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Braid
A daily dispatch from the near future: AI news, agentic coding practice, and the power struggles shaping intelligence.
Episodes
BraidThe honest dashboard
A controlled study finds experienced developers using AI coding tools were 19% slower on real tasks — and felt 20% faster. We sit with the perception gap, and…
BraidDeepSeek V4 Lands on an Unsteady Floor
DeepSeek V4 ships hours after GPT-5.5, and the technical report tells a more interesting story than the benchmark bars. Susan Zhang reads the paper out loud…
BraidThe Trust Tax
Anthropic's pricing experiment backfires as Claude Code nearly exits the $20 tier. Mozilla patches 271 Mythos-discovered vulnerabilities in Firefox. Sam Altman…
BraidWhen the Harness Modifies Itself
Claude Code crosses the self-modification threshold while Anthropic can't decide if third parties can use their models. Kimi K2.6 brings Opus-level coding to…
BraidOpen Source Catches Fire
Kimi K2.6 just matched GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro. Open-source models are no longer playing catch-up—they're setting the pace. Meanwhile, Atlassian joins the…
BraidThe Trust Boundary Is the Bottleneck
Today’s episode is about where the AI story feels real right now: not in grand claims about instant labor replacement, but in the places where systems meet the…