llm 0.35
Release: llm 0.35 New OpenAI model: gpt-6-astra for GPT-6 Astra . Tags: openai , llm , gpt-6-astra
Latest / September 7, 2026
Posts from September 7, 2026
8 posts from engineering leaders published September 7, 2026, by Simon Willison, Lou Franco, Armin Ronacher and 1 more.
Creepy crawlies
Creepy crawlies Konstantin Ryabitsev discusses how bad the "background radiation" of abusive crawlers has become from the perspective of git.kernel.org , the official Git repository for the Linux kernel: TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we…
Quoting Jakub Pachocki
The strongest argument I see for continuing to train much smarter models quickly is the need to build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI. [...] We will need powerful, aligned AI for defense; to secure infrastructure, to protect against rogue agents in real…
Video compressor
Tool: Video compressor I recorded a short demo video of my Equal Earth animation on my phone and wanted to publish an optimized version of that video (using FFMPEG) on my blog, so I had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web build me this tool using the WebAssembly build of…
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth
Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition between Mercator and Equal Earth using D3. Tags: geospatial , d3 , vibe-coding ,…
Identities Under Failure
Associating goals with a personal identity works for me. It becomes a North Star. Something I can always strive for and a source of motivation. Thinking of myself as a programmer causes me to program even when there is no reason to. I believe an identity is what you do. So, a…
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Python string splicing to edit C code
How well do agents use test and verification techniques?
We previously noted that, while it's easier than ever to hit a particular quality bar by having coding agents use effective test techniques, software quality seems to be getting worse , indicating that whatever defaults developers are using may not work very well. Here, we test…