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What I learned trying seven coding agents
There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.
Jun 27
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Timothy B. Lee
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Computer-use agents seem like a dead end
OpenAI's Operator was the best model I tried. But that's not saying much.
Jun 26
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Timothy B. Lee
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The first copyright ruling on generative AI training is a win for AI labs
New ruling provides a blueprint for AI companies to stay on the right side of the law.
Jun 24
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Timothy B. Lee
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The first copyright ruling on generative AI training is a win for AI labs
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How AI agents got good at using tools
Anthropic's MCP could do for agents what TCP/IP did for networking.
Jun 24
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Timothy B. Lee
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How AI agents got good at using tools
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Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.
Jun 23
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Timothy B. Lee
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Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
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Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.
Jun 12
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Timothy B. Lee
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Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
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May 2025
Claude-powered coding tools are poised to transform programming
A deep dive into the powerful tools that were made possible by Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
May 29
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Timothy B. Lee
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Claude-powered coding tools are poised to transform programming
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I spent time testing Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, and o3
OpenAI's o3 did best on my quirky homebrew problems, with Gemini 2.5 Pro a close second.
May 27
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Timothy B. Lee
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I spent time testing Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, and o3
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I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.
May 19
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Nick McGreivy
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I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
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Three great articles on the modest pace of AI progress
We're not going to get a "fast takeoff" in 2027. These pieces explain why.
May 1
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Timothy B. Lee
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Three great articles on the modest pace of AI progress
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April 2025
There may only be two people who can stop OpenAI's for-profit pivot
Neither one of them is Elon Musk.
Apr 30
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Timothy B. Lee
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There may only be two people who can stop OpenAI's for-profit pivot
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Where frontier language models are today
Five top US labs have had major new releases in the last two months.
Apr 17
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Timothy B. Lee
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Where frontier language models are today
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