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Avg Comments
7.2
Avg Likes
69.2
Engagement Rate
0.11%· ~76 likes + comments/post
(comments + likes) / subscribers
Quality Score
Engagement vs AI
0.11% engagement rate
Score Breakdown
Engagement Score
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| OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogPlus we’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everythingOct 5, 2026 | Public |
| 2026 in LLMs (so far)Plus Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price warSep 28, 2026 | Public |
| Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision ModelsPlus Gemini Live, and a pelican riding a bicycle in 1988Sep 21, 2026 | Public |
| Navier–Stokes, RubyGems attacked, GIS and Blender with GPT-6 AstraPlus a Datasette security release, and a Pluribus Fabergé eggSep 14, 2026 | Public |
| GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and yet more rogue agent attacksPlus Gemini 3.8 Flash - that’s a lot of pelicans riding bicycles!Sep 7, 2026 | Public |
| Understanding ChatGPT WorkPlus Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Tencent Hy4Aug 31, 2026 | Public |
| Conceptual integrity and counting lines of codePlus Bun 1.4 and the latest on Anthropic’s revenueAug 23, 2026 | Public |
| Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingsPlus Gemini 3.7 Flash, Muse Glimmer, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Aug 17, 2026 | Public |
| Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging FacePlus One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, and a big new LLM releaseAug 8, 2026 | Public |
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Posts per Week
1.0
median: 1.1
Publishing Consistency
81/100
median: 69/100
Subscribers
72K
median: 2K
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Publishing Frequency
Weekly
Last published Oct 12, 2026
Usually publishes Fri
1.0 posts/week avg
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$5/mo median
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