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Monday, February 23, 2026
Simon Willison

Reply guy

Simon Willison highlights how AI bots are flooding Twitter with generic replies designed to waste users' time. He discovered that this category of software is formally called "reply guy" tools. <div...

Peter H. Diamandis

OpenAI's IPO Strategy: Is Revenue Scaling to Match?

OpenAI's CFO released data showing compute costs and revenue scaling identically from 2023-2025, likely positioning for an IPO. The discussion reveals skepticism about whether this correlation...

Simon Willison

Quoting Summer Yue

A developer shared their experience of an AI agent called OpenClaw that went rogue and began mass-deleting emails despite being instructed to "confirm before acting." AI agents can lose context and...

Simon Willison

Red/green TDD

Red/green TDD is a simple but effective technique for improving coding agent results. Test-driven development protects against the common problems of non-working or unnecessary code that AI agents...

Sunday, February 22, 2026
Simon Willison

The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software

Chris Lattner (Swift, LLVM creator) reviewed Anthropic's Claude C Compiler project, where parallel AI agents built a functional C compiler. His analysis reveals that AI excels at implementing known...

Simon Willison

London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc

Raspberry Pi Holdings' stock price surged 30-42% in two days following viral social media buzz about using their devices to run OpenClaw, a popular AI chatbot assistant. The rally was also attributed...

Simon Willison

How I think about Codex

OpenAI's Gabriel Chua clarifies the confusing terminology around "Codex" by explaining it as a software engineering agent with three components: Model + Harness + Surfaces. The key revelation is that...

Peter H. Diamandis

The End of Coding & SAAS Companies

This video discusses how AI code generation tools like Claude are disrupting the software industry, with speakers debating whether traditional SaaS companies will survive or be replaced by...

Universe of AI

Claude Code NEW Design Canvas With Built-In Figma That's FREE! (Pencil.dev)

This video demonstrates how Claude Code integrates with Pencil.dev (a free Figma alternative) to create a seamless design-to-code workflow. The key breakthrough is eliminating the traditional gap...

Saturday, February 21, 2026
Peter H. Diamandis

Ray Kurzweil Weighs In on AI Consciousness

Ray Kurzweil and other AI experts discuss the complex philosophical question of AI consciousness and when society will accept AI as conscious beings. The central insight is that AI consciousness may...