Latest / September 6, 2026
8 posts from engineering leaders published September 6, 2026, by Simon Willison, Troy Hunt, Jamie Tanna and 2 more.
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki) talk about it, and this one doesn't even bother…
I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bit more interesting. And on that note, the imagery it&
A busy 4 day week On Monday, we had a chill bank holiday with a nice lunch at Mowgli It's been a very busy work week Thursday was releasing a few big bits, and a number of releases to Dev Platform as we closed off different pieces On Friday, with the APK Datasource available , I…
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a terrifyingly high rate". On this Interisle report ( via Andrew Campling…
The question more Engineering Managers seem to be asking themselves.
My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs. [In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so rare for that to work. You announce the old thing is irrecoverably drowning…
If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance. — Zach Kehs , There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get…
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis…