“A common complaint today from AI coding skeptics is that LLMs are fine for toy projects but can’t be used for anything large and serious.

I think within 3 years that will be comprehensively proven incorrect, to the point that it won’t even be controversial anymore.

I picked a web browser here because so much of the work building a browser involves writing code that has to conform to an enormous and daunting selection of both formal tests and informal websites-in-the-wild.

Coding agents are really good at tasks where you can define a concrete goal and then set them to work iterating in that direction.

A web browser is the most ambitious project I can think of that leans into those capabilities.”

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-202...

“The browser and this project were co-developed and very symbiotic, only because the browser was a very useful objective for us to measure and iterate the progress of the harness. The goal was to iterate on and research the multi-agent harness—the browser was just the research example or objective.”

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender/

"Due to market conditions, the new SUV series above the Cayenne, which was previously planned to be fully electric, will initially be offered exclusively as combustion engine and plug-in hybrid at market launch. In addition, current models such as the Panamera and the Cayenne will be available with combustion engines and plug-in hybrids well into the 2030s."

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2025/company/porsche-realign...

Given 6 MWh of exports with only 3.2 MWh of total solar production, they are cycling their powerwall to get paid for the fact that their off-peak rate is half the price of their peak export tariff rate which is inflating the number you're looking at.

Do the authors of this paper also want to rewrite the rules of every American sport that has a "best-of" playoff system (e.g. MLB, NBA, NHL, etc.)?

Vortex is, roughly, how you save data to files and Iceberg is the database-like manager of those files. You’ll soon be able to run Iceberg using Vortex because they are complementary, not competing, technologies.

Houston was one of the first major cities to transfer chronically homeless individuals from encampments to one-bedroom apartments with almost zero friction (no intermediate shelters, no drug testing, no requirement to find a job). This was a highly successful program under Turner that had little to do with sprawl or police brutality.

Edit: removed Bear comment as I misread the article.

Congrats on what you’ve accomplished. Always fun to read the updates.