Latest / October 5, 2026
5 posts from engineering leaders published October 5, 2026, by Simon Willison, Michael Lopp (Rands), David Heinemeier Hansson and 2 more.
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security reasons - mapping in just the data you explicitly added to your session. People loved…
There is one. Wait, two. No, three. Ok, four humans who directly inspired my writing. (Ok, five.) The list is not in order of importance, but by time: Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Fall 1988) Think what a better world it would be if we…
Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better. Yet the endless, incessant dooming about the climate, the inequality, and AI is everywhere. We may have killed God , but we clearly didn't bury the devil's anxieties with…
It's kind of strange seeing all these discussions about software factories... and the like. It's also strange to see conversations about programming languages or claims that $language is best, as if that will remain true going forward. It's very clear, however, that programming
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied : we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what…