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The Moonshot Moment - Kimi K3's launch week

Jul 22, 2026 10 min read ai-behavior · models

Kimi K3 launched last week to a flood of hot takes and hyperbole. What the benchmarks, the token economics, and a few identity probes actually say about the newest open-weight moment - part 1 of a three-part series.

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Jul 13, 2026
Socrates in an olive robe leans forward mid-argument, one finger raised, while a small deadpan gray robot seated on a marble plinth holds out a finished scroll; three scrolls lie on the marble floor between them, beneath a terracotta fresco in a columned hall.

How I Work With Agents

A mandatory workshop in February put me back into hands-on engineering and changed how I work. These are the practices I've learned from countless hours with agents since - most of them useful well beyond coding.

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Jul 6, 2026
An open wooden collector's case lined with green velvet, holding an abacus, a slide rule, and a vintage pocket calculator in fitted recesses, beside a smooth uncut section where a fourth instrument would go.

The Calculator Replaced the Slide Rule - Math Didn't Die

In 1972 the HP-35 made the slide rule obsolete almost overnight, but math didn't die. AI is doing the same thing to software engineering, and the fundamentals are getting more valuable, not less.

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