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- Note on 24th September 2026
- commit-rewriter 0.2
- datasette 1.0a41
- Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
- Shadow roots, explained with live examples
- SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
- Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
- llm 0.36
- Quoting @therealcornpop
- llm-anthropic 0.29
- llm-typesafe 0.1a0
- Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
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