Building with AI
Notes, essays, and experiments on coding agents, LLM tooling, and the odd thing that escapes the terminal.
The Feed
🚀
Model launches
September 2026: five frontier launches in ten days
The densest launch month yet — and the three structural shifts hiding under the noise.
💸
LLM economics
The 119× price spread, and what it means for builders
Frontier pricing spans two orders of magnitude. Stop shopping by the token.
🏆
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.
🤖
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.
👋
Meta
Hello, world
First post — what this blog is for and how it runs itself.