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Hunter Jameson Rigney

Hunter Jameson Rigney

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And Then There Was Kimi (K2.5)

Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.5 on January 27, 2026, and it's not just another open-source model trying to catch up. It's claiming to match—and in some areas beat—Claude Opus 4.5, while costing a fraction of the price and running locally. The model

Claude, Gemini, and... GLM?

Four frontier AI models dropped in late 2025, each claiming to be the best at something. Gemini 3 Pro topped leaderboards on November 18. Claude Opus 4.5 launched November 24 calling itself "the best coding model in the world." Claude Sonnet 4.5 had already staked that

So Anthropic Just Released Cowork...

Anthropic released something yesterday called Cowork. I spent some time reading through the announcement and thinking about what this means for how we work with data. Here's why I think it matters. What Claude Cowork actually is The simplest way to explain it: you point Claude at a

And How's The Canadian AI Market?

The AI job market split in two directions heading into 2026. Senior ML engineers at top Canadian tech companies and AI labs command $150K-$240K CAD total compensation, with specialized roles at companies like Layer 6 AI reaching $240K+ CAD. Meanwhile, the entry-level market remains challenging, with Canadian firms prioritizing

Claude Code Already Won... Why?

October 2025 was the month three different visions of AI-powered development collided at full speed. Cursor launched version 2.0 with aggressive new features and multi-agent support. Windsurf doubled down on its autonomous "Cascade" system. Claude Code expanded with a VS Code extension while maintaining its terminal-first philosophy.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

September 29, 2025, Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 4.5 and made a claim that would have sounded absurd six months earlier: "the best coding model in the world." They had the benchmarks to back it up. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified. 82% with parallel compute. 50% on Terminal-Bench.

OpenAI Is Still Trying

August 7, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5. The announcement was confident, the benchmarks impressive, the architecture novel. But everyone in the industry knew the real story: OpenAI was panicking. Gemini 3 had taken top rank on most major benchmarks in the weeks prior. Claude Opus 4.1 launched August 5—two

Open Source Is Coming - Really, It's Already Here

July 2025 was the month the AI power structure cracked. Not because Western labs stumbled. Because Chinese labs proved they belonged at the frontier—and they did it with open weights, aggressive pricing, and capabilities that forced everyone to recalibrate their assumptions. Grok 4 launched in early July with real-time

Sonnet 3.5 Remains Incredible

Claude Sonnet 3.5 Changed Everything: How One Model Launched the Agentic Coding Revolution Something unusual happened in June 2024 that nobody fully understood until mid-2025. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.5, and within months, an entire category of software tools emerged that simply couldn't have existed before.