swyx aie.codes
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- Cognition ships SWE-2 Flash, swyx says 3x faster at same evals
The claim is distillation with no quality cost, and so far nobody outside Cognition has tested it on a real codebase.
- GPT-6 Astra edited 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to fix its math
No gradients, no training, just a frontier model reading and rewriting another network's parameters.
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- Theo drops Opus 5.5 to high, swyx says go lower
Two shipping engineers now say the maxed reasoning dial is the wrong default, and neither posted an eval.
- Anthropic rewrote its Messages API in Rust with no Rust devs
Somi's summary of the Latent Space episode says humans owned the plan and the verification, and the model owned the code.
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