Latest / September 17, 2026
6 posts from engineering leaders published September 17, 2026, by Simon Willison, Cassidy Williams, Martin Fowler and 1 more.
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans Important warning from Adam Harvey and the crates security team: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in…
How To Write With An LLM Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that as a form of intellectual personal protective equipment you should adopt the rule that any…
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Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months". This one here is my favorite: they caught some of their…
I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other hand, I’m fearful of the damage AI might cause: agent swarms…
Over the last decade, much has changed in the role of engineering management. Through the 2010s into the peak of Covid in 2021, for many, the role began to optimize for one thing. That one thing was moving information around. Managers translated context upwards from the team and…