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10 posts from engineering leaders published September 20, 2026, by Simon Willison, Yegor Bugayenko, Jamie Tanna and 4 more.
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as…
We exist to be needed, we were needed for thinking, machines now think better and cheaper than we do, and nobody knows what a man is for after that.
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc) with unfettered internet…
A busy week at work: Most importantly, apk add / apt install s are now extracted in Dockerfile s , which is a much-wanted feature! Made some good progress on my 1 year anniversary post Anna's been in London this week, so it's been a chill few days at home with the fur babies Had…
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally that means I need to…
A short note on Jev's generalization, possible encoder-style architecture and training, and Choice and Noul API examples.
One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint this year has…
The data on AI coding tools looks great at the individual level and unremarkable at the team level.
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags: sqlite , datasette
To have a positive and rewarding career, you need to drive defensively