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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last six months of developments in LLMs in five minutes. # Six months is a pretty convenient time period to cover, because it captures what I've been calling the November 2025 inflection point. November was a critical month in LLMs, especially for coding. # For one…

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Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong

Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong

This post was originally published on The Nuanced Perspective and is being reposted here with the authors’ permission. Agent skills are everywhere right now. Atlassian built them into Rovo so agents can automatically triage Jira tickets, draft Confluence pages, and route service requests without anyone typing a prompt. Canva and Figma use them so Claude […]

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GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them as part of Project Glasswing. Now the Government Digital Service have joined the conversation with AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector, published May 14th. Their key recommendation: Keep open by default. Making everything private…

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Warelay -> OpenClaw

Warelay -> OpenClaw

In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the answer, according to the Git history of the OpenClaw README, is: Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLAWDBOT → Clawdbot → Moltbot →🦞 OpenClaw Or in detail (the output from the tool): 2025-11-24T11:23:15+01:00 16dfc1a # Warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio)…

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Quoting Julia Evans

Quoting Julia Evans

[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (“centering is impossible”) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what “centering” means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many…

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