Latest / July 18, 2026
4 posts from engineering leaders published July 18, 2026, by Simon Willison and Sebastian Raschka.
Tool: SQLite Query Explainer Julia Evan's, in Learning a few things about running SQLite : Maybe one day I’ll learn to read a query plan. Big same.... which inspired me to have Fable build this interactive explain tool, which runs SQLite in Python in Pyodide in Web Assembly in…
How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes
Claude make Fable 5 permanent An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will…
nascheme/quixote A certain vintage of Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago . The oldest commit in that repo is from 21 years ago, and that was the initial import of Quixote 2.4 from Subversion into…