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3 total essays 7 tags since 2026

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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.