Jeff Wang on Engineering

Chinese open source is no longer "6 months behind", but it's also no longer "10% of the cost" either Congrats to Moonshot on Kimi K3, 2.8T, $3/$15 - same as Sonnet but initial feedback is great, we'll be sure to run FrontierCode on our side

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Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Opens on a negative, which reads as a warning and is harder to ignore than a claim.
Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: corporate
Mechanisms: Specificity
Written for: Engineers and technical teams

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