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Dear First Year: Nobody Will Tell You This, So I WillYaar listen, first year is the most wasted year for 90% of engineering students, and nobody warns you about it. A senior letter on what actually matters before the four years run away.
The Last 30 Days of AI MultiverseJune 2026 was wild. Not in the "another GPT wrapper" way, but in the "wait, what just happened?" way. China quietly dropped a bunch of open-source models that made frontier labs sweat.
The $60 Question: Are Cursor's AI Tokens Actually Subsidized?An investigation using one month of real usage data — June 2026. I pay $60 a month for Cursor Pro+. One billing cycle, instead of asking whether the tool made me productive, I asked a different question.
MiniMax's M2 Series: The clearest public blueprints for agent-native LLMsNot just another MoE release: M2, M2.5, and M2.7 combine mini activations, long-context full attention, verifiable agentdata, and an RL stack built for tools, code, browsers, and office work.
The AI Engineering Roadmap2026 Edition · Agentic AI. A structured path from Python developer to production-ready AI engineer — with a strong focus on agentic systems, LLMs, and real-world tooling.
AI Engineering Roadmap for Software EngineersFast-Track · For Software Engineers. Already know Python and FastAPI? Skip the theory-heavy track. This is your direct path to building and deploying agentic AI systems — in weeks, not months.
I Made Claude Opus 4.6 Max and GPT-5.5 Analyze the X Algorithm. Then I Made Them Judge Each Other.Claude vs GPT: X Algorithm Analysis. Both models analyzed the same open-source X "For You" algorithm repository (May 2026 release). Same codebase. Same task. Independent runs. Then they judged each other.