I've written a long blog post about AI Agents and the need for those running services to prepare - technically, operationally, commercially, strategically, legally and in terms of policy. AI Agents could be a properly huge deal. There. I wrote it. loosemore.com/2026/08/04/k...

Know Your Agent: Why you should act now, to avoid playing catch-up later

Back in March, I was beaten by the bins. I’d spent a happy few evenings (and a great many tokens) trying to build a simple web app: share any UK address, find out which bins to put out, and w…

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Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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One thing UK people should do before they need it (related to the current conversation on @mrjamesob.bsky.social ) is get the lasting power of attorney stuff sorted out BEFORE you need it. Just gone through this for my mum and it is worth considering.

This is such a great, thoughtful piece…🙌👇

Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 2w ago

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights via giftlink. First this week theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey explains why she declined to help Anthropic with Claude's moral schooling as.ft.com/r/15d7fd75-a...

I had never thought about it like this - code didn't matter before but it does now because the computers depend on it not humans - but now put this way it makes total sense. Is this a good thing? Dunno davidwhitney.co.uk/blog/2026/07...

Computers Finally Care About Code · David Whitney

David Whitney is a technologist, software architect, conference speaker and author based in London. Available for talks and corporate bookings.

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Genuinely looks as though the Spain team have brought along a satirical cardboard cutout for a laugh.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 2w ago

cruise (maintaining intense eye contact and leaning forward to perform active listening): cookies? that’s fantastic, wow

thanks to whoever left this awesome giant sheep outside the museum! we're sure nothing bad is going to happen

This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.

Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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Always liked Lukaku 😀😀😀. Top shithousery #worldcup

I feel this in my bones

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as promised, here is my post on AI and ethics. I think unilateral disarmament in the face of powerful new tools is neither wise nor effective. I think those of us in tech have a particular responsibility to engage, participate and build better solutions. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-bo...

Ugh, every time I learn a new fact about Haaland I find myself liking him more and more, it’s terrible.

Jennifer A.@jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · last mo.

If you aren't rooting for Erling Braut Haaland and the Norwegian soccer team in the World Cup, you really should be. This dude is everything that is good. www.time.kommune.no/aktuelt/engl...

I wrote about the Trump regime's flailing attempt to co-opt the World Cup in service of their blood-and-soil politics, and why it's important to reject this messaging and engage in the joy of an event that is antithetical to the fascist worldview. badfaithtimes.com/fascists-are...

Fascists Aren't Allowed To Enjoy The World Cup

You don't get to delight in a joyful worldwide sporting event that rejects your shithead politics

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Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍

This was just shared by @naomialderman.bsky.social and it deserves the widest possible audience. Ladies and gentlemen and all others, for your graphic design delight, I present… … the logo for the Paris Tennis School.

37 degrees in London for three days is it? YIKES. Time to review the Shade the UK list of ideas again to see if there’s anything further I can do on the flat. (Main thing is getting at least a temporary canopy up over the sunny patio, I suspect) So many ideas: www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...

Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes — Shade the UK

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This is very sweet from @roberthutton.co.uk - how the Abbey National ended up writing back to correspondence for Sherlock Holmes after they moved into 221B Baker Street www.ft.com/content/004c...

I REALLY don’t like Alexi Lalas, but this moment of World Cup punditry yesterday was incredible. Lalas calls James Corden a “full-kit wanker” (a vulgar British term for a fan who wears the entire soccer uniform, for those not aware) and his european co-hosts’ reactions did not disappoint.

From the soccercirclejerk community on Reddit: Alex Lalas just called James Corden a “full kit wanker” on live TV. Top punditry!

Explore this post and more from the soccercirclejerk community

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"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

Dublin-born Cape Verde defender Pico Lopes was offered a slot in the national side over LinkedIn. Accepted the second time because the first invitation was in Portuguese „which i didn’t speak”

It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.

Wrote up something that's been bugging me about agent skills distribution... they get shared like npm packages but that mental model breaks down for the most common types of skills (workflows) paulswail.com/agent-skills...

Agent skills don't travel well — Paul Swail

Agent skill distribution has a fundamental tension baked in: workflow is personal, but the tooling treats skills like dependencies.

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Very interesting @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece this morning - how much value AI is creating is exactly the right question. The evidence from coders here suggests it’s so far creating a lot of extra output - 290% more files, 30% more software releases - but no extra valuable outputs (app downloads)

How much value is AI really creating?

Eye-opening changes to the speed and volume of work are not always translating into genuine productivity

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S03E04 Sarah Wells techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @sarahjwells.bsky.social joins @nickselby.com and @cpswan.net to talk about the lessons learned from her decade at the Financial Times, and their journey to implementing microservices...

Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 3 E4: Sarah Wells

Chris and Nick talk to Sarah Wells

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You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Forget Wordle. Play small caged mammal on the run. www.ft.com/content/dad4...

small caged mammal on the run

in the grim darkness of the near future, small caged mammal

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Given the recent burst of activity around enterprise pricing and contracts, I think April 2026 was the month when both OpenAI and Anthropic found product-market fit simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...