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AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/actions/python-versions/commit/49858b91c92d27403416ee43117032e91d00ce24">Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions</a></strong></p> Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting f…

Engineering Hacker News
Build your own decision model

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/">https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037949">https:/…

Engineering Hacker News
Takeshi's Castle

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036119">https://news.yc…

SAP SAP Community
How to find out the BRF+ calling program?

<P>Hi Experts,</P><P>I have GUID for an existing ZBRF+ FM in a Z*BRF application.</P><P>I am unable to find which Z* program is using this BRF+ FM ?</P><P>I tried various ways to do this like :</P><P>i) Executing the pro…

Engineering Hacker News
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/">https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035530">https:/…

Engineering Hacker News
Knuth reward check

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/">https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034081">https://news.yc…

Engineering Hacker News
Bitwarden Dual License Model

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750">https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="…

Engineering Hacker News
Unikernels were hard. key word: were

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/">https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033357">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033357</…

SAP SAP Community
SAC rolling forecast not taking previous year actuals

<P>Hi All,</P><P>I am building a rolling forecast input form to populate forecast version data based on previous 4 montsh actuals.</P><P>In my model i am having data from Sep 2025 to Sep 2026.&nbsp;<BR />When i am taking…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting The New York Times

<blockquote cite="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/technology/anthropic-rogue-ai-agents.html"><p>Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintende…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Deno is joining Cloudflare

<p><strong><a href="https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare">Deno is joining Cloudflare</a></strong></p> The Deno team released the first version of <a href="https://github.com/denoland/celld">celld</a> back in August - their o…

SAP SAP Community
ABAP Sessions at SAP TechEd 2026

<P>Hey Everyone!</P><P><A href="https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html" target="_self"><STRONG>SAP TechEd in 2026</STRONG></A> is just around the corner, and preparations are in full swing at SAP! This year event series…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Matthew Green

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108552414978564418"><p>Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice

<p>I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the <a href="https://simonwillison.net/newsletters/">Newsletters</a> page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free <a href="https://simonw…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
ttok 1.0

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/ttok/releases/tag/1.0">ttok 1.0</a></p> <p>I released <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/8/ttok/">ttok 0.4</a>, ran <code>uv tool upgrade ttok</cod…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
ttok 0.4

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/ttok/releases/tag/0.4">ttok 0.4</a></p> <p><code>ttok</code> is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source <a href="https://github.com/open…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Carson Gross

<blockquote cite="https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/"><p>Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things:</p> <ul> <li>Problem-solving using computers</li> <li>Learning to control complexity while solving these pr…

Architecture InfoQ Architecture
Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/clef-decision-models/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791183801035.jpg"/><p>During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models de…

AI InfoQ AI/ML
Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/clef-decision-models/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791183801035.jpg"/><p>During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models de…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Ben Affleck

<blockquote cite="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzraLR2VkNM&amp;t=2259s"><p>I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more inter…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Claude Haiku 5.5

<p>As previously <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/28/claude-sonnet-5-5/">promised</a>, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5">Introducing Claude Haiku…

Architecture InfoQ Architecture
Presentation: The Reinvention of the Dev Team

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/agentic-dev-teams/en/mediumimage/medium-1790242915891.jpeg"/><p>Hannah Foxwell shares how the surge of agentic coding forces engineering leaders to rethink team dynamics. She…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
The state of the tech industry in 2026

A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: October 4

<p>In response to my <a href="https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-09-29.html">last fragments</a> (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

Cockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and how AI helps him write more code without sacrificing quality.…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Principles for effective slides

<div class = 'img-link'><a href = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/never-send-slides/slide-principles.html'><img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/never-send-slides/index/card.png' width = ''></img></a></div> <p…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
Why has Shopify dropped React Native?

It’s only been a year since the e-commerce platform declared it was very happy with React Native, but now Shopify is dumping it – and the reason, unsurprisingly, is AI…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Bliki: Sensible Default

<p>A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version con…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: September 29

<p><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/24/harder/">Simon Willison:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: September 24

<p>Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with <a href="https://blog.robbowley.net/2026/09/18/the-ai-threat-is-real-it-just-isnt-the-one-in-the-headlines/">anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI kil…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Healthy Feedback

<div class = 'img-link'><a href = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/healthy-peer-feedback.html'><img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/healthy-peer-feedback/card.png' width = '350px'></img></a></div> <p>Human col…

Architecture The Open Group
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Transformation

<p>Guest blog written by Divyesh Lappawala, Senior Technology Architect – Infosys</p> <p>The following article is written in reference to The Open Group Publication Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Transformation…

Architecture Martin Fowler
I don't like LLMs

<p>I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other h…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
AI Skills with Matt Pocock

Matt Pocock explains how he uses AI coding skills and agents to plan and build software, and why engineering fundamentals matter more than ever.…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: September 16

<p>Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/openai-agents-rubygems/">Simon…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Nail the Narrative

<div class = 'img-link'><a href = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/never-send-slides/nail-your-narrative.html'><img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/never-send-slides/index/card.png' width = ''></img></a></div>…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Social Media Engagement: summer 2026

<div class = 'img-link'><a href = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-social-traffic.html'><img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-social-traffic/card.png' width = '350px'></img></a></div> <p>A quick surve…

Architecture The Open Group
Discussing the Release of the ArchiMate® 4 Specification

<p>Written by Neil Francis, The Open Group</p> <p>We sat down with Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie, Chair of the ArchiMate® Forum, and Kelly Cannon, ArchiMate Forum Director, at The Open Group Summit in Oslo, Norway on April 28th…