Weeknotes #68 (February 21, 2026)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Not too much to cover as I was sick for the majority of the week.
Things I consumed
- Simon Willison this week brought back up what he's calling Deep Blue or "the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work". The tools available can be useful, but I feel a lot of people are concerned about people who are extrapolating that they can do more and buy into the hype which can result in many issues down the road.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 was released this week, where it according to Anthropic is nearing the quality of Opus 4.5 at sonnet prices ($3 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens). That said, the tokens generated has increased compared to 4.5 according to some people's initial testing so it may not go as far with the paid subscriptions from Anthropic. That said, this is my default model of choice currently so I am likely to be testing it over the next few weeks and see how it handles in my workloads.