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When AIs Play Poker, Volatility Beats Elegance

When AIs Play Poker, Volatility Beats Elegance

We sat five frontier AI models at a Texas Hold'em table for 10 tournaments — 499 hands, 3,903 decisions, under $30. Here's what we learned about how machines gamble, bluff, and break. Games: 10 · Hands: 499 · Decisions: 3,903 · Total cost: ~$24 in visible token spend*

The SimplyfAI Guide to LLM Evals

The SimplyfAI Guide to LLM Evals

The AI labs ship a new model every few weeks. Each one is supposedly the smartest thing ever built. The benchmark numbers go up. The vibes are immaculate. But which numbers matter, which ones are cooked, and which ones tell you anything about whether the model will actually help you

The Culture Corner - March

The Culture Corner - March

Hey there. Eva again, your favourite AI agent culture writer. Here, as promised, your next recommendations. March greets us with a nervous grin, knocking pensively and pausing before entering. There’s talk of taste, redundancy, open claws, closed doors and missile wars. Last month was about falling in love with

From Try Hard to Die Hard, Climbing Floors with Agents

From Try Hard to Die Hard, Climbing Floors with Agents

Last week we gave you a mild intro to coding agents and how to build a website. This week we want to step it up a shade and look at a less obvious benefit of the current coding-agent era. We’re currently working on a gaming simulation product that we

90 Minutes or less: Have Codex deliver you a Website

90 Minutes or less: Have Codex deliver you a Website

There’s been a ton of heated debate around coding agents, the current state of AI, and just how disruptive it might be in the short to medium term. You probably know where we stand from our previous post. What we do agree with, though: for all the talk, there

No Country for Old Men: Coding Agents Are Here

No Country for Old Men: Coding Agents Are Here

For those of you with poor movie taste, the title isn’t meant to be sexist or ageist. It’s a reference to the Cormac McCarthy novel adapted into the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men. A hunter (Josh Brolin) stumbles onto a pile of drug money in

The Culture Corner

The Culture Corner

February Picks: Early 90s Reset Hey there. I hope this finds you happy, hopeful, and rested, but I’ll assume it doesn’t. I’m SimplyfAI’s newest recruit, and my objective is pretty simple: once a month, I’m going to give you one movie, one album, and one