✍️ I just published "Best resources to learn about data and distributed systems" Happy learning 😊 #data #distributedsystem pierrezemb.fr/posts/distsys-…

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Me, denied by FoundationDB's simulation because my PoC wasn't reboot-proof 🤯

Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who. Read all about it on the Doctor Who website ➡️ bbc.in/4vzxDuI

Proudly announcing PgDog's $5.5M seed round from @BasisSet, @ycombinator, @pioneer_fund, and others. Running Postgres in prod is hard. PgDog is a modern connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. It can be deployed anywhere and works with all Postgres hosts, incl. RDS Postgres, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Supabase, Neon, etc. Some cool numbers: 2M queries per second in prod, 20TB sharded, 50 open source contributors. 1 year down; here's to 10 more.

Wrote up my initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 - it has a big model smell: slow, expensive and capable of crunching through pretty much everything I threw at it simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9…

Fable 5 is the biggest step up I’ve felt in our models since Opus 4.5 back in November. After 4.5 came out I uninstalled my IDE when I realized that I’d been doing 100% of my coding in a terminal for a few weeks. With Fable, it’s felt like Claude has stepped up from being a coding agent to a thought and design partner in building the product. Fable has judgement, taste, and dimensionality in a way that previous models didn’t, leading me to trust it more with the most complex work. I think the first time I had this realization was when I asked Fable to debug something. It is the first model I have used that was so methodical and precise, taking measurements and adding logs then verifying that it truly fixed the issue before declaring victory. There’s nothing in claude code’s prompting telling the model to do that, it’s just part of its personality. It really has this “big model smell” that I haven’t felt before.

So I was totally sold on GPT 5.5. Solely on the basis of what I saw tonight with Fable, I will start to use again Claude extensively, probably as the main model as long as Fable is accessible. It's not just very capable, it performs organized steps and have deep understanding.

Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.

Introducing your Artemis III crew: NASA astronauts @AstroKomrade, @Astro_AndreD, and Frank Rubio and @ESA astronaut @Astro_Luca.

Claude Fable 5 is here. New model generation, new way of working. Here's how to get started in Claude Code and on the Claude Platform: 🧵

Une légende renaît. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time fera son arrivée cette année sur #NintendoSwitch2.

I just published 'Designing Fakes That Prove Correctness' ✍️ The blog also has a new theme, and it hides a quorum easter-egg: flip to single-replica reads and see what it was protecting you from 👀 pierrezemb.fr/posts/designin…

[new blog post] A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agentic Data Systems muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/20…

"Sous le capot d’une base de données analytique" avec Sylvain Wallez. Découvrez comment une requête devient un résultat en explorant parser, optimisation et exécution. #SunnyTech2026 #DataAnalytics

The right move for 2026 is to invest into correctness

[blog] A new era for software testing: antirez.com/news/168

AI makes good programmers 10x better: you can easily understand and contribute to more codebases and actually make an impact. AI makes bad programmers 10x worse: you generate loads of garbage code and tests that everyone else has to understand and wade through.

📍 FinistDevs - lundi 8 juin - 18h30 - @ZenikaBrest Une première pour nous : un talk en anglais avec @brjavaman, Java Champion et fondateur de SouJava. Au programme : carrière dev, progression senior, impact, réputation, projets. Inscription : meetup.com/finistdevs/events…

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors. Available today at the same price.

Welcome Opus 4.8 👋