The 500x blog
The written form of every 500x Engineer video: articles adapted from the fact-checked scripts of the Shorts and the long-form episodes, with sources.
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SHORT
The New robots.txt Rule to Opt Out of AI Training (Not Live Yet)
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A YouTuber Gave Away 74 Motion Graphics Boards He Says He Made With Claude
· 3 min read -
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Why AI Makes Things Up: Hallucinations Explained
· 3 min read -
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Mistral's 1-Trillion-Parameter Coding Model Is Now Open Weight
· 4 min read -
LONG-FORM
1,024 AI Agents. Zero Human Code Reviews. I Read Microsoft's Fine Print.
· 7 min read -
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My AI Picks, Q1 vs Q4 2026: What Replaced What
· 3 min read -
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Anthropic's AI Agents Log 6x the Hours of Its People
· 3 min read -
ROUNDUP
Best of the Week: Anthropic's Agent Hours Report and 4 More AI Tools
· 2 min read -
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Why Your AI Forgets: The Context Window, Explained
· 2 min read -
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The AI Tool Behind a Viral 3D Dishwasher Explainer
· 2 min read -
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How an AI Picks Its Next Word: Top-k, Top-p and Temperature
· 2 min read -
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How I Make AI Shorts for About a Dime in Voice Costs
· 3 min read -
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One Developer Rebuilt 7 Adobe Apps With Claude
· 3 min read -
LONG-FORM
Gemini 4 Carbon: What the Leaks Got Right, and Who Gets It First
· 6 min read -
SHORT
If AI Can Build Any App, Why Is OpenAI Selling It to You?
· 3 min read -
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YouTube Can Make Shorts of You Without You: The AI Avatar
· 3 min read -
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Claude Wrote Machine-Checked Proofs for 123 Libraries
· 3 min read -
LONG-FORM
Entire Wants to Replace the Pull Request. I Read Its 89x Benchmark.
· 6 min read -
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NVIDIA OpenShell: A Sandbox for Your AI Coding Agent
· 3 min read -
LONG-FORM
GPT-6.1 Terra Review: Half the Price of Sol, and When It Actually Saves You Money
· 6 min read -
SHORT
Jev: Stop Paying a Chatbot to Answer Yes or No
· 3 min read -
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VideoGen Model 1 and $1M in Free AI Video Credits
· 3 min read -
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Claude Duet: Anthropic's Agent That Runs Your Back Office
· 3 min read -
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PHP2Shell: One Researcher and AI Found a Critical PHP Bug
· 3 min read -
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LiteLLM 1.107.0 Was Hijacked: How to Check Your Machine
· 4 min read
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