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Now · October 2026

Two exams and a makeover.

This month six AI apps sit the tracker twice, and the whole site moves into this look.

Two exam papers, a paint palette and a box of boxes: the two runs, the drawings to come and the new look

01 Diary

The month in dates

  1. Sat 3 Run 1: the questions go out
  2. Thu 8 Run 1's report
  3. Sun 11 Run 2: the same questions again
  4. Thu 15 Run 2's report
  5. Fri 30 Every page in the new look
Then run 3 on Sat 7 Nov, and monthly after that.
Run 1, reported Thu 8 Oct
A drawing of a stopwatch: a small pink wedge for the old 4-minute limit inside a larger cyan wedge for the new 12 minutes, between an exam paper and a magnifying glass

Grok gets a resit

Run 1 went out on Sat 3 Oct. Our first limit of 4 minutes an answer kept cutting Grok off mid-search. That wasn't fair, so every app now gets 12 minutes, and Grok sat its questions again.

With the extra time a pattern showed up: Grok either answers in seconds or searches for about 10 minutes and gives up. The report names that as the cause of each blank.

The tracker

A drawing of two identical exam papers with an equals sign between them

02 Sun 11 Oct

Will the answers move on their own?

Run 2 asked the same ten questions again, a week after run 1. From this run on, every app is on its free plan, signed in.

Runs 2 and 3 are the baseline: the same questions, the same way, twice. That shows how much the answers wobble by themselves, so wobble never gets reported as a change.

Report due Thu 15 Oct.

A sketch of six small frames, each holding a different doodle: a sun, a zigzag, a star, a house, a wave and a spiral

03 Coming up

Six apps, one blank page

The showcase gives every app the same drawing task and puts the results side by side. The same task comes back later, so you can see what changed.

One a month, about two weeks after each tracker run. One idea on the list: ask each app to draw itself.

A sketch of the new look: light boxes of different sizes on a dark ground, one with a pink shadow, with a few stars between them

04 By Fri 30 Oct

Everything goes in a box

You're looking at it. Every page is moving into these boxes, with the reading on light and a window of night sky up top.

The aim is every page done by Fri 30 Oct.

05 After that

Also on the list

  • How the marking gets checked has its own page; a longer write-up comes next.
  • Run 3 on Sat 7 Nov, then monthly, plus a run within a week of any big model launch.
  • The checking kit on GitHub, after the write-up, open for anyone to use.
  • Confidently Wrong, the free email, every fortnight.

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Where it all lands

Updated monthly; this is October 2026. Every drawing here is a sketch made in code, not a result. This page is listed in Derek Sivers' /now page directory.