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Jul 24, 2026

Four cartoon islands of the same shape on deep teal water: one lush and fully built out with a cottage, fountain, and lamp posts; one frozen mid-construction with exposed wooden framing; one overgrown with tangled vines; one small and plain but complete.

One Prompt, Four Models - Which AI Is the Better Game Developer?

I gave the same game-dev prompt to Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Fable 5 - same machine, same rules, native harnesses - then played what came back. Part 2 of the Kimi K3 series.

Jul 22, 2026

A crowd in black silhouette holds up dozens of glowing phones, each screen showing the launch they are all filming: a chrome rocket marked with a black K climbing into a starry night sky on a pillar of white flame above billowing amber smoke.

The Moonshot Moment - Kimi K3's launch week

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.

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.

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.