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Short posts from Anthus on what shipped, what we read, and what changed in AI this week.

2026-10-02#posts
Earendil shipped Pi 1.0 and an experimental companion, Pi Durable. Pi is one of the agents Kanbus dispatches tasks to, and we like Pi Durable so much that we're building a durable Pi agent platform into Chatticus.
2026-09-24#posts#reading
Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass: LensVLM compresses text by showing it to a vision-language model as an image, then opens the original text where the answer lives.
2026-09-23#posts
People are making films with Opus 5.5 that contain no image or audio files at all, every frame drawn on a canvas and every sound synthesised in JavaScript, and there's an open-source agent skill that does it for you.
2026-09-12#posts
The Package Registry Became a Data Channel: RubyHack traced a RubyGems package flood through automatic documentation builds and republished web data, while RubyGems says the role of AI agents remains unverified.
2026-09-10#posts
The AI industry is spending $450 billion on data centers this year. Desert Ant Labs' bet: a billion phones, tablets, and laptops already have the compute sitting idle in people's hands — and when inference is free, you stop rationing which messages get checked.
2026-09-07#posts
The marginal value of creating software is dropping toward zero. Solid solutions architecture is what still pays.
2026-09-04#posts
The agent software factory is throttling up
2026-09-03#posts
A web beacon is a thing you fetch that acts because you fetched it. GitSpawn is the same trick, one layer under the model.
2026-09-02#posts
Chad Fowler: SaaS isn't dead. Sameness is.
2026-09-01#posts
Two ways to put Git on agent data. Files in Git, or Git inside the database file. You don't need SQLite just because Beads had one.
2026-08-31#posts
Sol is the hot kid in the mixed-model room lately. The other models keep agreeing with it.
2026-08-27#posts
Pollen Robotics shipped a $399 open-source biped with seven RL policies in the box, MuJoCo training on your machine, and a sim-to-real path that actually works.