Latest / September 4, 2026
6 posts from engineering leaders published September 4, 2026, by Simon Willison, Lou Franco, Jeff Geerling and 1 more.
I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol,…
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research…
I think of Identities as Forever Goals that I might never fully achieve or could always “be more of”. So, while I am definitely a “Programmer” and am proud of that ability and my accomplishments, I can see that there is a lot I could still learn and achieve. My other…
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server , so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours ! I made a short video about it but put off…
I'm about to switch subscriptions for one of my Claude accounts, and as part of it, will lose access to any chats I had in the Claude.ai web view (and i.e. on apps, if I used them). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to export these natively - maybe by design? - but…
The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks One-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6…