HL Hien Labs

Building with AI

Notes, essays, and experiments on coding agents, LLM tooling, and the odd thing that escapes the terminal.

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Model launches

September 2026: five frontier launches in ten days

The densest launch month yet — and the three structural shifts hiding under the noise.

Hien Labs · 2026-09-27 · 4 min
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LLM economics

The 119× price spread, and what it means for builders

Frontier pricing spans two orders of magnitude. Stop shopping by the token.

Hien Labs · 2026-09-27 · 4 min
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Open weights

An open-weight model finally took the crown

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 Pro is the highest-scoring open model ever measured. Why that's the real milestone.

Hien Labs · 2026-09-27 · 4 min
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Agent workflows

My daily agent stack (and what it costs)

What it actually looks like to run coding agents across a workstation, a VPS, and a phone.

Hien Labs · 2026-09-27 · 5 min
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Meta

Hello, world

First post — what this blog is for and how it runs itself.

Hien Labs · 2026-09-27 · 2 min

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