The Hallway Track

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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

datasette 1.0a32

Simon Willison · May 31, 2026

Datasette 1.0a32 is a minor bugfix release fixing write-query and base_url issues.

“A minor bugfix release.”
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

Simon Willison · May 31, 2026

AI coding agents make spinning up abandoned side projects frictionless, creating a serious attention and discipline problem.

“It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends.”
Quoting Karen Kwok for Reuters Breakingviews

Simon Willison · May 31, 2026

Anthropic calculates 'run-rate revenue' via a formula that may overstate true annualized sales.

“Use the last 28 days of sales from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13.”
Claude Code can destroy your database

No Priors · May 30, 2026

Existing security tools lack context to govern AI coding agents that may autonomously delete production databases.

“if cloud code is working on an unrelated task and suddenly thinks that maybe the right thing to do is to delete our database and recreate it, maybe we don't want that to happen”
How we contain Claude across products

Simon Willison · May 30, 2026

Anthropic published detailed documentation of how it sandboxes Claude agents across its products.

“if credentials never enter the sandbox, they can't be exfiltrated, regardless of whether the cause is a user, a model finding a “creative” path, or an attacker.”
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

Simon Willison · May 30, 2026

Open source maintainer Chad Whitacre is quitting tech and open source, citing AI as the last straw.

“My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish.”
Quoting Daniel Jalkut

Simon Willison · May 30, 2026

A pithy take that both AI critics and AI boosters hold overly extreme positions.

“My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.”
Continual Learning Explained in 60 Seconds | What's The Tea?

LangChain · May 30, 2026

Continual learning lets AI agents update their own prompts, skills, and tools over time from feedback.

“continual learning is when you give the agent the ability to update itself over time, say it's prompts, subagents or skills”
Introducing Work IQ in the IQ Series

Microsoft Developer (Build) · May 29, 2026

Microsoft introduces Work IQ, co-pilot-level intelligence across every M365 app, agent, and workflow.

“Work IQ is the co-pilot level intelligence available in every app, agent, and workflow.”
The forgotten developer who saved JavaScript...

Fireship · May 29, 2026

Jeremy Ashkenas's underscore.js helped transform JavaScript into a respected language.

“But unlike everyone else who had JavaScript Stockholm syndrome, Jeremy had the audacity to think he could fix it.”
Gemini co-leads on project origins and what's next

Google Developers (Google I/O) · May 29, 2026

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, focused on coding and agentic capabilities.

“coding capabilities and agentic experiences are defining what it means to experience AI”