MacBook Neo drops at 8GB RAM
Shipping 8GB RAM in 2026 is criminal for anyone touching local LLMs. As @steipete noted, it's just "rough"—great for browsing, dead on arrival for builders. Stop buying toys.
March 5, 2026
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OpenAI's Learning Measurement
New suite to track AI's impact on longitudinal learning progress. Finally, we move past testing the AI's knowledge to measuring how it actually changes a student's cognitive growth.
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The kids are alright (and building)
A team of 19-year-olds in SF just built a 30PB storage cluster for ~$500k as a side quest. If you're wondering what "high agency" looks like, this is it—they didn't wait for AWS, they built the infra themselves.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro's ARC-AGI Leap
Scoring 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, this model isn't just scaling; it's finally reasoning. Seeing it debug code live is a reality check—the barrier to production-ready agentic workflows just got much lower.
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Infrastructure is the Only Game
Forget the SaaS fluff; the real story is AMD and Meta's $100B infra play. Compute is the new sovereign oil—whoever controls the data centers controls the agents.