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7 posts from engineering leaders published August 30, 2026, by Simon Willison, Jeff Geerling, Jamie Tanna and 4 more.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of…
In building an NTP time demo on old Macs for VCF Midwest , I came across RFC 867 and RFC 868 , for the 'Daytime' and 'Time' Protocols, respectively. My first exposure to any form of network time was when I upgraded from a used PowerBook 180c to my first 'new' computer, a Power…
A busy week at work, publishing 10 advisories for Renovate , and working on a number of other bits As GitHub Stacked PRs now support Merge Queues, I've been using them a fair bit this week, mostly simplifying a number of things And it'll be interesting to see how this will help…
This is based on my keynote at RubyConf 2026. Video, references There’s a philosopher in Naples, Italy, way back in the 1700s who understood something important to software today. Giambattista Vico lived early in the Enlightenment, when mathematical and experimental thinking…
A short video on how conventional LLMs relate to reasoning models and agents, along with Python and PyTorch setup using uv.
What to do when two people on your team are telling you different stories.
I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work , but most people I talk to don't see anything like this . For a long time, I thought this had something to do with how I use…