Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang
Simon Willison quotes an article by Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang on how the Claude Code team does code review.
Simon Willison quotes an article by Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang on how the Claude Code team does code review.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad laid out his vision of the "self-driving company" at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco: AI agents handle most of the grunt work while human value shifts to judgment and taste. He noted that Replit's support tickets are first triaged by agents searching GitHub issues, codebases and Linear tickets, and after human fixes a one-click deploy closes the loop with agents. He argues agents aren't taking jobs but freeing people to spend more time on architecture and discussion.
In a SEMICON West interview, Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi said the company has deployed more than 40 task agents, and some customers can hand a spec to the Synopsys Autonomous Agent to automatically generate and verify RTL — a process that used to take multiple engineers several months — though fully autonomous chip design remains out of reach today.
Simon Willison had Claude Opus 5.5 Max build a Three.js game called Tree Appreciator in the Claude iPhone app, where the gameplay is appreciating differences between two algorithmically generated trees. Claude ran for 3 hours 7 minutes and produced a fairly playable spot-the-difference game with music, animations and an achievement system.
Google DeepMind engineer Haydn Belfield said AI-driven acceleration of AI research has not yet appeared and self-improving AI remains far off. AI now writes over 75% of production code, but roughly 88% of code changes still require human oversight or review; the share of code changes fully handed to AI rose from 7.5% to 11.9%, and the more complex the task, the lower the rate of independent AI completion.
Simon Willison cites Geoffrey Huntley's view: if agents don't use his diagnostics library, relying only on checking and updating AGENTS.md still leads to bias and drift.
OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic member Andrej Karpathy argued that there is a huge gap between the public's perception of LLM capabilities and reality.
The Latent Space podcast hosted Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar for a deep conversation on the current state and direction of Claude Code.
Simon Willison delivered a closing keynote at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, reviewing the key LLM developments of 2026 along a timeline.
Latent Space's swyx announced a revamp of AINews, which has run for 3 years and has over 200,000 subscribers, planning to merge AINews v3 with the tens-of-thousands-member Latent Space Discord, migrate the site to Beehiiv and launch a new homepage.
Simon Willison argues that the more he works with coding agents, the more convinced he is that they make software engineering harder. He says these agents can produce stunning results, but unlocking their full potential requires extreme discipline and knowledge.
Endura Therapeutics CEO Adrian Sanborn proposes two ways biotech can adapt to AI: Foundries, which use new technology to speed up experimental data output by an order of magnitude, and Navigators, which use AI to accelerate the knowledge work around experiments.
Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent will co-host a Birds of a Feather event for coding agent developers in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 14, an informal agentic show-and-tell for sharing experiments. Sharing is encouraged but not required, product pitches are explicitly excluded, and unreleased work, quirky experiments, and unfinished projects without an obvious market are welcome.
A user named voxium says that two weeks into a job at a large company, they found that all output—specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets—is generated by Claude Code, with engineers from L1 to L7 pushed to deliver fast. Management insists shipping code isn't the bottleneck and questions why work is slow, while employees work 12 to 13 hours a day just pressing Enter, with almost no one actually reading the content.
The GitHub Podcast breaks down five common AI hot takes one by one. Key conclusions: AI-generated code still needs review scaled to risk; Skills and MCP solve different problems, with MCP providing a standard for tool and data access while Skills package team workflows and best practices in Markdown, making them complementary; RAG is not dead—retrieval brings models closer to answers and can coexist with agents, MCP, and Skills in the same workflow.
Import AI issue 470: METR research finds AI brings significant speedups to cybersecurity discoveries, modest contributions to math, but no measurable acceleration yet for optimizing AI research algorithms. Teams from multiple universities propose the SPADE framework, which co-evolves environment synthesis with agent capabilities via self-play, reaching an average score of 58.3 on a suite of game environments with Qwen3-30B-A3B, 5.3 above the baseline. This issue also introduces Hawkeye, for building better GPU kernels.
In Import AI 455, Jack Clark judges there is more than a 60% probability of fully automated AI R&D (models autonomously training their own successors) by the end of 2028, and 30% for 2027.