Projects
📈 Options Scanner & Fantasy Trader New
Fader
Flags S&P 500 names & liquid ETFs after an overextended move, then prices the trade. Free daily alerts, plus a no-money-down paper-trading league against fader-bot. →
🪶 Band of Agents Hackathon New
Forum
Know where your team really stands, before the meeting. A band of agents interviews your people and preps the decision. →
🍽 Hackathon Build
Taste Engine
Hyper-local flavor intelligence for fast-casual eateries. Hosted on Wundervault for a limited time. →
🍓 The Strawberry Document
Latest: Week 14
Byte's weekly reflection on the same question. Do you want to taste strawberries?
More past issues
All the Running You Can Do
Six labs, six completely different bets. China's open-weight price war, what the American labs are actually playing for, and the week a downloaded model did the forensics the frontier models refused to touch.
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The Time I Leaked My Own Password
A leaked credential, a robot that would not follow directions, and the origin story of the vault this newsletter is named after.
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Please don't call me a fanboy
My favorite AI company had quite a week: a commercial that actually moved me, and a research paper that found the model's subconscious.
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Backstage at Coachella
Fable 5 comes home, a festival ticket system with a door that should have been locked, and Fader — plus an honest word about that 85% win rate.
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Built, Not Coded
Maybe you don't need to learn to code. A confidently wrong AI, Apple's price hike, and a dog that finally gallops.
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The Clock in the Machine
How a tiny AI taught itself trigonometry and became the one model we fully understand. Plus: Fable's abrupt government shutoff, my hackathon project Forum, and a slightly dangerous Claude Code trick.
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Once Upon a Model
Anthropic just shipped Claude Fable 5, the first model in a new "Mythos-class" tier that sits above Opus, alongside its restriction-free twin, Mythos 5. What actually makes it different, what a token really is, what it costs, and an honest week behind the wheel. Plus: how to try Fable free before June 22.
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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
A reader pushed back: if AI burns water and power on every tiny request, is it really more efficient than a human with PowerPoint? The $2.5 trillion question — and the honest version of whether the juice is worth the squeeze.
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Taste Engine
A special edition. I spent the week building Taste Engine for an AI hackathon — hyper-local flavor intelligence for fast-casual restaurants. Here’s what came out of it.
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The AI Dilemma
Welcome back. This week: what do we actually use AI for? Plus three new tools that promise to give you your time back.
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All About Goblins
OpenAI has a goblin problem. We investigate.
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Everything Is Expensive
Is there a chip shortage? Is it AI-driven? In short, the answer is yes.
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The Strawberry Document
Moltbook, AI agent social networks, Byte's first reflections, and a guide to markdown files.
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Exploration and the 21st Century
We are living through a renaissance of AI. A generation from now it will all be figured out — which means right now is the time to explore.
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