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Opus 5.5 is a Sassy Try-Hard
If you wanna be a thought partner, you gotta earn it
Oct 23
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[AI Engineer Summit Talk] When Will The Benchmaxxing Plague End?
Most benchmarks don’t deserve the trust we place in them
Sep 10
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Slop is Deeper Than Cringe Word Choice
You can remove the smarmy tone and it’s still bad
Aug 25
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Opus 4.8 Aggressively Pursues the Wrong Path
But it's really good at that pursuit
Jun 11
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If you don't use an agent orchestrator, you'll be stuck in the permanent underclass
Or your b2b SaaS will just take a little longer to ship 🤷
Jun 9
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SWE Hiring is Cooked
Agents are superhuman at the “1 hour exercise” format
May 19
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How to use AI effectively even when you have no idea what you’re talking about
Bootstrapping out of the tar pit of ignorance
Apr 13
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When is it ok to slop your colleagues?
Opportunities to beclown ourselves abound
Mar 18
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Nick Heiner's Substack
Independent benchmarks, essays on the future of work, and dispatches from someone building AI products and testing AI agents every day at Surge AI.
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