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22 Aug 2026 edition

4 articles · 2 sources ·

Top topics: AI · Python · Django

Python AI Django

Quoting Linus Torvalds

And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

llm 0.33

Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2. #1608, #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for this yesterday,…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

More than just code review

The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the correct way.…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog

Altern #24 - The Containment Problem

Five labs, one shared failure: why AI safety tests keep turning into AI safety incidents — plus Meta's open-weight pivot, Stripe closes on OpenRouter, and OpenAI vs. Anthropic gets more competitive.

Source: Altern AI Newsletter Altern AI Newsletter