Pocock plans with notecards, Pi 0.86 rewrites the transcript, JevBench ranks the clones, Anthropic's IPO slips to November

A quiet Saturday with one honest confession at the centre: Matt Pocock spent weeks trying to make agents better at planning his course, then did it with notecards, pen, paper and scissors and found that the slow medium let him make decisions at human speed, while the agent distracted him, jumped to conclusions and drowned his thinking in commentary. Armin Ronacher asked what people struggle with most in AI-assisted engineering, called Sunil Pai's senior engineer death spiral mandatory reading, and warned that Pi 0.86.0 may regress because mid-conversation system messages now live in the transcript. Theo is tired of being asked for a harness t