Latest / August 26, 2026
9 posts from engineering leaders published August 26, 2026, by Simon Willison, Jamie Tanna, Werner Vogels and 4 more.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance boost. I've been…
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with some of my contributions to Renovate . They're working mostly well so far, but I'm finding…
In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we’ve been doing in S3 (e.g., S3 Files, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors). And most importantly, why DuckLabs, the team…
Chrome and Firefox are moving to two-week releases, making browser cadence part of how teams interpret RUM and plan performance testing.
Architecture note on GLM-5.3-Flash, formerly Ox Alpha, covering its KDA and MLA/DSA hybrid attention, sparse MoE backbone, and four-stream mHC residual path.
The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that impressive because…
The default might not be what you expect, and it has a big impact on your styles.
Quality software reigns again
What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code?