I interviewed @trq212 and @_catwu from the Claude Code team at @aiDotEngineer a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/ca…↗

You just hired a million bad employees. AI was supposed to replace human labor. It did the opposite. For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software. And AI is creating more jobs than it eliminates. --- Technology has always solved one problem by creating a…↗

Pi's Edit Tool Thread on pi's edit tool since that came up in discussions at @aiDotEngineer, in part in relation to some people seeing edit failures even on SOTA anthropic models. pi's edit tool is intentionally boring and it is not modeled after one provider's preferred edit o…↗

Evals: the strategic IP that will define the next era of AI We've spoken to hundreds of execs in the past few months, and we're hearing a clear refrain: "AI isn't delivering ROI yet, but we're all in, so we need to figure it out." Execs know there's no going back. But their AI…↗