Emily Campbell

just five months ago, the company’s best model ranked around one-millionth on a well-known benchmark for competitive coders—not great, but still in the top two or three percentile. Today, OpenAI’s top model, o3, ranks as the 175th best competitive coder in the world on that same test. The rapid leap in performance suggests an AI coding assistant... See more

Alpha School isn’t really about AI. It’s about systems design — structure, autonomy, measurable feedback loops, and a currency that makes achievement feel meaningful.

You saw music as a platform to do things. Could Live Aid happen today?

I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.

Now, music is free and you get the news that you... See more

The large language models that programmers train to identify faces are black boxes. Even the engineers don’t know how or in what form your face appears to the system. All they know is that AI likes your face to be brightly lit. And that it prefers for you not to smile.