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8 posts from engineering leaders published August 8, 2026, by Simon Willison, Michael Lopp (Rands), Will Larson and 3 more.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode , to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th. This was one of the…
If everything is going to plan and your operating system is in dark mode, then randsinrepose.com is now dark for you. If you are a light mode person, you can click on the Moon in the upper right of the navigation and experience dark mode stylings. Click again to return. Why now?…
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News. I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point: May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased…
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap . My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made…
Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren’t rare , per se, but they’re occasional . If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I’d never get anything…
Quality now depends on the constraints you set around your agents.
Anubis v1.27.0 (Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn) is now available via Docker and direct download from GitHub releases. This release adds Windows Server support, automatically renames cookies based on settings to avoid infinite challenge loops, adds two new localizations, and more.…
Spaceship first, cleanup second. Start with the ending then work your way back to something useful.