Latest / July 24, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published July 24, 2026, by Simon Willison and Tom MacWright and Armin Ronacher.
Introducing Claude Opus 5 I've been offline kayaking with sea otters for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 through its paces yet. The buzz is positive, and Anthropic's description of it as a "thoughtful and proactive model that…
I’m still writing my journals on paper . Makes it about a decade of notebooks, most of them Field Notes , kept in the archival wooden boxes [1] . Writing by hand helps me remember and process life. Finishing notebooks give me the feeling of closing a chapter on those problems,…
Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Considering I want GitHub to get some competition I have thoughts about this. GitHub’s governance has never been democratic and there is plenty about the platform that I dislike.…