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Saturday, April 11, 2026


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Wednesday, April 8, 2026


Simon Willison

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

Meta announced Muse Spark, their first model release in a year, competing with top-tier AI models while introducing two distinct reasoning modes on meta.ai. The model offers "Instant" and "Thinking"...

The Pragmatic Engineer

DHH’s new way of writing code

DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, discusses how AI agents are transforming software development from simple autocomplete to autonomous coding workflows. He shares how he went from AI skeptic to "agent...

Simon Willison

Quoting Giles Turnbull

This brief piece highlights a key insight about AI adoption patterns. People eagerly use AI to try other professions but resist when AI targets their own work - revealing a fundamental hypocrisy in...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

I Analyzed 512,000 Lines of Leaked Code. It Shows What's Coming for Your AI Tools.

Anthropic's leaked code reveals Conway, an unannounced always-on AI agent that represents a shift from model competition to platform lock-in through behavioral memory. This analysis exposes how AI...

Swift.org

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

Swift programming language support is now available across a wider range of popular IDEs including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS's Kiro, and Google's Antigravity through the Open VSX Registry. This expansion...

Universe of AI

Claude Mythos Preview Will Change The World! Deepseek V4 Demos, & GLM 5.1! AI NEWS!

Anthropic released Claude Mythos preview, a powerful AI model that can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities better than human experts, prompting the creation of Project Glass Wing - a major...

Sunday, April 5, 2026


Simon Willison

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

A developer shares their experience building syntaqlite, a comprehensive SQLite development toolkit, revealing how AI excels at implementation but struggles with architectural decisions. The project...

Simon Willison

Quoting Chengpeng Mou

OpenAI data reveals significant healthcare-related ChatGPT usage patterns, with millions seeking health insurance information weekly and many users in underserved areas. The data shows ChatGPT is...

Simon Willison

Syntaqlite Playground

Simon Willison created a browser-based playground for syntaqlite, a tool that provides advanced SQL validation and formatting capabilities for SQLite queries. The tool was inspired by Lalit Maganti's...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Your Agent Produces at 100x. Your Org Reviews at 3x. That's the Problem.

OpenClaw and AI agents can rapidly build impressive software like CRMs and SaaS replacements, but the real risk is using agents to paper over foundational problems instead of fixing underlying data,...

Universe of AI

OpenAI Spud (GPT 6), Claude Conway, GPT Image 2, Cursor 3, Claude Code Ultra, & More! AI NEWS!

This week brought major AI announcements across the industry, including OpenAI's upcoming Spud model (potentially GPT-6), new image generation capabilities, and significant developments from...

Simon Willison

scan-for-secrets 0.2

scan-for-secrets 0.2 improves the CLI tool's usability and adds new Python API functions. The key improvement is streaming results as they're found instead of waiting until the end, making it much...

Simon Willison

scan-for-secrets 0.1.1

Release: scan-for-secrets 0.1.1 Added documentation of the escaping schemes that are also scanned. Removed unnecessary repr escaping scheme, which was already covered by json.

Simon Willison

scan-for-secrets 0.1

Simon Willison released scan-for-secrets 0.1, a Python tool that scans directories for API keys and other secrets to prevent accidental exposure in published logs. The tool can detect secrets even...