s flagship Alpha School is excellent. It is long, but given the blog you’re reading now, if you have interest in…
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Housing Roundup #12
Abundance and YIMBY are on the march.
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AI #123: Moratorium Moratorium
The big AI story this week was the battle over the insane AI regulatory moratorium, which came dangerously close to passing.
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