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Headless everything for personal AI

Headless everything for personal AI

Headless everything for personal AI Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services directly (honestly); and headless services are quicker and more dependable for the personal AIs than having them click round a GUI with a bot-controlled mouse. Evidently Marc Benioff thinks so too: Welcome Salesforce Headless 360: No Browser Required! Our API is the UI. Entire Salesforce & Agentforce…

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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to Claude 3 in July 2024 and it's always interesting to see how the system prompt evolves as they publish new models. Opus 4.7 shipped the other day (April 16, 2026) with a Claude.ai system prompt update since Opus 4.6 (February 5, 2026). I had Claude Code take the Markdown version of their system prompts, break that up into separate…

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Claude system prompts as a git timeline

Claude system prompts as a git timeline

Research: Claude system prompts as a git timeline Anthropic publish the system prompts for Claude chat and make that page available as Markdown. I had Claude Code turn that page into separate files for each model and model family with fake git commit dates to enable browsing the changes via the GitHub commit view. I used this to write my own detailed notes on the changes between Opus 4.6 and 4.7. Tags: system-prompts, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms

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Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool

Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool

Agentic Engineering Patterns > Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot. First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a week containing content copied-and-pasted from my blog. I'm effectively using Substack as a lightweight way to allow people to subscribe to my blog via email. I generate the newsletter with my blog-to-newsletter tool - an HTML and JavaScript app that fetches my latest content from this…

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Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year

Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year

This year's PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, California this year, the first time PyCon US has come to the West Coast since Portland, Oregon in 2017 and the first time in California since Santa Clara in 2013. If you're based in California this is a great opportunity to catch up with the Python community, meet a whole lot of interesting people…

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datasette 1.0a28

datasette 1.0a28

Release: datasette 1.0a28 I was upgrading Datasette Cloud to 1.0a27 and discovered a nasty collection of accidental breakages caused by changes in that alpha. This new alpha addresses those directly: Fixed a compatibility bug introduced in 1.0a27 where execute_write_fn() callbacks with a parameter name other than conn were seeing errors. (#2691) The database.close() method now also shuts down the write connection for that database. New datasette.close() method for closing down all databases and…

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llm-anthropic 0.25

llm-anthropic 0.25

Release: llm-anthropic 0.25 New model: claude-opus-4.7, which supports thinking_effort: xhigh. #66 New thinking_display and thinking_adaptive boolean options. thinking_display summarized output is currently only available in JSON output or JSON logs. Increased default max_tokens to the maximum allowed for each model. No longer uses obsolete structured-outputs-2025-11-13 beta header for older models. Tags: llm, anthropic, claude

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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning's two big model releases - Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Alibaba and Claude Opus 4.7 from Anthropic. Here's the Qwen 3.6 pelican, generated using this 20.9GB Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_S.gguf quantized model by Unsloth, running on my MacBook Pro M5 via LM Studio (and the llm-lmstudio plugin) - transcript here: And here's one I got from Anthropic's…

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datasette.io news preview

datasette.io news preview

Tool: datasette.io news preview The datasette.io website has a news section built from this news.yaml file in the underlying GitHub repository. The YAML format looks like this: - date: 2026-04-15 body: |- [Datasette 1.0a27](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a27-2026-04-15) changes how CSRF protection works in a way that simplifies form and API integration, and introduces a new `RenameTableEvent` for when a table is renamed by a SQL query. - date: 2026-03-18 body: |- ... This…

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