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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Datasette Agent: an AI assistant for Datasette built on LLM

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

DeepSeek v4, and the end of the OpenAI/Microsoft AGI clause

GPT 5.5, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen3.6-27B

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Meta’s new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has interesting new tools

Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast

Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff

Fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

Agentic Engineering Patterns

Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat

Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files

FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent

LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends

2025: The year in LLMs

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