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Simon Willison: the key skill with coding agents is giving instructions and verifying results, not reading every line

Simon Willison argues that a key skill when working with coding agents is being able to give them clear instructions and then verify the correctness of the changes made – and that reading every line of code is not the most effective way to do this.

What you get out of it

Developers working with coding agents should develop two specific skills – giving the agent clear instructions and verifying that the changes made match the task – while recognizing that reading every line of code is neither the only nor the most effective way to verify this.

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Delegating work to generative AI carries a hidden risk of fabricated facts and declining critical thinking

The cases involving the South African government and Deloitte showed that AI can invent citations and authors. A survey of 48 000 people found that 66 % of them use AI regularly, but 61 % have no training and the main motivation is fear of falling behind, not quality.

What you get out of it

Anyone who uses AI outputs without verifying the underlying source material will not recognize the risk of fabricated facts or citations until it causes a problem – and without training (which 61 % of users lack, according to the cited survey), these blind spots are harder to recognize.

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A typology of four kinds of answers from AI systems for assessing their reliability

A librarian at University of Virginia proposes dividing answers from AI systems into four types – factual, interpretive, constructive and strategic – with a different verification process for each.

What you get out of it

When making a decision based on an answer from an AI system (e.g. to a health or personal question), first identify the type of answer and then choose how to verify it, rather than relying on its fluent and persuasive tone.

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Al Gore: the main risk of AI is the automation of work, not data center emissions

Al Gore said in an interview with TechCrunch that emissions from AI data centers are negligible compared with those from air conditioning and landfills; in his view, the real threat lies in warnings from leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic about job losses due to automation.

What you get out of it

Increasing warnings from experts at OpenAI and Anthropic about the impact of automation on jobs, which Gore describes as sincere, suggest that the expert community is taking the risk of job losses due to AI increasingly seriously, rather than viewing it merely as marketing rhetoric.

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OpenAI context update Coding

OpenAI advises simplifying skills and guardrails for the GPT-6 Astra model

Eric Provencher from OpenAI issued recommendations on 12. 9. 2026 on how to shorten skill descriptions, limit mandatory documentation reading in AGENTS.md and reconsider guardrails for the GPT-6 Astra model—according to the company, accumulated rules unnecessarily take up context and stop the model's work prematurely.

New: Eric Provencher from OpenAI issued specific recommendations for simplifying prompts and guardrails; Shorter and more specific prompts improve the performance of the GPT-6 Astra model; Unnecessary guardrails and blanket rules hamper performance; Skills are Markdown files containing instructions that are selected based on their descriptions; Long skill descriptions lead to poor selections and context for you

What you get out of it

Developers working with Codex and the GPT-6 Astra model should shorten and clarify their custom skill descriptions during the transition and check whether approval rules unnecessarily restrict the model.

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Claude model API outage lasting over two hours is resolved

On 18 August 2026, Anthropic addressed a Claude API outage involving increased error rates and degraded performance across multiple Claude models; the impact lasted 16:11–18:23 UTC and was resolved at 19:01 UTC.

What you get out of it

Anyone using Claude API during the period 16:11–18:23 UTC on 18 August 2026 may have experienced request errors or slower responses; the problem is now resolved and no further action is necessary.

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Simon Willison: coding agents make software engineering harder, not easier

Independent commentator Simon Willison claims that the more he works with coding agents, the more convinced he is that they make software engineering harder. According to him, their full potential is unlocked only by exceptional discipline and knowledge.

What you get out of it

A developer using coding agents should expect that their benefit does not come automatically, but requires sustained discipline in checking and managing their outputs.

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AI photo editors are moving from editing to reconstructing image content

According to Root.cz, AI photo editors are ceasing to be passive tools and beginning to actively reconstruct image content – computing details and smoothing textures without metadata distinguishing this from the original capture.

What you get out of it

Photographers should be aware that common AI features in editors (filling in details, smoothing textures) are no longer just technical corrections, but may actually compute or create part of an image without the resulting file or metadata clearly distinguishing it from the original capture.

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Simon Willison: programming experience retains its value even after the arrival of AI coding agents

In his commentary on the “Feeling sad about AI” discussion, Simon Willison describes how the initial disappointment programmers feel at the speed of AI agents usually fades once they realize that plenty of other work remains where their experience can be put to use.

What you get out of it

According to the author, experienced programmers retain their value even in the age of AI agents because they can use these tools more effectively than beginners and focus on problems beyond simply writing code.

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Apple, through new CEO John Ternus, confirms an AI strategy built around iPhone and on-device data processing

The new CEO of Apple, John Ternus, called iPhone the best AI device at the Surprise and Shine event and emphasized that Apple Intelligence prioritizes running on-device to protect user privacy.

What you get out of it

Apple states that Apple Intelligence runs on-device whenever possible, so iPhone users should have greater control over their personal data than with solutions that send it elsewhere for processing.

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An AI battle on both sides of hiring: applicants and recruiters are making things worse for each other, according to Greenhouse

Applicants pay tools such as Jobscan for AI optimization of their CVs for ATS filters, while recruiters deploy their own AI screening in ATS because of the flood of similar applications — according to the CEO of Greenhouse, this is a “doom loop” in which AI on both sides makes the problem worse.

What you get out of it

Job applicants who pay to optimize their CVs with tools such as Jobscan rely on the assumption that an AI filter evaluates their application — but according to the source, that assumption does not hold universally, so investing in these tools may not have the desired effect, and the paid service also has no incentive to get applicants off the job market quickly.

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AI remediation: a new category of work to check and correct AI outputs

According to an analysis by The Conversation, a new category of work is emerging called AI remediation – people checking and correcting erroneous outputs from language models. White-collar workers in finance, tech and retail report that this is actually adding to their workload.

What you get out of it

Anyone using AI tools in their work must reckon with the fact that verifying and correcting outputs can take up a substantial part of the time saved, rather than counting on an automatic time saving.

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