Keep pulling the thread on Simon Willison.
Simon Willison predicts that by the end of 2026, it is possible that 50% of software engineers worldwide will have AI write the vast majority (e.g., 95%) of their code.
Simon Willison predicts a major AI disaster, which he calls the "Challenger disaster of AI," will occur due to the industry's increasing use of AI systems in unsafe ways.
The release of GPT 5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 in November 2025 marked an inflection point where AI coding agents became reliable enough to correctly follow instructions most of the time.
Security company StrongDM is experimenting with a "dark factory" software development model where engineers do not write or read the code, which is instead generated and tested by AI agents.
OpenAI and Anthropic have developed specialized security models capable of finding vulnerabilities, which are not released to the public and are only available to select security researchers.
Anthropic used its specialized AI security models to discover approximately 100 potential vulnerabilities in Firefox, which it then responsibly disclosed to Mozilla for remediation.
The demand for a personal AI assistant is so high that hundreds of thousands of users adopted OpenClaw despite its significant security risks and difficult setup process.
The rare Kalkapore parrot in New Zealand, with only 250 individuals remaining, is having a successful breeding season in 2026 after four years with no new chicks born.
Cloudflare and Shopify planned to hire 1,000 interns each during 2025, citing that AI assistants reduced intern onboarding time from one month to about one week.
OpenAI's GPT 5.4 model is considered on par with or potentially better than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 for coding tasks.
Data labeling companies are purchasing old GitHub repositories of human-written code from before 2022 to use as high-quality training data for their models.
The open-source project OpenClaw went from its first line of code in November 2025 to being featured in a Super Bowl ad in approximately 3.5 months.