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9 posts from engineering leaders published September 27, 2026, by Simon Willison, Sebastian Raschka, Jamie Tanna and 4 more.
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides…
My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News. One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade : 2006-03-14 $0.150/GB-month 2010-11-01 $0.140/GB-month 2012-02-01…
Why I'd invest in post-training existing open-weight LLMs, with Fireworks' Ember-1 as an example of more token-efficient reasoning.
A busy week at work: My anniversary, so I took some time to look back at this last year It was too busy to even get a draft together for This Week in Package Management I've been actioning my plan to proactively give away our Community (OSS) plan and so it's been a nice week…
Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. They've started manifesting on Bluesky as well.…
What to do even when they’re often right.
This is the eighteen-month recap: the talk I gave on day two of AI Engineer Singapore. A lot has happened since the six-month recap in Melbourne. The recording is below, followed by an edited transcript with the slides. Welcome back. For those who were at the party here
Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge them, but after fully charging them, they only worked for maybe 5 minutes before…
Our ol’ grandpappy had it tough. Back in his day, when he wanted to build a new startup, he’d first spend months coveting the right venture capitalist, undergo hours of interrogations about his planned “agile development methodology” while being assaulted with steaks and strip…