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Original: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far/
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Language: en
Summary
Simon Willison’s annotated slides and notes for his closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in September 2026 walk month by month through what happened in LLMs from November 2025 to September 2026. It covers the point at which coding agents became reliable enough for daily use, the rise of OpenClaw and the “Claw” category of personal agents, StrongDM’s software factory rules, the coined terms Deep Blue, AI mania and tokenmaxxing, “Fable class” models that solve well-defined problems by brute force, and a run of security incidents attributed to AI labs’ agents in training. It closes on the observation that with coding agents the work does not get easier, engineers just get faster.