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What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate

I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, e

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession t

I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all

Welcome to the Datasette blog We have a bunch of neat Datasette announcements in the pipeline so we decided it was time the project grew an official blog. I bui

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past tw

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently , no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page , wh