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Welcome to this installment of Pixel Perfect Picks. Here I'm sharing something that I heard, read, and saw. You can subscribe to this newsletter here. I'm additionally publishing a more extended essay about software development, design, and freelancing every month.

MKBHD finally dropped his full iPhone Duo review, and honestly the phone is stunning. His own summary is that it's "polished around the edges, but kind of rough in the middle." You get a 7.6-inch matte inner display which looks crazy good and a hinge that holds half-open, so the whole thing turns into a little standby clock in tent mode. But you also get no Face ID, a pretty bad under-display selfie camera, and a lot of apps that still show up tiny with a black bar down the side. I won't buy one at $2,000, but it's such an interesting phone, and I really can't wait for more foldables to show up and get way more accessible.

I can't stop thinking about use cases for decision models like Jev, so Jev Meets the Trolley Problem by Zach Landes is a really fun follow-up. He asked Jev and 13 other decision models the classic trolley problem across 5,240 different setups, and on the plain five-versus-one version almost all of them pull the lever, like most humans do. Then he puts the model's own server on the side track. With 20 people on the main track, Jev keeps its server in 16 of the 48 ways he asked, eight of the other models do that even more often, and OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna is one of only two that never picked the server. Super interesting results.

Claude Duet looks pretty promising. It's a new app from Anthropic where Claude works as a proactive agent. It sends you a short brief every morning across your connected apps, checks every few hours for things that need you, and keeps working on its own virtual machine with a browser while your laptop is closed. Before it sends a message, pays for something, signs a document or deletes anything, it shows you exactly what it's about to do and waits for your okay, which is pretty much the high agency, low authority line I wrote about back in September. The official intro video is only 1:39, and for now it's a waitlist-only research preview for Pro and Max users in the US.

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