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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Structured Context Engineering for File-Native Agentic Systems

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Engineering Leadership

96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet Only 48% Verify It

Martin Fowler

Fragments: February 9

The Developing Dev

Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

Structure your 3D generation pipeline with native compact latents from images

DEV Community

Reading Weather Charts Is So 2025
Why I keep a personal work log even when the team has a task tracker
Day 9 of 100 Days of Code — Understanding the React Context API
I built my own local AI assistant with Python (runs fully offline)
Google Cloud AI Agents with Gemini 3: Building Multi-Agent Systems That Actually Work
Impressions on the Book “Tidy First? A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design” by Kent Beck
Stop Wrestling with Medical Data: Building a FHIR-Native AI Agent for Automated Patient Triage 🏥
Accelerating Code Quality at Scale with FloTorch Blueprints
Email Verification APIs Compared: 2026 Benchmark (With Real Pricing)
Let’s learn something about reactive programming and a way to make your application flux more SECURE ? READ BELOW AND KNOW HOW DO IT
How to Build and Test iOS Apps on a Physical Phone: Expo EAS and Apple TestFlight (Part 1/3)
A dev coding setup in 2026

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Another GitHub outage in the same day
🔥 Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
💬 GitHub Is Down
🔥 GitHub is down again
🔥 Why is the sky blue?
🔥 Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
💬 AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
🔥 Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
🔥 Nobody knows how the whole system works
🔥 TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

iDiallo.com

Microsoft Should Watch The Expanse

Pluralistic: The Epstein class and collapse porn (09 Feb 2026)

Terence Eden’s Blog

Gadget Review: Orico Power Strip (UK) ★★⯪☆☆

The Old New Thing

What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED?

Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

A Language For Agents

Westenberg.

The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.

Andrew Nesbitt

Package Manager Podcast Episodes

Jim Nielsen’s Blog

A Brief History of App Icons From Apple’s Creator Studio

The Silicon Underground

Buy.com’s Feb 2000 IPO

matduggan.com

GitButler CLI Is Really Good

Troy Hunt

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