Latest / October 4, 2026
7 posts from engineering leaders published October 4, 2026, by Simon Willison, Jamie Tanna, Lou Franco and 4 more.
Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increasingly large numbers. Here's the chart he shared of those…
A chilled journey back home, with a stop-off at Blakeney for a walk with the dogs We bumped into Dougie on the road home which was a nice surprise! Finally looked into a massive papercut I have with my Neovim + Vale setup, where I need to stop Vale and then clear LSP…
As of my last update, I was at 11 of 26 of my 2026 mini-quests done. Here’s what changed: So 15/26 done. I will definitely come up short, but here are the ones I think I could also knock off: That would get me to 22.
I'm in Denmark! Well, just, I'm now at Copenhagen airport ready to begin the long trek home, with the final event at GOTO now done and going just perfectly. This week, there are two ShinyHunters arrests in the news: Pepijn in the Netherlands and then Saif
Being told to "be more strategic" rarely comes with instructions.
Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? Expertise level: exhausted. MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['\\(', '\\)'], ['$', '$']]} }; As I admitted in my last post , I am very much not an expert model developer. What follows is likely to be, at least partially, inaccurate. I have…
FFXIV raid mechanics explained in plain language.