Latest / August 22, 2026
7 posts from engineering leaders published August 22, 2026, by Simon Willison, Jamie Tanna, Lou Franco and 2 more.
And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect…
In this week's Fallthrough podcast episode, I joined Kris Brandow and Matthew Sanabria to talk about a few things, but mainly the new Go proposal proposal . I don't think this was a particularly good appearance from me - I'd been at GopherCon UK the few days before , and was…
Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2 . #1608 , #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for this yesterday, but this is the more comprehensive fix. llm embed and llm…
The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the correct way. Sometimes this involves reviewing every line of code they have…
I just finished The Inner Game of Tennis [ad] by Timothy Gallwey, which has been on my reading list for over a decade. I happened to see a copy featured in a bookstore and bought it as a plane read. It’s short and sweet at under 200 pages, which I love. I should say to […]
A 48-minute video walkthrough of token sampling, watermark detection, and removal
One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered for humans does not matter for agents. As…