On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk.
Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. They've started manifesting on Bluesky as well. Unlike Twitter, Bluesky still has a freely available and useful API.
Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026.
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”
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Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done.
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
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Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request.
Lowe’s uses OpenAI models to power Mylow and Mylow Companion, helping customers and associates answer 25M+ questions and move home improvement projects forward.
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA New 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best photo of Morris yet. They really like hanging out under that sign in the harbor!
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
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The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge.
Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3
What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.
Google Research published research on long-form video generation, proposing an AI video co-director multi-agent orchestration framework built on Gemini and Veo to plan visual continuity across multi-shot narratives.
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework.
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
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Google's experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.
Build a multi-account architecture that keeps each team's data in its own AWS account while giving AI agents a unified way to query across them. A central platform account runs the agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and MCP, while line-of-business accounts expose their data as MCP servers with secure cross-account access and fine-grained authorization.
Learn how Aderant built an intelligent ticket triage system on Amazon Nova Lite through Amazon Bedrock, automating context gathering, classification, routing, and knowledge enrichment for its cloud operations team.
"There will obviously be legal consequences," prime minister promises.
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
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Meta says the keychain-sized Muse Charm will ship in December.
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