Great question! A couple reasons:
1) they are not the same as paid models, they are small & built for fast conversation rather than real work
2) they are designed to be cheap to run, so they use minimal thinking and tool calls. Tool calls and thinking are big drivers of accuracy
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Why small conversational models differ from paid models
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Building Production Apps with Cursor and Databricks
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Developers want to build apps, not spend time provisioning infrastructure.
— Databricks (@databricks) 26 mai 2026
In this video, @andrelandgraf from Databricks and Kevin Niparko from @cursor_ai show how to go from idea to a production-ready app on the Databricks Platform with built-in governance and serverless… pic.twitter.com/ZjB8zgxITmDevelopers want to build apps, not spend time provisioning infrastructure. In this video, @andrelandgraf from Databricks and Kevin Niparko from @cursor_ai show how to go from idea to a production-ready app on the Databricks Platform with built-in governance and serverless
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AI Agents Transform Codebases into Knowledge Graphs
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You probably still understand a codebase by reading files manually. This open-source repo turns entire codebases into interactive knowledge graphs using 7 parallel agents. It maps business logic alongside architecture and lets you trace dependencies, flows, and systems visually
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Helio Public Beta: Describe Goals, Get AI Team in 60s
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Helio moved to public beta, allowing anyone to describe a goal in plain language and get a working AI team up and running in under 60 seconds. > We set up an HR Manager, a Content Editor, and a Content Writer as AI teammates for TestingCatalog News. > Created a task and
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Helio: AI Agents for Collaborative Task Automation
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Helio offers AI colleagues who sit in the same communication channels to divide the work among themselves, challenge each other's ideas, and push tasks forward without prompting. It handles side projects, daily reports, contract reviews, repetitive ops tasks, and everything you
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NPM installations of @openai/codex jump from 100k to 1M per day
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https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=openai-codex&from=2026-01-25&to=2026-05-25 … shows that installations of @openai/codex via NPM were about 100,000 per day in January, now over one million per day.
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Coding agent interfaces leave developers’ IDEs
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Or does this reflect the fact that the most popular interfaces for coding agents nowadays no longer reside in developers' IDEs?
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Grok Build nav section appears, hinting at upcoming release
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A new Grok Build section has started appearing in the nav bar for users. It is not currently functional, but it may signal an upcoming release of the Grok Build web experience. Soon?
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Benchmarks vs product fit: why models aren’t the main problem
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Hot take 🔥
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 26 mai 2026
Most AI products don’t have a model problem.
They have a “we blindly worship benchmarks built for someone else’s use case” problem.
Your users don’t care what model won Twitter this week.
They care if your product works.
That’s why routers are the real unlock.… https://t.co/VTfSuVSJ4eHot take Most AI products don’t have a model problem. They have a “we blindly worship benchmarks built for someone else’s use case” problem. Your users don’t care what model won Twitter this week. They care if your product works. That’s why routers are the real unlock.
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Cofounder as AI cofounder for ActiveGraph, managing website and blog
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for ActiveGraph, i'm using Cofounder by @intelligenceco as my… cofounder I'm working on the repo, doing research. Cofounder built the website, manages newsletter/blog, and when I do a new blog or have something new to share, I just ping it saying "here's a link/content, can