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Top 5 · 2026-02-27 · source-backed
— Self-described agent skeptic Max Woolf published the most rigorous practitioner evaluation yet, progressing from YouTube scrapers to porting scikit-learn to Rust. Results: HDBSCAN 23-100x faster than existing Rust crate, GBDT 24-42x faster than XGBoost, UMAP 2-10x faster. Critical insight: AGENTS.md instruction files are the key enabler. "It's impossible to publicly say these models are 'an order of magnitude better' without sounding like hype, but it's the counterintuitive truth." (minimaxir.com, curated by Willison)
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Both cover GBDT, HDBSCAN, Max Woolf, Opus; cite the same source (minimaxir.com, Willison); overlapping topics (agent, codex, coding, faster, woolf).
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Both cover GBDT, HDBSCAN, Max Woolf, Rust; cite the same source (minimaxir.com); overlapping topics (agent, better, critical, enabler, faster).
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Both cover GBDT, HDBSCAN, Max Woolf, Opus; cite the same source (minimaxir.com); overlapping topics (agent, codex, coding, evaluation, faster).
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Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Same source domain / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Rust, Willison; reported by the same outlet (simonwillison.net).