Latest / September 15, 2026
9 posts from engineering leaders published September 15, 2026, by Simon Willison, Aja Hammerly, Michael Lopp (Rands) and 4 more.
Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation and had it build me this web UI for trying…
I think it was a year ago that I got introduced to the concept of “Work Slop”. Work slop is AI-generated documents, emails, slide decks, and other artifacts that initially look reasonable, but when you dig in are full of hallucinations, logical gaps, or other issues that create…
I think it was a year ago that I got introduced to the concept of “Work Slop”. Work slop is AI-generated documents, emails, slide decks, and other artifacts that initially look reasonable, but when you dig in are full of hallucinations, logical gaps, or other issues that create…
I think it was a year ago that I got introduced to the concept of “Work Slop”. Work slop is AI-generated documents, emails, slide decks, and other artifacts that initially look reasonable, but when you dig in are full of hallucinations, logical gaps, or other issues that create…
Robot writing has no voice. That’s why you find it annoying. Like it or not, your brain is currently one of the best organic pattern matchers in the known solar system, and that means you can detect patterns. Like breathing, you just do this. All the time. You are not being…
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises distilling the big idea, visualizing the audience, and building a structured storyline. more…
I’ve been trying to learn marketing lately. I would not say it’s going well. I started with a Coursera course, and one module in I was so frustrated by the pseudo-scientific framing. Some of it was actually scientific (I recognised Sheena Iyengar‘s work) and some of it only…
The signals show up long before their performance takes a hit.
It sure seems that a bunch of companies are trying to ship a git product of some kind as of late. Wonder why that is. Either way, I’m building a Git server backed by object storage as an open-source project . It sounded simple enough to start: Git looks like a filesystem, so…