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I tested DeepSeek's R1 and V3 coding skills - and we're not all doomed (yet)

DeepSeek exploded into the world's consciousness this past weekend. It stands out for three powerful reasons: It's an AI chatbot from China, rather than the US It's open source. It uses vastly less ...
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Anthropic has a 2-hour engineering take-home test. It says its new Claude 4.5 model outscored every human who took it.

Anthropic's new AI model is outperforming humans in coding, the company said of its latest release. On Monday, the company introduced Claude Opus 4.5 and described it as its most advanced AI model to ...
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I tested GPT-5's coding skills, and it was so bad that I'm sticking with GPT-4o (for now)

OpenAI's new GPT-5 flagship failed half of my programming tests. Previous OpenAI releases have had just about perfect results. Now that OpenAI has enabled fallbacks to other LLMs, there are options.
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Fake password manager coding test used to hack Python developers

Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware. The attacks are part ...