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Infra2026-08-27 · source-backed
CCP announced the migration covering code that has run on Stackless 2.7 since 2010. The approach is to run futurize across the codebase and then manually review roughly 20,000 places where Python 2 and 3 behavior diverges, including integer division (Simon Willison). No completion date given, and no mention of agents anywhere. That's a useful counterweight to the claim that large migrations are now an agent problem, from a team with 16 years of context on the specific codebase.
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He argues a project's real shared language isn't English or Python but the common understanding of concepts, boundaries, invariants, and ownership, and that pre-AI friction like reviews and cross-team communication quietly did the work of aligning that. (Simon Willison) His wa...
I've been skeptical of "just have AI rewrite your codebase" advice because most of it comes from people who haven't actually done it in production. This week, three independent teams published results that changed my mind, with a very specific caveat. Reco.ai rewrote JSONata (...
He handed Claude Fable 5, in Claude Code for web, the job of evaluating whether smolvm 1.8.3 could safely run untrusted Python and JavaScript under strict constraints. Verdict: it fits, with hardware-isolated VMs rather than shared-kernel containers, enforced CPU/RAM limits, g...
React to a bug report with a designated emoji to auto-triage it, or set a codebase-change or timer trigger, no prompt required. (Cursor) One caveat that matters: these run unattended, so scope their permissions tight. And for reproducible agent-driven CI, Simon Willison's UV_E...
Riffing on Apple's DRI management concept, he argues accountability requires an entity that can actually be held responsible, and a machine cannot (Simon Willison). It's a sharp, quotable counterweight to the "let the agent own it end-to-end" enthusiasm. I keep this one close...
This is the case study I'll be pointing people to for months. Simon Willison shipped sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 on July 5, his first major version bump since 2020, with most of the code written by "Claude Fable" across 37 prompts and 34 commits, for about $149.25 total. The number th...
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