An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge
By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. Ten models entered. The results were not
Why is OpenAI quietly hiring human writers, designers, and editors?
By Rohana Rezel OpenAI, the company most responsible for convincing the world that human creativity is obsolete, has been quietly hiring human writers, designers, and editors at salaries north of $200,000.[1]https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/copywriter-creative-studio-at-openai-4344198805/ Meanwhile it shut down its Sora consumer app, the
Don’t give AI agents the keys to production
By Rohana Rezel The pitch is seductive. Point an AI agent at your infrastructure, give it a task, walk away. No tickets, no on-call rotations, no waiting for an engineer to get around to it. The agent reads the codebase,
AI Coding Contest: 7 challenges in, the tiers are clear
By Rohana Rezel I’ve been running an ongoing AI coding contest, pitting six frontier LLMs against each other in live programming challenges. Each challenge works the same way: I give all six models an identical prompt spec describing a programming
Pierre Poilievre’s floor-crossing flip-flop: condemning today what he helped protect in 2012
Pierre Poilievre spent April 2026 denouncing floor crossers as politicians who “betrayed the people who voted for them.” Fourteen years earlier, when Parliament had a straightforward chance to require those politicians to face those voters, he voted no. The crossings
AI is a Dunning-Kruger equalizer
By Rohana Rezel In March 2026, Yousif Astarabadi, a startup founder and CEO of a company called TalkTastic, posted a viral thread claiming he had hacked Perplexity’s sandboxed coding environment. He had extracted what looked like a gateway token, proxied
Slopsquatting: the supply chain attack vibe coding made
By Rohana Rezel In late 2023, a security researcher named Bar Lanyado noticed something odd: multiple AI models kept recommending a Python package called huggingface-cli. The name made sense, closely matching the real Hugging Face CLI syntax. But the package
YIMBY’s Airbnb problem: the housing movement that takes money from the company removing housing
By Rohana Rezel In a blog post that remains live on its website, California YIMBY argues that short-term rental regulations make the housing crisis worse. The post cites a single academic study to make the case that restricting Airbnb reduces
BC banned Airbnb from non-primary residences. Then the rents came down.
On October 16, 2023, the day BC announced it would restrict short-term rentals to principal residences, Tamara Stone, a Kelowna realtor, received six calls from panicked property owners before noon. Within days, 250 new houses and 392 new condos appeared
The junior developer pipeline is broken, and nobody has a plan to fix it
By Rohana Rezel Schools don’t create senior software engineers. Scars do. Every senior engineer you’ve ever relied on was once mass-applying to entry-level jobs, writing bad code, and learning the hard way why you don’t store passwords in plaintext. The
