Paul Graham deeply analyzes the nature of taste: good design isn’t subjective—it can be studied and cultivated. From simplicity, timelessness, and solving real problems to humor, clustering effects, and bold innovation, this detailed exploration of 15 core principles includes rich examples explaining why Leonardo, the Eiffel Tower, and the SR-71 possess timeless beauty.

Luo Yonghao and Zhang Weiwei’s four-hour deep conversation: the complete life story of a 50-year-old musician from bullied schoolboy, to street busker, to electronic music transformation. He says AI will eliminate second-rate creators, but people full of ‘miscellaneous stuff’ can never be replaced.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6 with comprehensive upgrades in coding, computer use, and long-context reasoning. Users prefer it over the previous Opus 4.5, and the price stays the same. Sonnet is becoming the optimal choice for most people.

CEOs can’t stop talking about AI in earnings calls, but 56% of companies admit they’ve seen no significant returns. How is AI actually reshaping the job market? Who’s winning, who’s losing, and what should you do?

Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 launched on the same day, but this time nobody’s looking at benchmarks. The AI coding assistant race has shifted from ‘who’s stronger’ to ‘who’s more usable’ — we’ve officially entered an era where system experience matters more than model capability.

Tencent Hunyuan’s CL-bench reveals that even GPT-5.1 can only solve 23.7% of context learning tasks — exposing AI’s massive blind spot in ’learning on the fly.'

Meta AI’s code leaks reveal a wave of new features: the Avocado model, Manus-powered Browser Agent, MCP protocol integration, scheduled tasks, and OpenClaw open API Keys — ambitions spanning the entire AI landscape.

A deep dive into Paul Graham’s latest essay: writing that sounds good is more likely to be correct. It sounds absurd, but his ‘shaking the box’ metaphor explains it perfectly.