Weeknotes #66 (February 7, 2026)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I worked on
- I've been slowly working on a v2 of my Pokemon TCG App where I am expanding it to any card game on TCGPlayer via TCGCSV. I'm using Convex as the database and trying out Tanstack Start for the backing framework as I wanted to get back into trying React after not using it for many years.
Things I consumed
- Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex were both released within minutes of each other this past week. Both are incremental improvements on their previous versions, but nothing groundbreaking in the models itself. Claude now supports a agent delegation toolchain via their Agent Teams feature (note this is token intensive, so unlikely something I am going to try with the $20/month plan I am spending with Claude). On the other hand, Codex is OpenAI's testing 25% faster at inference than their previous model. I do personally want to try out Codex someday as I do like some of the UX choices they're making in their GUI application which is moving more and more left of an IDE and into an agent-first application.
- 404 Media reported on a series of security vulnerabilities in Moltbook that I discussed last week, and the culprit, unsecure Supabase installs.
- I miss thinking hard is a dive into how as engineers using AI, if you let it, your critical thinking skills can quickly fall off.
- Mitchell Hashimoto (Terraform & Ghostty creator) wrote about how he's been adopting usage of AI in his dev workflows. Definitely appreciate the slow roll into it rather than completely letting it take control day one.
- GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team is a post critiquing the shortcomings of GitHub's CI platform. I definitely agree with the author's take specifically around the package management of Actions themselves being extremely poor: "Ah yes, the GitHub Actions Marketplace. The npm of CI. A bazaar of community-maintained actions of varying quality, most of which are shell scripts with a Dockerfile and a dream."
- Tom Dale, the Ember.js creator, posted about how he's seeing an uptick in mental health issues as a result of AI and I feel it is likely a mixture of the AI tooling moving rapidly as well as the unstable job market at least in the United States over the past few years that is resulting in a feeling of unstability across the industry. I'd definitely be lying if I said I was completely fine. I am grounded that AI isn't going to take all software jobs away, but I do have a concern for how younger devs are going to be able to get into the industry and be upskilled if more senior devs don't have the time / effort to train junior devs due to various constraints in their jobs.