Don't forget that this implies a form of examination you are not used to, namely :
- open book, you have access to nearly the whole Internet and resources out of it, e.g. torrents of nearly all books, research paper, etc including the history of all previous tests include those similar to this one
- arguably basically no time limit as it's done at a scale of threads to parallelize access through caching ridiculously
- no shame in submitting a very large amount of wrong answers until you get the "right" one
... so I'm not saying it makes it "easy" but I can definitely say it's not the typical way I used to try to pass tests.
I mean the same level of intelligence does get cheaper. People just care about being on the frontier. But if you track a single level of intelligence the price just drops and drops.
I wish I had the opposite of this. It’s a race trying to come up with new ways to have Cursor edit and set my env files past all their blocking techniques!
Great question. I just checked, and because I launch my entire VSCode with `op run …` (which makes dev life easier), Claude reports that it can read my dev secrets.
I could prevent this by running Claude outside of this context. I'm not going to, because this context only has access to my dev secrets. Hence the vault name: `81 Dev environment variables`.
I've configured it so that the 1P CLI only has access to that vault. My prod secrets are in another vault. I achieve this via a OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN variable set in .zshrc.
I can verify this works by running:
op run --env-file='.env.production' -- printenv
[ERROR] 2026/01/15 21:37:41 "82 Prod environment variables" isn't a vault in this account. Specify the vault with its ID or name.
Also, of course, 1Password pops up a fingerprint request every time something tries to read its database. So if that happened unexpectedly, I'd wonder what was up. I'm acutely conscious of those requests.
I can't imagine it's perfect, but I feel pretty good.
It’s unlikely the students at Brown killed were targeted. He opened fire on a room of students at a review session, shooting 11 people. It seems very possible that this was an act of violence out of resentment towards Brown, where he dropped out a graduate program over 20 years ago. He would’ve had most of his classes and spent most of his time in the building where he carried out the shooting.
He appears to have attended the same undergraduate program in Portugal as the MIT professor.
Therefor it seems possible that these shootings were carried out of personal resentment, though only he knew for certain.
I grew up in a very warm place, then moved to a very cold place and was miserable. I’d never done a winter and every year I was deeply unhappy for huge spans of the year.
But then I moved to Denmark from that cold place and found myself very happy! Of course circumstances change and a single account means little but I definitely believe some societies lend themselves to greater happiness than others, even in the very developed world.
I believe they’re just classifying all models into “reasoning models” eg o3 vs “non reasoning models” eg 4o and just doing a comparison of total tokens (input tokens + hidden reasoning output tokens + shown output tokens)
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