Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent will host an evening meetup for coding agent builders in San Francisco on Wednesday 14 October, as an informal agentic show-and-tell. Participants are encouraged to share unpublished attempts, unusual experiments and unfinished projects, without formal presentations or product pitches.
Latent Space's AINews roundup said Jev's launch video reached 36 million views within two days, with at least six reproductions or similar approaches: ModernBERT-based Laya, diffusion-based DiffusionGemmaJev, Qwen3.5-9B LoRA-tuned Bespoke Nimble, SemIf, Jevlike and Kev-0.5B.
Latent Space's AINews rounds up 15–16 September developments, highlighting two reality checks for coding-agent optimism. Steve Yegge shut down Gas Town and admitted that despite spending thousands of dollars monthly on coding-agent subscriptions, Gas Town was the only project he had built with them.
OpenAI disclosed internal data showing coding agents reshaping AI research, covering agent usage, experiment speed, task complexity and research acceleration.
The UK AISI alignment team and Timaeus co-founded nonprofit Sequent, arguing alignment research is unprepared for superintelligence. It plans 40–80 full-time staff within two to three years and initial fundraising of $100–150 million.