Features
The stories the weekly cannot hold.
One event or one argument, reported at length: what was said, in order and in the speakers' own words; what the code says; what is settled, what is not, and what would settle it.
2026-08-23 / Codex, Claude Code
The Body, Not the Pencil
Sixteen months of the Codex tree show a division of labor being drawn: models take the ambiguous judgments, hand-written rules and OS sandboxes keep the hard boundaries, and the harness around both gets thicker, not thinner. What OpenAI deletes, keeps, and grows is a map of where every agent builder's footing moved.
2026-08-23 / omp, Pi Coding Agent
Oh My Pi, without the Pi
OMP's maintainers are rewriting their Pi fork in Rust on an orphan branch, with CPython for plugins and the upstream gone. Pi's maintainers dispute the reasons given. The tree supports both halves.