How to Get More From AI by Using Fewer Tools
Don’t fall for the tool sprawl trap
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The distillation panic
‘Distillation attacks’ is a horrible term for what is happening right now.
Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement
LWiAI Podcast #243 – GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans
The Batch AI News and Insights: The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.
Building gets easier
My tool stack is changing
LWiAI Podcast #242 – ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text , Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.6 Max Preview , SpaceX is working with Cursor
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard
Builders
GPT-5.5 is a good model
More open questions about AI
Hodge podge of things I was thinking about this weekend.
Blog prize for the big questions about AI
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a researcher
GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work
The Batch AI News and Insights: Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.
Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
One impressive step on the curve
ChatGPT's Nano Banana
testing popular design tools
That's my designer – Claude
and it comes with a new model, Opus 4.7
Reading today's open-closed performance gap
The complex factors that determine the single evaluation number so many focus on. Plus, how this changes in the future.
Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
At what point do the financial markets price in the singularity?
My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures
A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases
Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams.
Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
My bets on open models, mid-2026
What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
What I’ve been building: ATOM Report, post-training course, finishing my book, and ongoing research
What I've been up to!
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?