Latest / September 5, 2026
4 posts from engineering leaders published September 5, 2026, by Simon Willison and Armin Ronacher and Swizec Teller.
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s : Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build more sophisticated outputs. In particular, it excels at…
TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from blender.org and run a prompt like this: Use the already install…
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, why not do something more interesting with them? They all work quite…
I've been a dad for 3 months now so obviously I have it all figured out and there's nothing new to learn. My theories are rock solid and definitely apply to everyone.