# Posts

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

- [DeepSeek restrictions reach inside the tools](https://anth.us/articles/deepseek-restrictions-inside-the-tools/index.md): DHS's DeepSeek restrictions reach third-party tools, too. A separate poisoned-model experiment shows why knowing whose models are inside matters. (2026-10-19)
- [Pi 1.0, and the Durable Agent We're Building on It](https://anth.us/articles/pi-1-0-and-pi-durable/index.md): 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. (2026-10-02)
- [Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass](https://anth.us/articles/text-as-image-lensvlm/index.md): 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. (2026-09-24)
- [Procedural Film: Movies Drawn in Code](https://anth.us/articles/procedural-film/index.md): 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. (2026-09-23)
- [The Package Registry Became a Data Channel](https://anth.us/articles/rubygems-agent-data-channel/index.md): 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. (2026-09-12)
- [The Compute Is Already Paid For](https://anth.us/articles/desert-ant-little-brains/index.md): 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. (2026-09-10)
- [Chad Fowler: the regeneration test](https://anth.us/articles/regeneration-test/index.md): The marginal value of creating software is dropping toward zero. Solid solutions architecture is what still pays. (2026-09-07)
- [The agent software factory is throttling up](https://anth.us/articles/agent-software-factory-is-throttling-up/index.md): The agent software factory is throttling up (2026-09-04)
- [Looking around is enough](https://anth.us/articles/looking-around-is-enough/index.md): A web beacon is a thing you fetch that acts because you fetched it. GitSpawn is the same trick, one layer under the model. (2026-09-03)
- [Chad Fowler: SaaS isn't dead. Sameness is.](https://anth.us/articles/saas-isnt-dead-sameness-is/index.md): Chad Fowler: SaaS isn't dead. Sameness is. (2026-09-02)
- [Git in the file, or the file in Git](https://anth.us/articles/git-in-the-file/index.md): 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. (2026-09-01)
- [Sol is the hot kid in town](https://anth.us/articles/sol-coming-out-on-top/index.md): Sol is the hot kid in the mixed-model room lately. The other models keep agreeing with it. (2026-08-31)

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