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On September 27, 2026, Simon Willison published 2026 in LLMs (so far) — an annotated slide deck and essay originating from his closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress (WWC26) North America in San Jose. Known across the developer ecosystem for his hands-on, pragmatic evaluations of generative AI, Willison compiles nine months of breakneck progress into a cohesive timeline of model breakthroughs, security inflection points, and shifts in day-to-day software development. ...

Subscribe Most mid-career professionals are asking similar questions as AI changes how work is done: What remains valuable? What still compounds? What gets automated away? Lines of Defence is a personal writing space that explores those questions through the lens of careers, judgement, and learning over time. This page is not a curriculum or a recommended sequence. It simply shows how different ideas on the site relate to one another, so you can follow what interests you. ...