Latest / July 23, 2026
7 posts from engineering leaders published July 23, 2026, by Simon Willison, Jeff Geerling, Gergely Orosz and 3 more.
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First, Hugging Face offers a truly rich target if you're trying to find…
AKA "Spectrum has gone down two weeks in a row and I'm sick of it". I've been borrowing a portable 5G gateway from my Dad for a few weeks, for testing... and two weeks in a row, I've used it as a backup Internet option, since my Spectrum Business cable Internet has gone down.…
Top of mind for engineering leaders: what to do about the growing code review load, and how devs are starting to review code less thoroughly than before? Many questions, but few proven solutions.
🎉 It's been a busy six months, that's for sure. I'm not going to bury the lede here; the short TLDR is I'm joining the folks over at https://antithesis.com/ . If I wind back time to November 2024 , it was apparent
The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised.…
The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds “ put his foot down ” in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development. I can identify two major ways in which AI is used for Linux kernel development: authoring code and…
We're going to look at three different kinds of benchmarks, one set of calculations for baseline numbers for performance "napkin math" estimates, one set of AI model evals, and one on car tires. To build my intuition for things, I like thinking about them before seeing the…