Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Plus One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, and a big new LLM release
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Plus Opus 5, Kimi K3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, and Anthropic got caught accidentally hacking other companies too!
OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
And a fireside chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Plus reverse-engineering Grok Build, Doom in SQLite, and how Codex generates pets
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
Plus sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
I have a lot to say about Anthropic's new Mythos-class model