Haiku 4.5 and the collapsing cost of good-enough
A small model at frontier-adjacent coding performance, priced for volume. The economics of agent fleets just changed.
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older dispatches from the README archive.
Windows 10 reaches end of support
A very large number of machines stop getting security updates. The e-waste and the enterprise scramble are both real.
DevDay: AgentKit, Apps in ChatGPT, and a platform play
OpenAI ships an agent builder, an app SDK, and a distribution channel. The strategy is now unambiguous.
Python 3.14 makes free-threading official
The GIL-free build graduates from experimental, template strings land, and annotations finally get lazy evaluation.
The pull request is the wrong unit of review
It was designed for occasional contributions from strangers. We use it for everything, including code a machine wrote.
Sora 2 and the feed nobody asked for
A better video model wrapped in a social app, with a cameo feature that makes consent the whole product question.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the agent that runs for thirty hours
A model tuned for long-horizon autonomous work, plus checkpoints and context editing in the SDK.
OpenAI and Nvidia sign a circular deal
Up to $100 billion of investment tied to gigawatts of deployment. The financing structures are getting interesting.
Rust 1.90 and the linker nobody talks about
LLD becomes the default linker on x86-64 Linux. Link times drop and nobody notices, which is the point.
Shai-Hulud: npm gets a self-replicating worm
A payload that steals credentials and then uses them to publish itself into other packages. This is the escalation everyone predicted.
iPhone 17, the Air, and a modem that finally isn't Qualcomm's
A19 Pro, a very thin phone as a technology demonstrator, and Apple's first in-house cellular modem shipping at scale.
chalk and debug get compromised, and 2 billion weekly downloads flinch
A phishing email to a maintainer, eighteen packages, and a crypto-stealing payload in the browser.
The monorepo question has a boring answer
It's not about repository count. It's about whether you can make an atomic change across your system.
The Nx compromise and the credential-stealing postinstall
A popular build tool's npm packages ship a payload that harvests tokens and pushes them to public repos.
The image model that finally does consistent characters
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image nails identity preservation across edits. That's a bigger deal than the memes suggest.
Pixel 10 and the on-device model as a platform feature
Tensor G5 moves to TSMC, and Gemini Nano gets an API surface that third-party apps can actually use.
Caching is the only optimization that reliably works
A hierarchy of caches, the two hard problems, and why your p99 is bad in a way profiling won't show you.
Perplexity bids $34.5 billion for Chrome
A company worth less than its offer bids for a browser that isn't for sale. The interesting part is why anyone would.
GPT-5 lands with a router and a backlash
One model that decides how hard to think, an abrupt deprecation of everything else, and a lesson about attachment.
Rust 1.89 and the long tail of const generics
Inferred array lengths in const generic position, plus x86 SIMD stabilizations that matter for anyone doing math.