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Monday, March 16, 2026
Simon Willison

Use subagents and custom agents in Codex

OpenAI Codex has launched subagents in general availability, allowing developers to coordinate multiple specialized AI agents for complex coding tasks. This represents the mainstream adoption of...

Simon Willison

Anthropic Uses 'Blackmail Exercise' to Make AI Misalignment Risks Real for Policymakers

Anthropic's alignment team conducted a "blackmail exercise" to demonstrate AI misalignment risks to policymakers. The exercise was designed to make abstract safety concerns visceral and tangible for...

Simon Willison

Apple's MacBook Neo Camera Light Uses Secure Enclave for Hardware-Level Privacy Protection

Apple's MacBook Neo implements a software-based camera indicator light that runs in a secure enclave, making it nearly as secure as a hardware light. This innovation bridges the gap between software...

Simon Willison

Coding agents for data analysis

A comprehensive workshop handout demonstrating how to use AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex for data journalism tasks. The guide shows data journalists how to leverage AI agents to...

Simon Willison

How coding agents work

Coding agents are software that act as a harness for LLMs, extending their capabilities with additional tools and invisible prompts. Understanding their architecture helps developers apply these...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Claude Code Wiped 2.5 Years of Data. The Engineer Who Built It Couldn't Stop It.

Vibe coders who learned to build software by describing what they want to AI tools are hitting a wall as these tools have evolved into autonomous agents. The core challenge is that agent management...

IndyDevDan

The Library Meta-Skill: How I Distribute PRIVATE Skills, Agents and Prompts

As engineers scale from single agents to teams of agents across multiple codebases, they face a critical distribution problem - skills, agents, and prompts become scattered, duplicated, and out of...

Universe of AI

Claude Code + Obsidian = UNLIMITED Memory! Solves Claude's Memory Problem!

This video demonstrates how to solve Claude's memory limitations by integrating it with Obsidian, a free note-taking app that stores information as markdown files. By creating a persistent knowledge...

Sunday, March 15, 2026
Simon Willison

What is agentic engineering?

Agentic engineering is a new software development approach where coding agents write and execute code in loops to achieve goals. Unlike traditional AI coding assistance, these agents can run their...

Saturday, March 14, 2026
AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Whoop Is Hiring 600 People. Everyone Else Is Cutting. One Side Is Wrong (It's Not Who You Think)

While companies debate cutting jobs due to AI, the smartest operators are asking a fundamentally different question: what becomes possible when execution costs drop by orders of magnitude? The...