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Saturday, February 14, 2026
Simon Willison

Quoting Thoughtworks

A Thoughtworks retreat challenged assumptions about AI's impact on software engineering careers, revealing that junior developers are becoming more valuable while mid-level engineers face the...

Friday, February 13, 2026
Simon Willison

Anthropic's public benefit mission

Anthropic, unlike OpenAI, is a public benefit corporation rather than a non-profit, so it doesn't file annual IRS documents. However, Certificate of Incorporation documents from Delaware reveal that...

Simon Willison

The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement

Simon Willison analyzed OpenAI's tax filings from 2016-2024 to track changes in their mission statement, revealing how the company has gradually shifted from open collaboration to centralized control...

anthropics/claude-code

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.42

Claude Code v2.1.42 delivers faster startup and better performance with improved prompt caching and schema optimizations. The release also includes bug fixes for resume functionality and image...

anthropics/claude-code

anthropics/claude-code - 10 releases (v2.1.42 to v2.1.31)

Claude Code v2.1.42 introduces fast mode for Opus 4.6 along with significant improvements to performance, agent teams functionality, and user experience across 10 releases. The updates focus on...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

I Just Did a Full Day of Analyst Work in 10 Minutes. The $120K Job Description Just Changed Forever.

Claude's integration with Excel and PowerPoint represents a seismic shift in professional work, with AI now capable of producing Goldman Sachs-quality financial models and presentations in minutes...

Universe of AI

MiniMax M2.5 IS INSANE! Best Opensource Coding Model! Beats Opus 4.6 and 20x Cheaper! (Fully Tested)

MiniMax M2.5 is a new open-source AI model that achieves competitive coding performance with proprietary models like Claude Opus. Open-source models can now match proprietary performance while being...

Wes Roth

AI Video Just Went TOO FAR... NOT OK!

This video appears to demonstrate concerning examples of AI-generated video content that has crossed ethical boundaries. The title suggests AI video technology has reached problematic capabilities...

Thursday, February 12, 2026
Simon Willison

Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a faster coding model developed through their Cerebras partnership. This model prioritizes speed over quality, generating code at up to 1,000 tokens per second -...

The Pragmatic Engineer

The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin

Andre Breslav, creator of Kotlin, discusses how he built one of the world's most influential programming languages by deliberately borrowing proven ideas from Scala, C#, and Groovy rather than...