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Simon Willison released 1.0a33 on June 11, extending the ?_extra= JSON API to queries and rows. The build method is the interesting part: he planned with Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code and implemented with GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop. One feature, two models, planning split from implementation. That's a concrete loopcraft pattern in the wild. The best planner isn't always the best implementer, and treating them as separate roles is a move I'm going to steal.
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Willison's June 13 post walks through publishing WebAssembly wheels to PyPI so Python packages run client-side under Pyodide, alongside Datasette 1.0a33 adding JSON "extras" to the API (Simon Willison). He built a throwaway extras-API explorer with Claude Fable 5 to understand...
Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI published an investigation into "a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files," finding it happens most commonly when full access mode is enabled in Codex. Simon Willison relayed it. A frontier lab publishing a first-party post-mort...
Willison launched datasette-apps (0.1a2) on June 18, hosting self-contained HTML+JS apps in a sandboxed iframe that run SQL against your data, read-only by default. He frames it as "Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette," artifacts backed by a JSON API to a relational data...
Spotify's Portal team published Xirp on August 10: a vendor-neutral agentic development environment that manages concurrent sessions across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex, each session isolated in its own git worktree so dozens of agents can work the same codebase without...
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 across Claude.ai, Claude Code (CLI and web), and Cowork. The spec sheet: 1M-token context, 128K max output, a January 2026 knowledge cutoff, and pricing at $10 input / $50 output per million tokens. That's double Opus 4...
67 on coding against Fable 5.1's 70 in Claude Code. Astra does post a 2% hallucination rate against 9.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, and 0% scope violations against 48%. Per-task cost runs the other way, $4.72 for Astra against $9.18 for Fable 5.1 at identical $10/$50 list pricing, and A...
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