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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
Plus 4 links and 3 quotations and 9 beats
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Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause
LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor
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A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API
Where’s the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)
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Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
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Meta’s new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me
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