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The School Attached to the Lab Is Open Now
The model bake-off got its final standings. The training platform behind it is now free to read — every module, both games, no account required.
Your Default Model Is a Budget Decision You Never Made
Four fixed assignments, every current model, every effort setting, three attempts each — and the grades barely move while the bill moves by a factor of four hundred.
Your Agent's Attention Budget Is Already Spent
Context rot isn't a cliff a model falls off — it's a gradient, and the fix is curating what's in the window, not waiting for a collapse.
Autonomy Is a Dial, Not a Ladder
Chatbot, human-in-the-loop, agentic workflow, and full autonomy aren't stages you graduate through — they're positions you choose per task, and the vendors selling autonomy keep telling you not to default to it.
A Spec Is Not a Plan
Research, Plan, Implement, Verify is just the ordinary shape of software work, finally said out loud — and the spec/plan mix-up inside it is costing teams more than they realize.
Your AI Training Program Is Already Obsolete
By the time your team finishes an AI training program, the tools it covers have already been superseded. Here's what to do instead.