Newsletters: 2026
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I built a new feature for my blog using my voice
Plus Claude Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, and Python 3.15
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OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
Plus we’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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LLM digest: September 2026
- More Fable class models
- A pricing war
- 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art
- LLMs come for mathematics
- So many more accidental cyberattacks
- The vulnapocalypse comes for Datasette
- What I'm using right now
- My software releases this month
- 2026 in LLMs (so far)
- That's it for September!
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models
Plus Gemini Live, and a pelican riding a bicycle in 1988
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Navier–Stokes, RubyGems attacked, GIS and Blender with GPT-6 Astra
Plus a Datasette security release, and a Pluribus Fabergé egg
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GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and yet more rogue agent attacks
Plus Gemini 3.8 Flash - that’s a lot of pelicans riding bicycles!
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LLM digest: August 2026
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Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Plus Bun 1.4 and the latest on Anthropic’s revenue
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Plus Gemini 3.7 Flash, Muse Glimmer, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Plus One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, and a big new LLM release
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· Monthly newsletter
LLM digest: July 2026
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Plus Opus 5, Kimi K3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, and Anthropic got caught accidentally hacking other companies too!
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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
And a fireside chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Plus reverse-engineering Grok Build, Doom in SQLite, and how Codex generates pets
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The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
Plus sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
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Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
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LLM digest: June 2026
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Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions
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Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM
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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
I have a lot to say about Anthropic's new Mythos-class model
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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM
Plus Claude's containers, Uber's AI spending caps and OpenAI's lockdown mode
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LLM digest: May 2026
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Plus Claude Opus 4.8: “a modest but tangible improvement”, and the Pope!
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Datasette Agent: an AI assistant for Datasette built on LLM
Plus Gemini 3.5 Flash and more from Google I/O
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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
Plus updates from Anthropic's Code w/ Claude conference
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LLM digest: April 2026
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GPT 5.5, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen3.6-27B
Plus Claude Code pricing confusion and changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Plus join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year
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Meta’s new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has interesting new tools
Plus Anthropic’s Project Glasswing - Claude Mythos is available only to selected security partners
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Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast
Plus Mr. Chatterbox the Victorian LLM, and Google's excellent new Gemma 4
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LLM digest: March 2026
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Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun
Plus profiling Hacker News users based on their comments and more
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Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff
Plus GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52
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Fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit
Plus five new chapters of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide
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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Plus GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and worrying news concerning team Qwen
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· Monthly newsletter
LLM digest: February 2026
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Agentic Engineering Patterns
Plus vibe coding my dream macOS presentation app, Gemini 3.1 Pro and lots more
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Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat
Plus OpenAI's evolving mission statement and may new pelicans
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Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built
Plus I was given a really nice new mug
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How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
Plus Pydantic's Monty, distributing Go binaries through PyPI, Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3
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· Monthly newsletter
LLM digest: January 2026
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ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files
Plus adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website
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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
Plus Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
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LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends
With promising news for Kākāpō parrot breeding season
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LLM digest: December 2025
