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Benchmarks we lost in the last year
Sep 17 • 
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August 2025

Let Them Fight
AI slop vs. social media influencers
Aug 27 • 
Kevin Thuot
o3 Should Have Been Called GPT-5
OpenAI’s terrible naming convention comes back to bite them
Aug 18 • 
Kevin Thuot
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Stop Calling Everything AGI
Our language isn’t keeping up with our language models
Aug 6 • 
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July 2025

Would You Work for an AI?
Many people will and most kinda already do
Jul 21 • 
Kevin Thuot
Your Kids Aren’t Going to Learn to Drive
Did you learn to ride a horse?
Jul 10 • 
Kevin Thuot
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Chat Ex Machina
Replacing Doom-Scrolling with LLM-Looping
Jul 2 • 
Kevin Thuot

June 2025

Abundance ≠ Altruism
Don't Expect AGI to Lead to UBI
Jun 30 • 
Kevin Thuot
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You are fine with AI stealing people’s jobs
Do you still pay a human to book your flights?
Jun 21 • 
Kevin Thuot
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o3 is Smarter Than My Friends
And my friends are pretty smart
Jun 18 • 
Kevin Thuot
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Vibe Coding Is a Real Thing
Agentic AI coding tools are flattening the learning curve and unlocking a wave of new use cases
Jun 17 • 
Kevin Thuot
7 Reasons 'DeepSeek Moments' Pour Gasoline on the AI Progress Fire
Using less is good, using more is better
Jun 16 • 
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