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Posts from October 1, 2026
6 posts from engineering leaders published October 1, 2026, by Cassidy Williams, Simon Willison, Gergely Orosz and 2 more.
pwasm 0.2a0
Release: pwasm 0.2a0 pwasm is one of my folly projects - an entirely vibe-coded pure Python WebAssembly engine that I built in January during my first bout of AI mania . I hadn't touched it since January, so I decided to let Claude Opus 5.5 loose on it and see if it could make…
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?
A DECADE of writing on this blog
This year I'm fortunate to be celebrating a few 10th anniversaries. One of the big ones is that this blog is officially 10 years old! This post is the 1285th post I've written on here, and I still love this part of myself. I've written about how it's helped me as someone…
Quoting Matthew Green
[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that they could leave instructions for each other in a shared…
Recently
September was another big month for my life, mostly for me offline. Another good month for bicycle riding, seeing more of the trails on Randalls and Wards Islands . The New York area has taught me a few things about islands and one of them is that they’re very fungible. On a…