Latest / September 14, 2026
9 posts from engineering leaders published September 14, 2026, by Lou Franco, Simon Willison, Sebastian Raschka and 3 more.
This is the latest post documenting my tech stack built around using coding agents safely. The previous posts were: Up until this past week, I had been using cloud based AI, but the endgame of this setup was to get onto local AI. In Part II, I mentioned that I moved to Linux on…
The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful mistakes causing unjustified panic…
My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs. An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions . I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always be looking for improved understanding of the layers under…
The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per…
My take on AI model pacing as a framework for release checks and the competitive pressure around model releases.
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they weren't fit for…
Original prompt to generate a David Sacks like tweet
What it takes to run agents in a codebase older than the team