







ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.
LLM Leaderboard 2026 — Compare Top AI Models
Compare the latest LLM benchmarks for GPT, Claude, Gemini and more. Updated rankings across reasoning, coding, math, and multilingual tasks with pricing and speed data.
How LLMs are and are not like the brain
Hi from buttondown! At the bottom of this newsletter is a bit of administrivia about the new platform How LLMs are and are not like the brain Beneath all the...

Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans,...

The Ultimate Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs from Basics to Breakthroughs: An Exhaustive Review of Technologies, Research, Best Practices, Applied Research Challenges and Opportunities (Version 1.0)

AI Model Leaderboards & Benchmarks
Explore leaderboards with expert-driven LLM benchmarks and updated AI model rankings across coding, reasoning and more.
LLM Rankings | OpenRouter
LLM rankings and AI leaderboard based on benchmarks and real usage data from millions of users. See which AI models developers actually use.

LLM Leaderboard - Comparison of over 100 AI models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek & others
Comparison and ranking the performance of over 100 AI models (LLMs) across key metrics including intelligence, price, performance and speed (output speed - tokens per second & latency - TTFT), context window & others.

How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…

Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
Claude's faulty "known entity" neurons sometimes override its "don't answer" circuitry.

AI Leaderboard 2026: Compare & Rank 300+ Top AI Models by Intelligence, Speed & Price
The AI Leaderboard — independent rankings of GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek and 300+ AI models by intelligence, speed and price. Composite LLM Stats Score updated continuously from public benchmarks and live API metrics.

How to keep learning in the age of LLMs | Oğuzhan Olguncu
Notes on how I keep learning as a programmer in the age of LLMs

Cognitive exponents and LLM leverage
I know a few people for whom LLMs have been a near-immediate multiplier of attention and effort. I know a lot for whom LLMs clearly make them worse at thinking and doing things. So: why?
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An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.
