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Quality non-fiction is the antithesis of AI slop

Benjamin Breen (Res Obscura) argues that award-winning non-fiction sits at the opposite end of the spectrum from AI-generated content. I think he's right.

Writing is good for your brain

Writing does more than record thoughts. The act itself changes how well we think, understand, and remember. And writing by hand amplifies all three: the slower pace and the physical movement engage more of the brain than typing. You can't write by hand fast enough to copy things word for word, so yo

Promptfoo

Promptfoo is an open-source CLI and library for testing LLM applications the way we test regular code. You describe prompts, test cases, and assertions in a YAML) file (TypeScript works too), run `promptfoo eval`, and get a results matrix comparing outputs across prompts, models, and providers. A lo

ProseMirror

ProseMirror is a toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web, created by Marijn Haverbeke and released under the MIT license.

Qwen Image 3.0

Qwen Image 3.0 is the third generation of Alibaba's Qwen image generation model, released 21 July 2026. The tagline: "Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge".

Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight LLM) from Moonshot AI, announced on 16 July 2026 with weights published on Hugging Face on 27 July. It is the successor to Kimi K2.6 and the first open-weight model to be argued, credibly and by people with no stake in it, as sitting inside the closed

Qwen 3.8

Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal LLM) from Alibaba's Qwen team. Announced 19 July 2026 as a preview, generally released on 3 August 2026 under the title "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork".

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's workhorse Gemini model, released on 21 July 2026 alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. Its pitch is not intelligence, it is cost per completed task: cheaper than the model it replaces, meaningfully better at coding and tool use, and 17% more token-e

Bonsai 27B

Bonsai 27B is an extremely low-bit compression of Qwen3.6-27B from PrismML, released on 14 July 2026 under Apache 2.0. The 1-bit variant is 3.9 GB. That is a 27B-class model, with reasoning and vision intact, running on an iPhone.

LM Studio Bionic

LM Studio Bionic is an agent application from the LM Studio team, announced on 16 July 2026 and positioned as "the AI agent made for open models". It is a separate app, not a mode inside LM Studio: coding, research, and document work, driven by open-weight models running locally, over LM Link, or in

Codex Micro

Codex Micro is a $230 macro pad from OpenAI's Supply Co., made with Work Louder and announced on 15 July 2026. It is a physical control surface for OpenAI Codex: thirteen mechanical keys, a rotary dial, a planar joystick, and per-key RGB that reflects live agent status.

DSLs Make LLM Output Reliable

Give a model a domain-specific language) instead of a general-purpose one, and its output gets dramatically more dependable. Unmesh Joshi (Thoughtworks) made the argument on Martin Fowler's site in July 2026, and it is one of those ideas that is obvious in hindsight and almost nobody applies deliber