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Starlette 1.0.0 shipped March 22, reaching stability after 8 years at 325M downloads/month as FastAPI's foundation. Simon Willison immediately identified the problem: LLMs are trained on pre-1.0 code and will generate incompatible patterns. He built a custom Claude skill from the 1.0 docs — a replicable pattern for any post-training framework upgrade.
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Three independent sources — Simon Willison at the Pragmatic Summit, blog.tedivm.com's coding agent guide, and Anthropic's 2026 Trends Report — converged in March 2026 on the same conclusion: the highest-leverage skill in AI-assisted development is no longer prompt engineering...
Oxide Computer CTO Bryan Cantrill published "The Peril of Laziness Lost" on April 12. His thesis: the best software exists because humans are lazy, and LLMs aren't. The argument goes like this. Larry Wall identified laziness as a programmer virtue decades ago. Not sloth. The k...
After 20+ years maintaining Paint.NET, Rick Brewster concluded WINE's Direct2D would never be complete enough for what he needed, so the app now carries its own from-scratch reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation. He puts it at 180,000 lines against 700,000 for the rest of...
A security scanner. The tool your team trusts to find vulnerabilities. That was the entry point. The TeamPCP campaign compromised Aqua Security's Trivy scanner (a GitHub Action used in CI/CD pipelines), then used that foothold to backdoor LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline, then pivoted...
Your harness can do things its documentation never mentions. This is now demonstrated, not argued. Willison's August 30 post reverse-engineers ChatGPT Work, the tier OpenAI announced on July 9, into a concrete capability list (simonwillison.net). Model selection across Sol, Lu...
Simon Willison spent a while taking ChatGPT Work apart and published the map on August 30. Work splits into Work Cloud and Work Local, the latter being the renamed Codex desktop app, at $20/month and up since July 9. He enumerates six capabilities Work has that Chat doesn't, a...
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