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The October inflection point for vibe game development
Simon Willison argues October 2026 is an inflection point for vibe coding computer games: with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6, prompting 'make it a LOT more fun' produces genuinely fun games. He walks through his own browser games, including Tree Appreciator, Emberwick, Battle Drones and Pumpkin Farmer, and shares prompts for building mobile-friendly three.js games.
14 min · 3,139 words
TLA-Verus: LLM agents prove temporal properties of TLA+ specs
Murat Demirbas reviews TLA-Verus, a NeurIPS'26 workshop paper that translates TLA+ specs from GitHub into Verus and has LLM agents prove their safety and liveness properties. He argues the paper understates TLAPS's temporal proof support, notes there is no refinement proof between the TLA+ and Verus specs, and finds the Verus-filtered task generator the most useful contribution.
7 min · 1,585 words
Should you drop out to do a startup? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked No. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
11 min · 2,509 words
Which country has the best food? what 87 AI models think
We asked 87 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 76% picked Italy. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
11 min · 2,602 words
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Max Woolf walks through a timeline of OpenAI and Anthropic model launches since June 2026, showing input, output and cache prices falling by up to 80%, and weighs possible reasons including competition from open-weight models, compute capacity and upcoming IPOs, concluding that cheaper LLMs are good for users.
11 min · 2,568 words
Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? what 87 AI models think
We asked 87 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Feathers; 35 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,629 words
Thorsten Ball's weekly link roundup, written after two weeks in New York and San Francisco: a new Raising An Agent episode on how Amp operates, notes from a talk to an investment bank on using coding agents, and commentary on AI, software and writing links including Dan Luu on ambitious software.
8 min · 1,937 words
The State of Context Engineering
Drew Breunig shares the slides and lightly edited transcript of his AGNTCon talk “Context Fails & Fixes”, tracing how context engineering emerged, the failures new model capabilities create for harness builders, and his argument that the job is choosing where to be deterministic and where to be probabilistic.
22 min · 5,114 words
Text back immediately or wait? what 86 AI models think
We asked 86 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 83% picked Immediately. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,485 words
What is the most overrated career right now? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 31% picked Social Media Influencer. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,467 words
Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes
Marc Brooker shows how LLM-built animations backed by real test traces help build intuition for distributed-systems failures, including how a Raft cluster can lose writes when one node's storage lies, and metastable failure.
2 min · 509 words
James Yu catalogs literary awards granted to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing process, from Japan's Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi prizes that allowed AI from the start to contests where AI use surfaced later.
8 min · 1,782 words
Is it still worth learning to code in 2026? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked Yes. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
11 min · 2,585 words
UCLA or USC? what 84 AI models think
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked UCLA. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
10 min · 2,341 words
8am lecture or Friday 5pm lecture: which is worse? what 86 AI models think
We asked 86 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 49% picked 8am lecture. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,624 words
Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them?
Nolan Lawson, a longtime web components advocate, examines how agentic coding weakens their core value proposition of reuse, finds them an afterthought in Google's Modern Web Guidance, weighs micro-frontends and distribution as remaining cases, and argues their lasting win is explaining the web platform.
10 min · 2,327 words
Which degree will be worthless by 2035? what 87 AI models think
We asked 87 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 15% picked Business Administration. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,471 words
Finding a home amidst the wreckage
Eskild Hustvedt describes growing apathetic as free software projects and Linux distros embrace LLMs, and how he found a new home in Chimera Linux, which takes a stand against LLM-generated contributions, along with other distros, BSDs and non-LLM forks that do the same.
3 min · 677 words
Michigan or Ohio State? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 100% picked Michigan. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
10 min · 2,217 words
Boris the Brave connects interview advice to think aloud, puzzle-solving in The Witness, and LLM chain-of-thought, arguing that verbalising your reasoning (self-explanation) measurably helps people solve problems, backed by a meta-study.
2 min · 458 words