The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software (https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software) On February 5th Anthropic's
How I think about Codex (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-think-codex-gabriel-chua-ukhic) Gabriel Chua (Developer Experience Engineer for APAC at OpenAI) provides his take on the confusing
We’ve made GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark about 30% faster. It is now serving at over 1200 tokens per second. — Thibault Sottiaux (https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2024947946849186064), OpenAI
Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" (https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126) Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are
I've been wanting to add indications of my various other online activities to my blog for a while now. I just turned on a new feature I'm calling "beats" (after story beats, naming this was hard!)
Taalas serves Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens/second (https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/) This new Canadian hardware startup just announced their first product - a custom hardware
ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759) I don't normally cover acquisition news like this, but I have some
Long running agentic products like Claude Code are made feasible by prompt caching which allows us to reuse computation from previous roundtrips and significantly decrease latency and cost. [...] At
Gemini 3.1 Pro (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/) The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input,
I've long been resistant to the idea of accepting sponsorship for my blog. I value my credibility as an independent voice, and I don't want to risk compromising that reputation. Then I learned about
SWE-bench February 2025 leaderboard update (https://www.swebench.com/) SWE-bench is one of the benchmarks that the labs love to list in their model releases. The official leaderboard is infrequently
LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption (https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/commit/e87f889e31afbb5fa32c910603c7f5e781c97afd) Back in August 2024
25+ years into my career as a programmer I think I may finally be coming around to preferring type hints or even strong typing. I resisted those in the past because they slowed down the rate at which
The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.UkLv.r-XczfzYRdXJ&smid=url-share) New opinion piece
LLMs are eating specialty skills. There will be less use of specialist front-end and back-end developers as the LLM-driving skills become more important than the details of platform usage. Will this
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6) Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5
Rodney v0.4.0 (https://github.com/simonw/rodney/releases/tag/v0.4.0) My Rodney (https://github.com/simonw/rodney) CLI tool for browser automation attracted quite the flurry of PRs since I announced
This is the story of the United Space Ship Enterprise. Assigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worlds and
But the intellectually interesting part for me is something else. I now have something close to a magic box where I throw in a question and a first answer comes back basically for free, in terms of
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day (https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2026-media-releases/first-kakapo-chick-in-four-years-hatches-on-valentines-day/) First